These reviews get into ways to address (shed) small subsections of a transcription.
Archives for June 2018
How do you handle a phrase that’s too fast for your current technical ability?
Do you ever come across a phrase or horn part that you feel you’ll never be able to play because of it’s fingering and speed?
Listening Lab: Using Straight 8th Notes to Make Your Lines Swing Hard (Ryan Kisor’s solo on “I Think My Wife Is A Hat”)
You know those medium swing tempos where it’s somehow so difficult to get your 8th notes to swing? This solo offers an ideal example of one solution.
Use Simple Triads to Get Away from Root-Based Improvising
Guide tone lines and triads are a concrete way to sound good over any chord changes, especially difficult, non-functional harmony.
Review of the “He Had a Hat” transcription challenge submissions
These reviews get into what’s creating that cool sound over the dominant chord, using alternate (side) C, and what to do when the transcription challenge is too fast for your current ability.