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Advanced Dominant Etude on Belleville
Use the 6 last Advanced Licks from your Essential Licks crash course on Belleville, to really get to know them.
Transposition Exercise
When you use Licks in different songs, you will have to play them in different Keys. And that is called…
The Diminished Lick
I and others use this Lick all the time. It has a minor sound so fits on "I've Found a…
Stardust – Practice Solo
Learn this Etude on Stardust. Beginners can learn the "single time" first half (most of which can be used in…
Stardust: the Verse
Iconic ballad, Stardust, shouldn't be played without the verse. Here it is, and how to do it! Look up "What…
The Minor Walk Down #3: It Don’t Mean …
A Minor Walk Down is when the bass plays chromatic notes down from the root of the Minor chord. In…
The Minor Walk Down #2: J’Attendrai
There are a bunch of songs with Minor Walk Downs, where the bass moves chromatically down from the Minor chord's…
The Minor Walk Down #1: Lover Man
A Minor Walk Down is when the bass plays chromatic notes down from the root note of a Minor chord.…
Planning your Practice Time
Such an important question: how much to spend on the different exercises? I will tell you again and again, practicing…
The Blues Bowing Lick
Using the Blues Bowing technique, with heavy off-beats (up-bows), play this bluesy lick anywhere that is F Minor, Bb Dominant…
Practising the Dominant exercise on All of Me
The Dominant exercise makes you put a lick of your choice (in this case the Flat 9 Lick) on all…
Practising the Tonic Exercise on All of Me
The Tonic exercise makes you put a lick of your choice (in this case the Leading Note Lick) on all…
Using the Jessica Lick on the Minor Plagal Cadence
A nice, simple way of playing over the changing chords in this Famous Progression is using the key's Jessica Lick.…
Playing over the Minor Plagal Cadence
So many songs have it: After You've Gone, All of Me, There Will Never Be Another You, I'll See You…
The Flat 10 Lick on the Djangology Progression
Make this famous progression work (Djangology, Night and Day and more) by using the Flat 10 Dominant Lick you might…
The Djangology Progression
A Famous Progression you have to know (Djangology, Night and Day and more). I give you the Stéphane Grappelli solution…
The Minor II-V
This special II-V pretends to go to a Minor key but doesn't in the end! The sound features flat 5…
Etude on Ain’t Misbehavin’
Using a trick we have for the Turnaround (bars 1-4), and the Jessica sound on the Minor Plagal Cadence (bars…