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As I say it may be hard to appreciate why if you haven’t worked with it a bit. (Maybe the video is flawed from that perspective, but that’s the problem with videos on YouTube .) So, here’s the...
I do like that idea. Rather than transpose the concert chart to suit the alto, make everyone else in the band transpose their charts. Whose band is this anyway? (At the same time, I suspect...
"Nick Gravenites, Mainstay of the San Francisco Rock Scene, Dies at 85 "A blues devotee from Chicago, he tasted fame in the late 1960s with the Electric Flag, a band that made its debut at...
They are BH 6th dim moves that were dubbed "monk moves" by the BH guitar book author. Great for short rhythmic comping at high tempos.
I don't see why relating it to the dominant scale versus other scales is any less likely to lead to playing scale-like lines - but I don't use scales as an improvisation tool, only as a reference. ...
I have to write out solos perfectly in some of my big band arrangements, because sometimes I'll take a small group tune and expand it to 17 piece jazz ensemble. This is only if I think the solo is so...
Well it’s a paradox isn’t it? Improvisation in jazz is not quite the impulse to play anything you want in the moment, or rather that impulse is focussed through a tradition and social context that...
Clapton recorded his version of Autumn Leaves years after the original Real Book came out. His version is in Bm by the way, whereas the tune appears there in Em. The history of Autumn Leaves in...
This was not even a FUGLY lady. More like a guy with sasquatch type hairy legs. (No Squatch allowed!)
By that do you mean if you can do Monk moves fast, you can do BH moves fast? And what do you mean by 'Monk moves'?
Nope, not according to what I always read and just saw confirmed: Martin Monel strings have a tin-plated hex core with a nickel and copper alloy wrap wire that reduces the amount of string attack...
https://youtu.be/mQBwkA-HVUQ also good for warm up. going from slow to fast. I improvise phrases like these ones. Nice phrasing .
RIP Nick Gravenites
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