or Being Yourself Interesting experience recently. I spent a fair bit of time working on live sound and recording for a band with another pianist (a really very good one), then went straight out to do a gig of my…
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This is Just a Four-Note Solo…
…built upon the same four notes, Other notes are bound to follow but not far from those four notes, Now the new notes are the consequence of the ones we’ve just been through, And you get more structure in your solo…
Pausing for Breath
Here’s another video. Apologies for writing less recently, but it’s that ho-ho-ho time of year and I’ve got other things on. Anyway, this video is a stone-cold classic. Here’s Bud Powell in Copenhagen doing Anthropology (not, as a friend of…
Tagged with: Anthropology, Bud Powell, jazz piano, rhythm changes, soloing
Posted in a) Soloing Scales & Modes, c) Musicianship
Posted in a) Soloing Scales & Modes, c) Musicianship
The Secret of Jazz? Mathematics
Forget technical studies, listening to the greats, learning licks, advanced harmony, playing out, networking and “living the life”. Well, don’t forget them at all, actually. But those are the obvious bits, and there’s a very simple principle that most learners completely…
Tagged with: comping, heads, jazz, practice, soloing, tunes
Posted in a) Soloing Scales & Modes, b) Harmony & Comping, c) Musicianship
Posted in a) Soloing Scales & Modes, b) Harmony & Comping, c) Musicianship
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