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🚨 Playing in 3/4 – Pt. 8: Tune Study – “Little B’s Poem” (Motivic Development)

In Part 8, we continue exploring “Little B’s Poem” with a focus on developing short melodic motifs over a full chorus. Rather than relying on long lines, this lesson uses small melodic and rhythmic cells that repeat, evolve, and shift as the harmony moves.

🎵 Play A Great Rhythm Changes In 3 Months – Week 14

We've made it to Week 14 and the final lesson in our Play A Great Rhythm Changes In 3 Months series!

Over the course of this series, we've worked through rhythm changes from a number of different angles:

• Common four-mallet voicings
• Comping rhythms
• Guide tones and 3rds & 7ths
• Bebop, diminished, and chromatic vocabulary
• Chord and scale outlinings
• Substitute harmony
• Longer melodic phrases
• Transposition and register considerations

Friedman Etude 14

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Friedman Pedaling Etude 16

Friedman No.13

Working on Technique, Dynamics, and Pedaling.