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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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.…
Monky Business
Some thoughts on whole-tone scales, altered scales and passing tones. Ah, Thelonius Sphere Monk (certainly no square). A very influential composer and performer. He was once described by a hip journo as “the high beast of prebop” (clever Spoonerism or…
Tagged with: altered scale, bebop, jazz, passing tones, Thelonius Monk, whole-tone scale
Posted in a) Soloing Scales & Modes
Posted in a) Soloing Scales & Modes
Bebop Part II – All the Exercises You Can Eat
Bebop is ultimately all about being able to play any chromatic tone on any chord. Obviously, if we just play chromatically with free abandon, the harmony goes out the window. Theory dictates that we place strong tones on strong beats…
Tagged with: arpeggios, bebop, chromatic passing tone, exercises, jazz, scales
Posted in a) Soloing Scales & Modes
Posted in a) Soloing Scales & Modes
Bebop Part I – Perpetual Motion Exercises
Bebop is much more than just one particular style, it is pretty much the “grammar” of modern jazz, and bebop “licks” are not so much cliches as essential elements of speech within the jazz language. Here are some bebop exercises…
Tagged with: bebop, Charlie Parker, Chord progression, exercises, jazz, theory, turnarounds
Posted in a) Soloing Scales & Modes
Posted in a) Soloing Scales & Modes
Transcription: Bill Evans on Love for Sale
This is a transcription of the two-chorus solo that pianist Bill Evans takes with the Miles Davis Sextet on Love for Sale. It’s taken from the Columbia recording originally entitled Jazz Track, although these days you’re probably more likely to…
Tagged with: bebop, Bill Evans, Cole Porter, jazz, Love for Sale, Miles Davis, piano, transcription
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Posted in h) Transcriptions
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