Mulgrew Miller – If I Were A Bell (From the album “Live At Yoshi’s Vol. 1”) [LOTW #79]
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Mulgrew Miller made a huge impact on jazz history. He will be forever remembered. Here is a nice line over a 2-5-1. He uses the same pattern over both the two chord and the five chord. He goes from the b9 to the #9 to the 3rd then back down to the natural 9, b13 […]
Chick Corea – Tones For Joan’s Bones (From the album “Number Two Express”) [LOTW #78]
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I love how this line starts. It is such a cool sound over a dominant chord. If you’re thinking in terms of F7, he starts on the natural 13, the note B then moves to the b7 ,#9, 5th then root. Its a nice fourth pattern that can be used in lots of different ways. […]
Chick Corea – Autumn Leaves (From the album “Rendezvous In New York”) [LOTW #77]
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Here is a fingering pattern from Chick Corea, used in Autumn Leaves. In this line Chick is repeating a 4321, 4321, fingering pattern and selecting certain notes to match up. I would say this line is more about a texture rather than focusing on specific notes. When you get to the level these pros are […]
Chick Corea – Matrix (Pt. 2, From the album “Now He Sings, Now He Sobs”) [LOTW #76]
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I had to do one more from “Matrix” because you hear this pattern all the time and I’m sure you might have wondered what the heck that was that was being played. Well here it is! This line is truly just a technical exercise pattern. With some practice you’ll have it down in no time. […]
Useful Considerations for Jazz Piano Comping
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By Sam Griffith Jazz piano comping can be extremely difficult. When accompanying other musicians, pianists have a lot to think about! Here are a few things to ALWAYS remember: Keep It Simple! This process always begins with finding the right notes AND playing them in time. This is not always easy, but very important to remember! […]
Chick Corea – Matrix (Pt. 1, From the album “Now He Sings Now He Sobs”) [LOTW #75]
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We start our Chick Corea series today with a line from his famous album , Now He Sings Now He Sobs. Fantastic album everyone should check out. This tune “The Matrix” is a fast blues that Chick Corea wrote. This line is pretty simple yet sounds amazing. Over the II dominant chord Chick plays a […]
McCoy Tyner – Satin Doll (From the album “McCoy Plays Ellington”) [LOTW #74]
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Here is a nice line from when McCoy was younger and recorded an all Ellington album. In this line McCoy is beginning to develop his sound using his pentatonics but it is definitely not as pronounced as when he is recording with Trane and by himself a some years later. This is a great line […]
McCoy Tyner – Pursuance – (From John Coltrane’s album “A Love Supreme”) [LOTW #73]
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Here is a nice lick from Coltrane’s famous, A Love Supreme. There is not much going on note wise but McCoy uses some nice re-harms here going to the F#7 then to A7 before finally resolving to the V7 of the minor blues the F7 chord. For ease of playing this, practice arpeggio runs to […]
McCoy Tyner – Blues On The Corner (From the album “The Real McCoy”) [LOTW #72]
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Everything in this solo is so great it all should be learned. It was so hard to take one selection but here it is. So again, everything going on here and in this album is a combination of hexatonic, meaning 6 note patterns, or pentatonic, meaning 5 note patters. McCoy will take these 5 and […]
McCoy Tyner – Passion Dance (From the album “The Real McCoy”) [LOTW #71]
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Here is the first line from the McCoy series. Pretty long I know, but it was so great and it finishes so nicely I had to put it all in. I would take it apart into two sections to practice. All of McCoy’s sound comes from hexatonics. Hexatonics are a combination of two triads two […]