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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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A diatonic pattern is a pattern of notes that stays within a specific key or scale. If you know a key well, then playing the diatonic pattern is just a matter of repeating the pattern as you travel through the scale. Diatonic patterns are a must for any serious student of jazz. They are valuable Read More…
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Over the last few years as I have sold many of my “Best II-V-I Pattern” books, I have received some great reviews and feedback from the books. Every once in a while I would get an email from someone who loved the books and the patterns but wasn’t ready to handle II-V-I patterns of this Read More…
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The first scale most musicians learn is the major scale. We learn it in all 12 keys up and down our instruments. Even though this is one of the first scales we learn many intermediate jazz musicians are quite frustrated when trying to improvise over a major tonality. I was one of those frustrated musicians. Read More…
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The II-V-I pattern is the most common pattern in jazz music. The more adept you are at playing this pattern in all the keys the better your facility in the jazz language. In the past 20 years I have been keeping a notebook of these patterns. I’ve tried to limit the ones in this 122 Read More…
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