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Jazz Piano Transcription: Lesson on Sonny Clark’s Blue Minor Solo
One of the most powerful ways to learn jazz piano is to transcribe and study the playing of your favorite jazz musicians. It is for this reason that I have included a number of jazz piano transcriptions on this site … Continue reading
Posted in Improvisation, Jazz Blog, Jazz Piano Lessons, Solo Analysis, Transcriptions Tagged jazz piano lessons, jazz transcriptions 3 Comments
You Won’t Be Able To Use Google Reader To Read This Site Very Soon.
Just wanted to give a quick heads up to the regular visitors to freejazzlessons.com who get notified of new lesson posted using Google Reader. (If you don’t use Google Reader then you don’t have to worry about this post. ) … Continue reading
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Jazz Licks On Every Note: Part 6
Welcome back to our continuing series where we learn how to play jazz licks starting on every note of a scale. In today’s lesson we’re going to learn a fun jazz lick starting on the 6th scale degree of a … Continue reading
Posted in Improvisation, Jazz Blog, Jazz Licks, Jazz Piano Lessons Tagged jazz improvisation, Jazz Lick, jazz licks, jazz piano lesson, jazz piano lessons 4 Comments
Learn A Miles Davis Jazz Lick
One of the best ways to learn jazz improvisation is to really study and model the jazz licks of master jazz improvisers. So, today I’m going to teach you how to play a Miles Davis II-V-I lick. I love this … Continue reading
3 Jazz Education Questions Revealed With A Video Response
The goal for this site has been to always provide a 21st century jazz education experience. So, in today’s lesson I thought it would be fun to create a personalized video response to some of the questions I’ve received through … Continue reading
5 Ear Training Tips For Hearing The Extensions Of A Chord
Chord extensions, tensions, alterations, color tones, whatever you want to call them, I am always interested! I can’t write enough about this subject because it’s so important for learning jazz piano. As pianists we have the ability to create so … Continue reading
Posted in Jazz 101, Jazz Articles, Jazz Blog Tagged ear training, jamey aebersold, jazz practice 6 Comments
12 Jazz Questions Answered
You’ve got jazz questions you say? I have jazz answers! Today’s post I’m going to try something I’ve never done before. This will be an experiment of sorts. I’m going to publish and answer several of the email questions I’ve … Continue reading
How To Mix The Blues Scale With Bebop Over A Jazz Standard
Have you always wondered how you can use the blues scale over a jazz standard? Do you know how to mix bebop and blues together over jazz tunes? Well in today’s jazz tutorial we’re going to explore both of these … Continue reading
Posted in Blues Piano, Improvisation, Jazz Blog, Jazz Piano Lessons, Standards Tagged autumn leaves, jazz improvisation lesson 7 Comments
