~New Book: Tetrads: Triad add 9
This new book is an in depth look at the Major Triad Add 9 Tetrad (or 4 note cell). There’s a ton of great melodic and harmonic material that can be found within this simple structure. There are 96 note order
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This new book is an in depth look at the Major Triad Add 9 Tetrad (or 4 note cell). There’s a ton of great melodic and harmonic material that can be found within this simple structure. There are 96 note order
Today I’m working on the first melody of the standard “I’m a Fool to Want You”. I’m singing the opening phrase at the piano while visualizing the fingerings on saxophone. I’m using the piano to help with my pitch and
Today I’ve been singing half note roots over Coltrane’s tri-tonic system. In this case: C Maj, Eb7, Ab Maj, B7, E Maj, G7 repeat… while singing the roots I’m thinking of the chord names and qualities and tapping a 5/8
This is a supplementary post to Lesson 26. This skill will help you learn to play what you hear, learn to hear new ideas, melodies and intervals, help you transcribe and help you play by ear over songs that you
I’ve been working on this interval exercise with a drone for the last week or so and it’s really starting to have a positive effect on my ear and connection between my ear and my fingers. There’s an outline of
This short warm up is a melody based on a Major 7 #5 chord. The melody starts on the Root, ascends to the #5, ascends to the Major 3rd, descends to the Major 7, ascends to the Major 9. The
Matt Otto “Iberica” – Origin Records Dan McClenaghan, from All About Jazz, has given it a nice review which you can read below. Here’s a preview of the track “St. Paul”: By DAN MCCLENAGHAN: Saxophonist Matt Otto presents the
Here’s a simple melody that outlines the 4 distinct half diminished modes or scales. The PDF contains both scale and the melody (which uses the half diminished 7th chord and the 9 and 13 as embellishment). The modes are: The
Although I believe there is a limit to value of practicing and understanding chord scale theory, the melodic minor scale is so prevalent in jazz improvisation and composition, I think that it’s important and relevant for the developing improviser to
Alto saxophonist Andy Ehling and I have released our second album, “Reunion”. We recorded ten original compositions in Kansas City over two days. Nate Espy and Nick Crane at Rooftop Media engineered the session. The band includes Andy Ehling on
Last February I was interviewed by Joe Dimino at Neon Jazz. Joe’s blog is an amazing wealth of interviews and inspiration where you can spend hours learning insights from many great living jazz artists. Here’s my interview with Joe: To