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Slow vs Fast playing
Discover the similarities and differences for your bow between ballad and mid/up-tempo swing...
Placing a Dominant lick on different beats
The bar has 4 beats and 4 off-beats; each of these can be a starting point for your Dom Lick!
Making Jessica more chromatic
How to add some chromatic notes to our favourite "Jessica" lick
Playing Bebop and Charleston on the 2 and 4
A super important realization! It swings more if you don't play everything from the 1 and 3, the heavy beats…
The Octave Trill Warmup Exercise
Guaranteed to get the blood flowing the fingers - but only for advanced violinists as it's not easy!
The Half Diminished
Find out how the Half Diminished (or Minor 7 flat 5) actually works
Using Extended Techniques on Dark Eyes
Non-jazz techniques from e.g. classical music can be useful if you need to impress a little on a simple song.…
Accompanying Dark Eyes
The simple chords give you a lot of options! For both Basic and Advanced players
Basic Extensions on Dark Eyes
Each of the 5 simple chords in Dark Eyes should be played with an extra note to give the song…
Investigating Slurred Bowing – part 3
In this third part, I look at the bowings in Bossa Nova (straight) eighth playing which leans more heavily on…
The Major 7th on Major and Minor
The Major 7th, or leading note, defines the key of the Tonic chord. So we want both Major and Minor…
Accompanying Recado Bossa Nova
Here is an etude and explanation how to comp with a bossa rhythm on Recado
Adding Triplet to your Solo Line
We often hear embellishments played by the greats; mostly, they are triplets. Here is how to add these in your…
Advanced Etude on The Man I Love
Taking Toots Thielemans' special chorus on the George Shearing version of The Man I Love (look it up!), I made…
The “Toots” Lick (Number Two)
Taken from harmonica giant Jean "Toots" Thielemans, a contemporary of Stéphane Grappelli, this lick has it all: chromatics, enclosures and…
Transcribing a Solo
Right from the start, how do you actually transcribe a solo? For all of us!
Using the Colour System on All The Things …
As many as FIVE different keys, is what we encounter in All The Things You Are! Time for the Colour…
Basic Chord Accompaniment on All The Things …
For all players, here are some simple chord voicings on All The Things You Are - with sheet music.