Can’t figure out how to go from practicing your scales to actually playing them in your solos? Give this exercise a try.
Case study: scales in thirds in a Stan Getz solo (over “500 Miles High”)
Hear Getz utilize this concept inside a solo + my suggestions for how to add this to your playing.
How to loop a section in the iRealPro app
An extremely useful tool to focus your practice on specific sections of songs or chord progressions.
SBA vs Mark VI – what’s the difference and why choose one over the other?
Bob: “How do you feel about the comparison between your MK VI and Balanced Action? So many of the young greats have gone ‘back’ to the balanced, or super balanced.”
Transitioning from studying music in college to playing music professionally
“What things should I do (not do) as I leave college and head off into the “real world” to play music for a career?”
Review of the “Sonny Stitt on I’ll Remember April” transcription challenge submissions
These reviews get into ways to address (shed) small subsections of a transcription.
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.
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