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Mastering the Blues Scale Volume 2: Dominant Chords
“Just play the blues scale!” All across the country, you hear this advice given in every band room. Students sit with blank looks on their faces as band directors tell them to use this or that blues scale on their solo. The advice usually doesn’t go much further Read More…
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I have had a number of people who have wanted to become members of my site but who don’t want to sign up through paypal. I have decided to set up this page for them so that they can purchase a 3,6 or 12 month membership just by using a credit card. Once I receive Read More…
This is a lesson that was requested by a member on my site. It is on the tune “Sunny” by Bobby Hebb.
This is a great tune that has a cool blues feel to it. I show you how to navigate the changes by using a simple blues scale approach and then adding what I call Read More…
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This is Lesson 1 in a series of lessons for the tenor saxophone.
In this series, I am focusing on improvising over a 12 bar blues form. I start at the very beginning and teach you how to learn the chords in a blues progression. From there we move on to improvising using one simple blues Read More…
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This is Lesson 1 in a series of lessons for the alto saxophone.
In this series, I am focusing on improvising over a 12 bar blues form. I start at the very beginning and teach you how to learn the chords in a blues progression. From there we move on to improvising using one simple blues Read More…
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Mastering the Blues Scale Volume 1: Minor Chords
“Just play the blues scale!” All across the country, you hear this advice given in every band room. Students sit with blank looks on their faces as band directors tell them to use this or that blues scale on their solo. The advice usually doesn’t go much further Read More…
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I have had many requests over the last few years to do some lessons on sight reading. Sight reading is an important skill for any musician to have. Professional musicians especially need to be able to sight read at a pretty high level.
Sight reading well involves a different part of the brain than improvising and Read More…
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Most jazz improvisation teachers will teach on 4 note groupings at one point or another. I had a few teachers as I was growing up that taught me this way. I remember studying out of “Patterns for Jazz” when I was a kid and working on 4 note groupings in every key. I also studied Read More…
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Most jazz improvisation teachers will teach on 4 note groupings at one point or another. I had a few teachers as I was growing up that taught me this way. I remember studying out of “Patterns for Jazz” when I was a kid and working on 4 note groupings in every key. I also studied Read More…
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Learning to be a great jazz improviser is a life long journey. If you love jazz and are drawn to the vision of standing in front of a crowd as you improvise a great jazz solo, then you are more than likely ready to take your first steps to get there. The question I hear Read More…
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