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The Power of Positivity from Minim Pro 2 days old
Did you hear the one about the jazz musician who won the lottery? He kept gigging until it was gone. We jazz musicians can be a pretty gloomy old ...
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Beware Of The Web! from Minim Pro 4 days old
[ ... ] us as jazz musicians, so I'll ask you now to bear with me for a few paragraphs! ---------- Recently, as a freelance musician, I've been searching ...
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Power Tips - Record Yourself from Minim Pro 9 days old
By far the quickest way I know of to improve is simply to listen to your own playing. Recording yourself will highlight a whole host of things, both ...
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Quick Tips - Tritone Subsitution from Minim Pro 12 days old
Quick Tips seem to be this blog's equivalent of buses - after waiting ages for one, three come along at once! In recent posts on jazz blues progressions ...
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Quick Tips - Pedal Tones from Minim Pro 16 days old
A pedal tone is a tone sustained in the bass while the harmony moves in the upper voices. Pedal tones are a great way to add a sense of movement to ...
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Quick Tips - Jazz Blues from Minim Pro 19 days old
Whilst jazz may have been born from the blues, it went on to develop its own, separate identity whilst keeping much of the phrasing and deliberate dissonance ...
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Power Tips - Don't Practice in All Keys! from Minim Pro 23 days old
[ ... ] that jazz tunes modulate a lot through many keys, and you're likely to encounter every key at some stage. This is true, but again, there are ...
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Getting Better Faster (Part Two) - Power Tips from Minim Pro 23 days old
Every jazz student I've ever met (myself included) is in a hurry. We all want to get better – and fast. In the last two posts, I've talked about the ...
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The Power Of Persistence from Minim Pro 26 days old
[ ... ] jazz for around a year or so, I had learned enough to realise that my playing really lacked an authentic swing feel. I asked a couple of ...
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Getting Better Faster (Part One) from Minim Pro 30 days old
[ ... ] jazz students on a daily basis. I have talked before about how the enormity of topics that an emerging jazz musician has to study can be ...
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