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How To Thicken Up Jazz Voicings And Arrangements in 3 Easy Steps
Episode 274
Jazz doesn't always have to be hard. I swear. Sometimes one specific skill set can be broken down into 3 easy steps. I recently taught my special Acc…
3 years, 8 months ago
Use This Trick To Know What Scales To Play Over Chords In Any Key!
Episode 273
When learning new tunes, it can often be tricky to know which notes to play over chords that are unfamiliar. By finding the home key and practicing i…
3 years, 8 months ago
Quickly Improve Your Improvisation With This One Exercise
Episode 272
There are usually a handful of things in life that REALLY help you make some serious progress. This goes for almost everything in life. Golf, paintin…
3 years, 9 months ago
How to Master the Art of 10ths
Episode 271
It can be easy to get stuck using the same tired licks or sets of voicings. Here is a new way you can approach comping and improvising by incorporati…
3 years, 9 months ago
5 Ways To Spark Creativity in Your Improvisation
Episode 270
Action creates reaction. If motivation and inspiration naturally found us, there would be millions of Monet's, da Vinci's and Oscar Peterson's in the…
3 years, 9 months ago
3 Comping Texture Hacks You Need To Know
Episode 269
There are just some things in jazz that are completely random and do not have a deep theory concept attached to them... but they sound freakin' great…
3 years, 10 months ago
Gospel Voicings from "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" Tutorial
Episode 268
"Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" is a jazz standard written by pianist Joe Zawinul and made famous by Cannonball Adderly's Quintet. In this tutorial, you will l…
3 years, 10 months ago
The BEST Way To Learn Drop 2 Voicings And How To Use Them
Episode 267
Learning jazz takes you on MANY different paths. Trust me. I know from experience. It's like using a GPS, sometimes maps will take you 50 miles out o…
3 years, 10 months ago
How To Compose and Improvise With Modes
Episode 266
The word itself can be cause a lot of resistance among students. This happened to me for years. Just hearing the word...MODE...cause me to freeze up …
3 years, 11 months ago
3 Different Solo Piano Registers and What To Play In Each
Episode 265
This podcast lesson is based on the education I taught for my brand new Accelerator program. It breaks down the piano into 3 different registers when…
3 years, 11 months ago