Freshen up your playing AND instantly improve your medium-swing 8th notes with this simple mental trick (and one slight rhythmic shift).
By Bob 14 Comments
Ever feel like you’re just not “putting it all together”? This exercise will help you get away from thinking note to note, chord to chord, and instead focus on a phrase, delivered with style.
This palm key exercise was given to me by George Garzone, who in turn got it from Stan Getz as a young man. Use it to clean up technical glitches in the high register of your horn.
Looping short phrases slowly and repeatedly can make any difficult passage less daunting. You might even lull yourself into a “flow” state.
I learned so much about nuance and playing inside a “popish” context from Branford’s performance on this song.
Applying a new piece of vocabulary in this fashion will help you quickly absorb it, and know when to use it.
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