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If you look at the last two bars of “The French Suite No. 5” by Bach, you see how he uses the guide tones of a chord to imply what the chord is. The guide tones are the three and the seven of every chord. These two notes played against the root create a melody […]
Read More…Circular breathing is an extended technique used by performers when there is no place in a musical passage to take a breath.
Read More…Special techniques which add a great deal of expressiveness and excitement to a performance.
Read More…Some examples of how master jazz improvisers use the Lydian dominant sound
Read More…An exploration of how Jimmy Heath and Dexter Gordon navigate some common cadences.
Read More…Developing a great jazz tone is one of the most important aspects in learning to play the saxophone.
Read More…What is the difference between taking a solo in Bruce Springsteen’s band and the Art Blakey band? Let’s explore the Mixolydian Mode and how the use of it makes one sound like a jazz saxophonist as opposed to a rock sax player.
Read More…Miles Donahue talks improvisation using the Mixolydian Mode.
Read More…By Miles Donahue The intuitive side of music is the natural ability we are born with that enables us to remember what we hear and accumulate vocabulary without benefit of intellectual study. Van Cliburn, who in 1958 and was the winner of the Tchaikovsky piano competition in Moscow, was only three years old when he […]
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