Jazz Smugglers Master Workshop

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Wednesday 31 October 2012

PLAY THE WRONG NOTES AND SOUND BRILLIANT



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This guy is brilliant. Best to do this over the dominant scale to start with.
he key to it is to start on a chord tone, play some notes outside, then end on a chord tone.Then it doesn't sound as if you just missed a key change.
Like playing the blues scale, a little goes a long way.


In this blog 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.

All jazz pros do this. Simple.



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This can make a BIG difference to everyone;s sound. Simple.





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Monday 29 October 2012

Add 1 note to make the Bebop scale. Easy


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The Bebop Dominant Scale is basically a Mixolydian mode with an extra note : a natural 7th.
For F7 chord we've got the following bebop scale :

F G A Bb C D Eb E
1 2 3 4 5 6 b7 7


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Thursday 25 October 2012

THE JAZZ DOMINANT SCALE. ALL INSTRUMENTS



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The Jazz DOMINANT scale and the chord going with it, surely must be the most important chord tone.
First it emphasises one of the two harmony notes the b7. Second it indicates with certainty which key you are in - you can't say that about any Minor chord symbol, nor even for certainty about a Major chord symbol (it might be the 4th of another major)
But, most importantly it can be substituted most easily with the Tritone and the Alt.
This chap is nice and simple. You can get a riff from it.




In this blog 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.





Monday 22 October 2012

Brilliant last night. Why didn't I take a photo?


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Thank you to all the musicians who came to our re-opening of the Jazz Smugglers workshop last night.
Steve, Geoff, 2 Mikes, 2 Davis, Ian and Bob you sounded great. We are going to have a good time.
see you next Sunday 7.30
John


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Thursday 18 October 2012

Sonny Rollins, playing Alfie's Theme



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Tuesday 16 October 2012

Saxophone lesson. "I got rhythm" changes.1 V1 11 V



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We all know about handling 11 V 1, but what happens when you make it 1 V1 11 V. This guy is good and neat explanation.

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Wednesday 10 October 2012

PIANO LESSON FROM OSCAR PETERSEN



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This is a really interesting TV interview with Oscar Petersen showing different styles of piano playing from George Shearing, to Stride piano. Some things I never knew until now.


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Tuesday 9 October 2012

IF YOU ARE STARTING JAZZ, SEE THIS. Please "Share" it. All instruments.



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These are his notes. Very simple, neat, if you are starting to play jazz, then start here.

If you'd like a shortcut to learn some cool jazz chords, head to www.quaverbox.com and check out my Jazz Standard Voicings lesson. Now THAT video will really teach you something! Meanwhile, enjoy this short video about tweaking the melody of Fly Me To The Moon.


In this blog 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.

Saturday 6 October 2012

000's FREE JAZZ SONG CHARTS ON THIS WEBSITE

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Band in a Box thousands of free jazz songs in this Yahoo Group It has over 13,000 musician members around the world. Arranged in sections. A-Z If you just add up the songs in the A section alone, there is over 300 including dots, not just chords. I think there must be 6,000 songs there, all for free.

How they manage to do this without infringing copyrights I do not know. Nominally they are for educational purposes. Yeah, right.

Once you have Band in a Box software installed, then you can get thousands of jazz songs, pop songs, blues, country songs installed for free from this Group. New songs are being added all the time.
Mostly the  dots are ok, but the chords can be terrible if they've been laid down by a know-nothing. You may have to tidy them up.

With the software, it is then easy to transcribe them to another key so concert, Bb and Eb players can each have them.

You can put your own songs and chords down in the software - with difficulty it must be said. I've put down half a dozen practise chord progressions, 11 V1 V 1, up 5ths, down 5ths, up/down minor thirds, whole tones, and the same with 1 V1 11 V and so on. I can play them at 180 or 90. Perfect for practise, and transcribing riffs etc. Chords-are child easy to do it is the dots which are difficult.

The software is not the most user friendly but grit your teeth and stop saying "Surely they can do this better"
Band in a Box is old, before navigation was made easy.

You can get Band in a Box $120 for Windows or Mac from this site. PG music

John



Tuesday 2 October 2012

BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC. JAZZ GUITAR CHORDS, VOICINGS AND COMPING



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Berklee College of Music. The most prestigious college in Jazz.

It will cost you $17000  for a Diploma there, plus, $2,000 health insurance, plus $8000 for meals and residence.

At £50 a gig it will take you only 400 gigs to get the money back from pubs. That's without your living costs for about 4 years, plus the sales cost of getting those gigs, travel and accommodation.

By the way the Berklee fees are just for the Autumn.