Asymmetry And Improvisation
Published: Thu, 05/20/21
I planned to study classical guitar, harmony and counterpoint in college, but wound up, by my junior year, in the jazz department, taking classes in…
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New Workshop: Blues Changes
Published: Wed, 05/19/21
This two-hour interactive class will add sophisticated new blues licks to your steady bass vocabulary and give you the tools to improvise with them.
The Vandals Took The Handles
Published: Thu, 05/13/21
Very smart cat. Great idea, giving a name to what you do." The handle M-Base was intended to create some breathing room between the music Coleman,…
Less Perfect, More Live
Published: Thu, 05/06/21
It's kind of true. And I've had this conversation with various friends of mine who, like me, are perfectly happy being left to their own devices,…
Blues After Hours
Published: Fri, 04/30/21
En route to school a few days ago, the Dauphin aired his disgruntlement with his friends' taste in art. He's obsessed with Magic The Gathering, a…
Night School
Published: Thu, 04/22/21
I've never been much of a hand for the latest sounds, but now, when I take my daughter to school or pick her up from one of her few quarantine-…
Blues In A Workshop – Last Call
Published: Fri, 04/16/21
And devising Licks to play while Improvising Doesn't have to Feel so messy Or disorganized Or guess-y Focusing on Just one key and Playing finger-…
Blues In A: Workshop FAQs
Published: Fri, 04/16/21
Along with a brisk trade in sign-ups for Blues In A, I've also heard from a handful of folks with questions about the workshop. As a public service,…
The Short Version
Published: Thu, 04/15/21
wondering, so much the better – I made sure this Youtube lesson would stand on its own, as an e ample of how to take a couple of small licks and spin…
New Workshop: Blues In A
Published: Wed, 04/14/21
If you play guitar, you know all about this. It's not enough just to groove on whatever Taj Mahal is doing (whistling in a different key than his…