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This week is a topic that we have touched on before but I would like to revisit it again. Learning to play long lines through dense changes is not easy and takes a lot of practice and thought. Rhythm changes are one of the best examples of chord changes that come at you quickly and…
This week we talk about turning an unproductive part of our lives into a more rewarding experience. Would you like to support the creators of this podcast? If so, please head over to our Patreon page and show your love by donating $3 or more each month. You get incredible benefits and this keeps the podcast coming…
This week is all about something I’ve been sharing with my students a lot lately. We traditionally teach the blues scale or the minor pentatonic to beginning students and use them ourselves when we are searching for that traditional, ‘bluesy’ sound. The problem with this scale, in my opinion, is that it actually contains a…
This week is all about another lesson I took from hanging with Joe Lovano. Do you know the history of this music? WANT THE PDF THAT GOES ALONG WITH THIS EPISODE?? Head over to our Patreon page and when you donate $3 or more a month you get this PDF and every other. We will also be…
Stanley Turrentine was truly one of the best saxophone players of our time. His ability to cross genres and even make people who weren’t jazz fans perk up at the sound of his horn is nothing short of amazing. This week we are taking an 8 bar phrase from his solo on The Sunny Side…
