Here’s a great opportunity to focus on tone, phrasing, timing and nuance.
Improvisation Play-by-Play: Here’s Exactly What I’m Thinking as I Improvise My Way into a Standard
Here’s a captioned play-by-play of exactly what I’m thinking as I freely improvise. Halfway through, a tune pops into my head.
Q&A – Physical Warmups, Soloing with Just a Metronome, Breaking Free from Running Changes, Altissimo Glisses and More
Some of your questions from our March Q&A thread answered.
Takeaways From My Conversation With Chris Potter About Playing Standards
Chris Potter is still practicing standards from the 1930’s after all these years. You should be too.
How do you do an altissimo gliss from high F up to Bb?
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How can I accelerate mastering top tones (altissimo)?
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The Sharp 4 Half Diminished Turnaround: A Common Jazz Chord Progression and Effective Practice Tool
This is an important turnaround to be familiar with not only because it appears in some common jazz standards, but because it’s an extended series of building blocks.
Listening Lab: Charlie Parker’s beautiful melodic embellishment and ornamentation on “April In Paris”
A brilliant example of how to embellish a melody from one of the all-time masters of phrasing.
Members Play Eric Alexander’s Solo On “Four” (Hard Bop)
Outstanding work folks! Made several lesson suggestions and practice tips in this one.
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