Very simple to learn, try to do it fast. Definitely an exercise to have in the back of your mind.
Hi All,
Time to announce July's program. It opens with "America the Beautiful" by Bob Masteller, musician and owner of the popular Hilton Head Island Jazz Corner. (I still can't believe they've been open every night with jazz on their stage for 14 years!) Their first artist was the incredible George Shearing. I understand Bob is a new member here.
Ok, here's my final. Do your. Play the tune. Anything, do something! Play the head, take a solo. Just play the head.... do something!
This is from our sister site, www.trumpetworkshop.com. I should put up more stuff from there as I think it's good stuff! Joe is a great player and teacher!
I've been playing scales 15 minutes a day and totally digging what I'm coming up with. I like being good at alternate sticking which I means I do that the most. So I've been forcing myself to come up with double stickings for scales. I can feel it in my muscles when I do these scales and some of them are tricky.
Instead of doing everything around major modes I've been messing around with different modes mainly for the sounds.
Here are two scales and there sticking.
For the one in Ab start (of course) with L and then start with R. Actually this is G Locrian, right?
Play it. Can you follow it with a chorus of your own that sounds somewhat similar to this? It's ok to work it all out. This is studying!
You know what to do. Write in all the names of the chords and then play the etude.
Do etudes like this help you? At least you hear the changes and hear the tune, right?