My review of our December transcription challenge. Great job, everyone!
Members Play Sonny Stitt’s Solo on “Night Letter”
My review of our November transcription challenge. Fantastic work, everyone!
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.
Ideas for playing over Tune Up (and is it OK to steal ideas from other players?)
You’re working on a tune and get bored with your solos. What next? And should you feel bad for borrowing ideas from recorded solos?
Player Problems (4 of 4): Using Dynamics to Bring Vocabulary to Life + Thelonious Monk’s Alternate Rhythm Changes
As we wrap up Ottis’ rhythm changes solo, he hits on a great dominant cycle that Thelonious Monk used heavily. I also dig in more on using air and dynamics to turn what is a pile of great vocabulary into phrases that have more swing and impact.
Player Problems (3 of 4): Sonny Stitt, V7b9, and Chromatic Turnarounds
As we continue combing through Ottis’ excellent solo, we’re uncovering some hip harmonic moves over Rhythm Changes. The next step is for you to try these out with a play-along and eventually on the gig.
Player Problems (1 of 4): Ghosting, half-tonguing and “jazz” articulation
This mini-series addresses some common issues we all face—articulation, phrasing, vocabulary—through a phrase-by-phrase review of a student’s performance.
Diminished Chords: Using Inverted Major Triads for a Fresh Sound (5 lessons)
Once you begin to “see” the chords this way, it opens up new doors…new hallways of ideas.
Sonny Stitt’s Solo on Tune Up
In this lesson I describe exactly what parts of this track are crucial, and HOW I went about digesting it