Chord Exercises 3 – Dominant Descending (from flat 7)
Sharpen your technique while familiarizing yourself with dominant 7th chords throughout your instrument.
Chord Exercises 2 – Augmented Descending
Sharpen your technique while familiarizing yourself with major thirds all over your instrument.
Chord Exercises 1 – Diminished Descending
Sharpen your technique while familiarizing yourself with minor thirds all over your instrument.
Low Register Mechanism Exercise: F sharp to C sharp
Strengthen your lower register technique with this compact exercise.
How to Do an Altissimo Glissando
How to get that really cool upwards slur in the altissimo register. (Great for dramatic endings.)
Isolation Drills to Clean up Your Technique
Sharpen your technique by turning scales into 2-note loops. Details make the difference when it comes to building solid, clean technique.
Build Your Technique Through Tunes, Triads & Triplets (2 of 2)
Your assignment: use any song, don’t worry about speed, and experiment with different triads, inversions and shapes.
Build Your Technique Through Tunes, Triads & Triplets (1 of 2)
Your assignment after watching this: Go experiment with it today, on this tune or any tune you’re working on.
Find More Focus—and Avoid Noodling—When Practicing Changes (a Trick to Free up Brain Power)
This technique allows you to focus your attention—and intention—on a particular measure/sound/chord, without restricting you to a single “lick”.
How to play legato staccato bebop articulation, and fast!
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B Flat Overtone Series – Play Along with Bob
How to play/practice the Bb overtone series.
How to Transcribe a Fast Lick (that seems too fast to figure out)
Think you can’t transcribe? Think you can’t transcribe fast lines? Sure you can.
False Fingering for B flat
A really cool alternate fingering for high Bb favored by Chris Potter and Michael Brecker
Practicing jazz articulation – What are some good targets to aim for?
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Quick Tip: Using the Bis Bb Key
What’s better, side Bb or Bis Bb? When should you use bis?
The Ultimate Pre-Warm-Up Warm-Up
Over years of touring with little to no place to warm-up, I developed this routine to get me feeling like I’d been playing for hours.