Do you always sound good in the practice room? You may be seriously hurting your ability to learn new things….
This week we continue building toward our tune of the month episode by looking at a very common harmonic device used in many tunes. The IV to iv progression appears very often toward the end of progressions and we need to be able to handle this important movement as improvisers. In this episode we talk…
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We concentrate a lot on 7ths when it comes to playing jazz. But what do we do when we see a major chord that has no 7th?? This is a tricky thing for us improvisers in certain cases. I know that I had trouble doing this before some of my teachers clarified it for me….
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This month’s tune of the month and etude are a carry over from last week’s episode where we talked about a phrase from the great Charlie Parker composition, Ornithology. In this episode, we are going to explore a very specific melodic device based on triplets and surrounding chord tones. We are using this particular set…
