Jazz Smugglers Master Workshop

Jazz Smugglers Master Workshop
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Friday 31 August 2012

Basic Jazz Drumming

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I had to kiss a lot of Fundamentals of Jazz Drumming frogs before I found this Prince.
It is basc, ok, but you've got a truly good teacher here. Vic Firth.



Here is the man in action. Enjoy.
I always had respect for jazz drummers, but I've got a lot more now.
John


We will produce tips for jazz piano, and jazz guitar together with jazz saxophone. We will cover jazz chords, jazz guitar chords, and we will deal with jazz scales. We will cover jazz songs. This site is all about jazz improvisation.









Thursday 30 August 2012

Sing jazz. Brilliant this is


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Yup, she is a good teacher.
John

We will produce tips for jazz piano, and jazz guitar together with jazz saxophone. We will cover jazz chords, jazz guitar chords, and we will deal with jazz scales. We will cover jazz songs. This site is all about jazz improvisation.

Wednesday 29 August 2012

Time signatures, 4/4, 3/4, and the Jazz Waltz


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We will produce tips for jazz piano, and jazz guitar together with jazz saxophone. We will cover jazz chords, jazz guitar chords, and we will deal with jazz scales. We will cover jazz songs. This site is all about jazz improvisation.

John

Tuesday 28 August 2012

How often do you practise? Poll here


We will produce tips for jazz piano, and jazz guitar together with jazz saxophone. We will cover jazz chords, jazz guitar chords, and we will deal with jazz scales. We will cover jazz songs. This site is all about jazz improvisation.

This video is about practising jazz for all instruments. Please go to the POLL on the right hand side and enter your answer about how much practise you do. You'll be anonymous. You can check results in a couple of days' time. Playing at gigs doesn't count as practise, well it does, obviously, but not for the purpose of this poll.




PLEASE TAKE THE POLL ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE.


We will produce tips for jazz piano, and jazz guitar together with jazz saxophone. We will cover jazz chords, jazz guitar chords, and we will deal with jazz scales. We will cover jazz songs. This site is all about jazz improvisation.



A question about YOUR jazz playing?


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Here are jazz forum sites for each instrument, jazz piano, jazz guitarjazz, jazz saxophone, jazz bass.
I tried to find a decent one for Jazz singlers but could not find any. 
Sign up, and if you have a question about playing jazz somone half decent will answer it for you. Be careful not to express any opinions about an ything otherwise you'll have hot coals thrust upon your head.

As Sonny Rollins says: "An hour on stage is worth a month in the woodshed"


piano questions answered by pros




We will produce tips for jazz piano, and jazz guitar together with jazz saxophone. We will cover jazz chords, jazz guitar chords, and we will deal with jazz scales. We will cover jazz songs. This site is all about jazz improvisation.

John Winkler
ps. Don't forget our workshops start again in mid October, near Chichester.



Monday 27 August 2012

Embellishing melodies in Jazz. Please "like"

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Simple, but tells you what you need to know.
John
Jazz smugglers band site.
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Sunday 26 August 2012

Jazz saxophone, swing feel for all jazz musicians actually

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This is very simple and very basic, but it is necessary to get hold of early on in jazz. All instruments play this, not just saxophones.

John

We give tips for jazz piano, and jazz guitar. We will cover jazz chords, jazz guitar chords, and we will deal with jazz scales. We will cover jazz songs. This site is all about jazz improvisation particularly for jazz saxophone.

Friday 24 August 2012

LEARN JAZZ PIANO IN 4 MINUTES. REALLY.


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Yup, you can. Easy.

John Winkler

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Thursday 23 August 2012

Jazz players must get Band in a Box software


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When you think the Duke Ellington had to write down all his parts for every instrument separately. Must have taken hours, and days. To-day, I can think of a song we haven't played, go to a Yahoo Group and download it free, words, dots and all put it into BIAB software, save and send it to the band and we can all be working on it in our homes, within an hour from the start. Wow!
Not that they do, of course.

We can even hear several jazz versions of it being played, all for free, all within seconds on Spotify.

Look, even the pros work on their jazz. For a start, you need to get chord progressions down into a software programme which will play them back to you in any key, any tempo. You can plug in and play with Band in a Box software. The chords are the easiest part of the programme to put down. Takes seconds to save, say, 11 V 1's in all keys. Then you can add in V1's and move between the keys up or down in m3rds, 5ths, whole tones etc.

Perfect for chords, improvising, practising riffs in all keys, perfect. You can work on your tritone subs in all keys.

You can also get thousands of songs downloaded and built into the progrmme from a special Band-in-a-Box Yahoo Group. In the jazz list under A you'll find no fewer than 200 songs! They've been running this Yahoo BIAB group for years with 13,000 members in it.

In our Jazz smugglers band or workshop if we want a new song, I just download it from the BIAB Group, and tidy up the chords. The dots are usually ok, but the chords have sometimes been laid down by prats. All the band members have got BIAB so the song is ready for working on..

This is the program most amateurs use, because it does nearly everything they want and it is substantially cheaper than other programs. It is not to easy to suss out to start with but chords are simple to do. Dots are harder.

Band in a Box website  About £100 for a first time buyer. See reviews on Amazon.

Yahoo Band in a Box Group with '000's of jazz standards for downloading free.

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John Winkler

We will produce tips for jazz piano, and jazz guitar. We will cover jazz chords, jazz guitar chords, and we will deal with jazz scales. We will cover jazz songs. This site is all about jazz improvisation particularly for jazz saxophone.


Tuesday 21 August 2012

Blues riff, sounds nice


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Great blues riff. Learn it for all the keys and you'll never worry about blues again.
John

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Friday 17 August 2012

Minor 11 V 1's - Tips on playing minor progressions


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This guy Les Wise is brilliant. Not so easy this one - needs a bit of concentration. Think Night and Day.
John Winkler
We will produce tips for jazz piano, and jazz guitar. We will cover jazz chords, jazz guitar chords, and we will deal with jazz scales. We will cover jazz songs. This site is all about jazz improvisation particularly for jazz saxophone.



Saturday 11 August 2012

Learning chords quickly


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This guy, Les Wise, has the secret of making it simple for learning jazz. Never heard of this before but I'm going to use it.
John Winkler

We will produce tips for jazz piano, and jazz guitar. We will cover jazz chords, jazz guitar chords, and we will deal with jazz scales. We will cover jazz songs. This site is all about jazz improvisation particularly for jazz saxophone.

Wednesday 8 August 2012

Learning melodies easily


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This is absolutely brilliant. I've learned something from this. John Jazz smugglers workshop

We will produce tips for jazz piano, and jazz guitar. We will cover jazz chords, jazz guitar chords, and we will deal with jazz scales. We will cover jazz songs. This site is all about jazz improvisation particularly for jazz saxophone.

Tuesday 7 August 2012

Recent Jazz Jam competition

This appeared in this week’s Chi Observer.

Congratulations to Lucy Phillips and Richard Craik.

John