Here's an etude I wrote to demonstrate lines moving through scales. The sort of weaving up and down the scales that you hear advanced players do. Hopefully by playing this etude you can get some insight into all that. It's a blues, so fill in the chords and then analyze the lines against the chords. Remember if you were comping to this, you'd have to change the extensions of the chords to fit the lines. Say for instance the first note was a B and the chord was F7. Well then you'd play most likely an F7 Bb.

Here's a quick lesson I made for a student about intros and endings. If this is of interest to you let me know and I'll make more.

Jam Session at Bedlam BBQ
I always find it interesting to talk about the different jazz "scenes" in different places. Its pretty neat. Its like each city has its own direction that jazz is moving in. If i understand correctly, Philly is pretty old school and in New York everyone wants to sound like Kurt Rosenwinkel and Mark Turner. Denton Texas is Brecker. In Oklahoma all my friends are really into the Miles and Coltrane stuff of the 60's. The crazy Post Bop stuff. A couple people are exceptions.

Hi!
Here is " Beautiful love " during my vibes exam' in december 09.
A lot of stress! and there are a couple of bad choice of notes in my solo :/
Also, I find that the attacks of notes is too precise and squared, no? I would like to have more flexible and fluid playing! ...
thanks for listing! =)

Hey everybody, it's Tjaco's birthday today!

Happy Birthday Tjaco.

Up their with Marie, Tjaco is an indespensible part of this site, making lessons, helping out with the organization and problems with the site.

Tjaco is the best!!! Hope you have a great day!

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Tony

A quick lesson on finding threads through tunes and building lines around them.

here is another track of my trio. i really like that theme a lot. it´s written by wes montgomery.

since i heard some different versions of that tune on the site (e.g. phillipe´s which i really liked a lot) i thought i post a trio version of the tune with a very little arrangement by me...the recording is from last year may or april i think so it´s not my recent playing but who cares :)