JPS Ep:129 – 3 Tips To Improve The Blues Scale
Learning how to make your blues scale improv not sound terrible can be difficult. Trust me! I went through the same thing! Here are 3 very easy tips that will your blues scale improvisation instantly sound like you’ve been doing it for years! Enjoy
Cool Oscar Peterson Riff from “D. & E. Blues” Pt. 2 (LOTW #117)
This chorus of blues from the album “We Get Requests” finishes out with a triplety riff which would swing the doors off of any club! Oscar’s rhythm section grooves hard behind him here.
The Sound of Jazz: The Importance of Articulation and Feel
The sound of jazz. Where does it come from? Some might say “the blues.” They would be right, but when people talk about playing the blues, there is often an important ingredient missing from the conversation: FEEL. What does it mean when we’re talking about feel? We’re talking about time feel. The feeling of the […]
Jazz Piano School Ep. 128 – How to Sound Like Bill Evans – Shifting Extensions
Learn how to shift and move extensions in your voicings with this quick method to create a more modern jazz piano sound! With this method you’ll be create that complicated inner voice movement that you hear Bill Evans achieve, not to mention many other huge jazz piano giants. Jazz Piano School has taught thousands of students to achieve jazz piano freedom using methods and strategies exactly like the one you’ll learn in this video.
Cool Oscar Peterson Lick from D. & E. Blues Pt. 1 from We Get Requests (LOTW #116)
This excerpt is from a chorus of blues by Oscar Peterson on his album We Get Requests, where the trio covers popular standards. Be on the lookout for some swinging hours playing. With Oscar, it’s hard to miss!!
Keith Jarrett’s Fiery Opening Lick (LOTW #115)
This is a solo by a young Keith Jarrett during his professional debut on tour with Charles Lloyd in 1966. His fiery opening line became infamous because of his technical fluidity and his use of harmonic color.
What is a Bebop Scale? And Why Is It Important?
Are Bebop Scales the secret to unlocking the mystery of bebop improvisation for you? No. In order to truly sound authentic with bebop improvisation, you must develop a solid bebop vocabulary and incorporate staples of bebop phraseology such as: enclosures, chromaticism, triplets in between a string of eighth notes, and particular sounds like the altered […]
How to Be a Great Modern Improviser
Part I: Understanding What “Modern” Improv Is First, let’s take a broad look at where improvisation started, and how we’ve ended up where we are today. Many people are unaware of the fact that improvisation began long before jazz ever existed. There was a time when the great composers could sit at the piano and […]
Bud Powell’s Groovin’ Lick on “Celia” (LOTW #114)
Bud Powell was an extremely influential artist to jazz and jazz pianists to come. Here is a great lick from one of his very famous tunes called “Celia”.
Killin’ Diminished Line Using Chord Scale Above Approaches (LOTW #113)
Share on facebook Facebook Share on google Google+ Share on twitter Twitter Share on linkedin LinkedIn Love this diminished pattern. Sounds fantastic and is pretty simple. Just approaching diminished chord tones from chord scale above using the whole half scale again. A little easier said than done! I get that. Enjoy! CLICK HERE TO GET […]
