Learn how to play new sounds over diminished chords and apply your technical practice to this song.
Transcription Challenge Review: Easy Living – Chet Baker Sings
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Easy Living Etude Part 1 – Chromaticizing the Turnaround
This etude highlights how having facility with triads and seventh chords can help you create a coherent and flowing solo.
Listening Lab: Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan on “Easy Living”
Two fantastic examples of playing over this beautiful ballad. The tone, lyricism, and time feel of both are top shelf.
Easy Living: Harmonic Analysis and the Elegance of the Circle of Fifths
Several moments in this chord progression are common to many standard tunes. We’ll take a look at them, and discover how the Circle of Fifths guides the ship.
Case study in phrasing a melody: Chet Baker sings “Easy Living”
Imitating this beautifully delivered melody will introduce you to subtle phrasing nuances while providing guide rails for your tone and intonation.
SSS (Slow, Straight, Slurred): A Reminder Why It Helps
Hear that tripping over myself? All that tongue getting in my way? Those 8th note lines coming out so uneven?
Members Play Harold Land’s Solo On “Joy Spring” (Bebop)
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Applying Vocabulary: Practicing the Honeysuckle Rose Lick Over Joy Spring
In this lesson, I’ll show you step-by-step how to practice applying this lick over the 6 different II-V-I progressions built in to “Joy Spring.” (And why it’s so beneficial!)
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