Or is it? Here’s a recent YouTube post by Jazz Duets. Do watch it, and subscribe to Nick because he puts up some good stuff. Now then. All sorts of interesting ideas proposed and some useful approaches spun off. But…
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Negative Harmony, Gulp
or I’m talking to the man in the mirror I suppose it had to happen… Thank you TH (aka “confused of Bristol”) for asking about the en vogue topic of negative harmony. I completely understand your confusion. Ah, I do…
Camels and Robots
Or putting rhythm sections out of business… Nah, of course, I’d never do such a thing. There’s no substitute for the real deal. But then practising isn’t the real deal either and I was asked a while ago about how…
Tagged with: Band in a Box, camels, Caravan, jazz, piano
Posted in a) Soloing Scales & Modes, c) Musicianship, e) Rants & Ramblings
Posted in a) Soloing Scales & Modes, c) Musicianship, e) Rants & Ramblings
Willie Thomas and Not-Quite-Pentatonics
Hullo jazz fans. Apologies for the radio silence, I’ve been driving myself nuts on a film project. I’ve found time for a little bit of teaching too, and I’m always on the lookout for new approaches – some just click…
Tagged with: jazz trumpet, jazzeveryone.com, Willie Thomas
Posted in a) Soloing Scales & Modes, i) Reviews
Posted in a) Soloing Scales & Modes, i) Reviews
Crystal Metheny
The point of this week’s post isn’t confined to Metheny tunes – it’s just that there are a couple we’ve happened to play recently that illustrate it nicely. The two tunes I’ll reference are Song for Bilbao and Question &…
Tagged with: modal jazz, Pat Metheny, Question & Answer, Song for Bilbao
Posted in a) Soloing Scales & Modes, c) Musicianship, e) Rants & Ramblings
Posted in a) Soloing Scales & Modes, c) Musicianship, e) Rants & Ramblings
Bebop Part III – Find the Lady
I’ve admitted before that I’m not really much of a licker. But there are some gestures that are more than licks, they’re essential idiomatic vocabulary. Thanks to SG for pointing out that I’d missed this one from my bebop posts.…
Beatomania
A very good YouTube video resource here. Rick Beato is an Atlanta-based jazz, classical and rock musician turned engineer and producer. He’s just as much at home talking about Allan Holdsworth or Pearl Jam as Stravinsky or Hans Zimmer. He knows his AKG C414 from his…
Augmented Sixths or Tritone Subs?
I was recently reminded of my dusty school days when someone asked me how jazz uses augmented sixth chords. Oh, I do so love these invitations to give a fag-packet explanation and get myself into trouble… I suppose the simplest…
Funky Chunks & Clunky Chunks
…and dominantsy divey… Right, I was beer-deep in a chat with a musician the other day who was a bit down about the results he was getting out of 7b9 chords. They sometimes just sounded – well, tame, he felt.…
Trane Spotting
I was playing one of those tunes the other day – the ones beloved of singers, the ones that go round the same II V I seemingly forever. Of course, I kept things pretty tight for the head, but then…
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