Over the last two weeks, I've been talking about the importance of mastery in learning music. Today I want to look at practical ways to work towards … more
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playing jazz
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What your playing and your signature should have in common (but probably don't!)
@ 2011-08-04 – 17:12:57
What you know about playing jazz is useless: it's what you can do that counts. This was that main point I was making in the last post on the blog. … more -
Five steps to becoming an INCREDIBLE jazz player
@ 2011-07-14 – 13:24:02
Sounds too good to be true doesn't it? Well it isn't. In fact I GUARANTEE that if you follow these five steps, your playing will soar to incredible … more -
Learning to cope with jazz standards (Part 5)
@ 2011-03-24 – 14:31:20
This is the final post in this series. If you would like to catch up with the rest of the posts on this topic, you can do so below: Part 1 Part 2 Part … more -
Learning to cope with jazz standards (Part 3)
@ 2011-03-10 – 14:11:23
For the last two weeks, I've been talking about learning to cope with standard tunes. 'Coping' means really developing a solid foundation to your playing … more -
Learning to cope with jazz standards (Part 1)
@ 2011-02-21 – 14:44:00
I have a few private piano students at the moment at various intermediate levels of playing who are working on building effective solos. Interestingly … more -
Why you're great in the practice room but suck on the bandstand
@ 2011-02-14 – 13:36:16
There are only two types of jazz solo; I call them positive and defensive. Let's take defensive soloing first. The musician playing a defensive solo … more -
What's the point of jazz?
@ 2010-11-15 – 11:21:18
Here's a tricky question: What is the point of jazz? Actually, what is the point of music in general? Oh sod it, let's the go for the big one and ask … more -
Why playing jazz should be easy
@ 2010-11-08 – 11:19:14
[ ... ] feel like you're playing jazz. That's why I couldn't believe how simply Miles and Horace Silver were playing on those records, because to me, ... more -
A one-legged rant about the nature of jazz improvisation
@ 2010-08-23 – 15:02:49
Randomly and mysteriously over the weekend I have contrived to do something to my Achilles tendon which kept me up all night thanks to the pain and has … more
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