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K.I.S.S. . . . : A Methodology To Help You Get Your Groove On.
Below is an excellent video from sax player/keyboard player Jeff Schneider who has a You Tube channel with a lot of cool information on improvisation, saxophone technique, r&b keyboards and other...
View Article“We Got The Beat . . . : Perfecting Rhythm
With the vast majority of guitar instructional material you see on the the internet (and in pre You Tube material as well) the emphasis has been on two of the three elements of music, melody and...
View Article“All The Blues You Can Use” . . : The12 Essential Blues Chord Progressions...
I just came across this item from the You Tube channel Jazz Duets (https://www.jazzduets.com/). In the video below, you are given a short but concise rundown of twelve different blues progressions that...
View Article“Walk This Way” . . . : Cool Walking Bass Videos From Reverb
When you ask someone to imagine a jazz tune in their head, I bet that the imaginary tune has a walking bass line. It’s that steady, pulse keeping, melodic thump that will make you tap your feet, nod...
View Article“Hey Bulldog” . . . : From Forgotten Orphan To Cult Favorite
I remember when the Beatles movie “Yellow Submarine” came out. I went to see it with my older brother and a couple of his friends when I was about eleven years old. I watched and liked the Saturday...
View Article“Getting Off The Root” . . . : Digging Deeper With Jeff Antoniuk
As I’m doing my own deep dive into jazz bass playing, I’ve been working on my bass soloing. As the material has a much faster harmonic rhythm than the rock/blues/funk tunes that I usually play, I’ve...
View Article“Don’t You Let That Deal Go Down” . . . : Learn Jerry Garcia’s Solo From Deal...
I had lunch the other day with my old friend Errol. Errol is an excellent guitarist and we have been in bands together on and off for about forty years. Errol is currently in an excellent Jam band...
View Article“If You Get Confused Just Listen To The Music Play” . . : A Video Asks, “Was...
As a musician and as a Deadhead, I have had on more than one occasion a conversation with non-Deadhead musicians who dismiss Jerry Garcia as someone who just plays scales up and down, someone who...
View Article“Quarantine Is Painless” . . . : Musical Mashups For Your Amusement
As I understand it a musical mashup is the blending together of two or more existing songs, by superimposing the melody of one song over the backing track of another. The practice has existed for...
View Article“Shaken, Not Stirred”. . : James Bond & Spy Music
It started with Goldfinger. Despite my young age (I don’t remember exactly but I was pretty young), I somehow wound up going to see a double feature of From Russia With Love and Goldfinger. And it was...
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