Rhythmic awareness and flexibility is where it’s at. Rhythm is by far the most important thing for an improviser and in this episode we talk about how you can supercharge your vocabulary work and become the most flexible musician in the room. Learning vocabulary is a fine line between sounding like yourself with influences and…
This week’s Motivation Monday is all about time management and avoiding the distractions that haunt us in everyday modern life. http://traffic.libsyn.com/seacoastadvicegivers/MOVO_7.24.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS
This week we are talking about pentatonic scales. The tough part about pentatonics are the fact that it’s a five note scale and the majority of what we play is in 2 or 4 note patterns. Our job is to turn these five note groupings into something we can use in 4/4 or 2/4. Something…
This week’s Motivation Monday is all about a jazz legend and what he taught me about hard work. http://traffic.libsyn.com/seacoastadvicegivers/MOVO_7.17.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS
This week wraps up our series on upper structures. We have already covered major seventh chords and minor seventh chords. This week we’ll focus on the dominant chord. It’s important to realize that there are so many possibilities for dominant chords when it comes to altered notes and superimposing different chords over the top. We…
This week I talk about accountability and what that means to musicians when we are usually only accountable to ourselves. http://traffic.libsyn.com/seacoastadvicegivers/MOVO_7.10.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS
