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2013-10-10 By Bob 2 Comments

Transcribing Not Optional: Recording with Snarky Puppy

Years of transcribing solos helped me memorize and record 12 tunes in 3 days—by ear.

2013-07-21 By Bob

How to handle adjacent chromatic 7th chords

5 ways to improve your playing over tricky chromatic changes

2013-06-01 By Bob

Blue 7

Melodic motifs, rhythmic displacement, and the Lydian dominant scale are covered in this series on the classic blues tune by Sonny Rollins.

2013-06-01 By Bob

Exercise 17 (7ths On 7) – Visual Technique for Improvisation

This exercise will get you familiar with the concept of “7th’s on 7,” or flipping a chord on its head.
This is a great technique for not only getting away from “root-based” improvising, but also
getting the important, color notes of a chord on downbeats.

2013-05-25 By Bob 13 Comments

What to Do About Wimpy High Notes

How to make those palm keys speak as naturally as the middle range of your horn

2013-05-19 By Bob 8 Comments

Sidestepping: Sliding out—and Back in—to a Chord

A short phrase moving chromatically through ii-V’s

2013-05-11 By Bob Leave a Comment

I Should Care: Learning Tunes from Multiple Sources

Frustrated because the information doesn’t seem to come together for you?

2013-05-01 By Bob

Odd Meter Bebop

In this lesson series, I’ll show you how to dive into the world of playing in odd meters. You’ll learn how to feel time in 7/8, and then how to practice applying increasingly challenging pieces of bebop vocabulary in this time feel.

2013-04-26 By Bob 47 Comments

Transcribing in Real Time: Step-By-Step How I Learn a Solo By Ear (Chris Potter on “Everything Happens to Me”)

I walk you through my exact transcribing process, in real time, so you can hear exactly what I’m taking from the material.