One of my biggest weaknesses when I was a kid was practicing without a specific focus. I wanted to do it all, play everything, be the best. I wanted results now. I would spend endless hours in the practice room practicing everything. The problem was, I wasn’t focused. I didn’t set goals. Instead of getting […]
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The Charlie Parker Omnibook Volume 2 Review
*I posted all the recordings I could find on Youtube that go with this transcription book at the bottom of this review………Enjoy! Today, I am excited to be reviewing the Charlie Parker Omnibook Volume 2 that has just been released by Hal Leonard. This great book of transcriptions was created by Chris “Doc” Stewart who […]
4 Note Groupings-3 Lesson Deal 14.99
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 […]
Complete Lesson Index
Here is a full index of all my 600+ lessons by category. Have fun browsing…………. Jazz Lessons New Lessons 4 Note Groupings 4 Note Groupings Lesson 1 4 Note Groupings Lesson 2 4 Note Groupings Lesson 3 Approach Notes All the Approaches Lesson 1-All the Things You Are All the Approaches Lesson 2-All the […]
4 Note Groupings Lesson 3
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 […]
Developing Relative Pitch-Hearing the Key
Learning to play by ear is one of the most important aspects to jazz improvisation. When I was a young student in junior high school, I was taught from a few great method books. The main books I worked out of were the Charlie Parker Omnibook and Patterns for Jazz by Jerry Coker. For […]
4 Note Groupings Lesson 2
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 […]
4 Note Groupings Lesson 1
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 […]
Amazing Charlie Parker Recording of Cherokee
Back when I was in junior high school I was introduced to the playing of Charlie Parker. It was 9th grade and up to that point all I had listened to was Spyro Gyra, Chuck Mangione, Dave Sanborn and the Yellowjackets. My saxophone teacher told me that if I wanted to be good at jazz […]
Mastering the Dominant Pentatonic Sound over a Blues (Digital PDF Book)
*BRAND NEW NEFFMUSIC BOOK* Super excited to have finally finished this book. I have been working on this over a couple of years and am ecstatic about the content and it’s potential for students of jazz improvisation. Working on this material has radically changed my own playing and given me a new tool to use […]
Great Video Interview of the Saxophone Player and Teacher George Garzone!!
Here is a great interview of the tenor sax player and teacher George Garzone by Jay Metcalf of BetterSax that I just stumbled upon on Youtube today. I studied with George Garzone for a short time at Berklee College of Music in the late 80’s (I wish I could have studied more with him but […]
Creating Modern II-V-I Lines with Simple Pentatonics Lesson
In this new lesson entitled “Creating Modern II-V-I Lines with Simple Pentatonics Lesson”, I teach you a simple approach to using two minor pentatonic scales to produce very hip and modern sounding lines over a ii-7 V7 IMaj7 progression. This progression is one of the most common chord progressions in jazz and applying these cool […]
Jerry Bergonzi You’re My Everything Tenor Saxophone Solo Transcription
Here is another great tenor sax solo transcription by Dimitrii Sergheev. This a solo by the great Jerry Bergonzi over the jazz standard “You’re My Everything”. Jerry Bergonzi is a great jazz tenor sax player and teacher from the New England area and if you went to school in Boston like I did, Jerry Bergonzi […]
Adam Larson Chord Tone Blues Tenor Saxophone Solo Transcription
Here is a short two chorus transcription of the young tenor saxophonist Adam Larson playing a tenor saxophone solo over a blues progression that I saw on Instagram the other day. Adam is mostly just using chord tones on this tenor sax solo with a few tritone substitutions here and there. It is not overly […]
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