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gary smulyan wrote a new blog post: It’s Willie Time #3 – Tune Up 2 years, 4 months ago
We’re back again for our 3rd installment of “It’s Willie Time.” A lot of tunes have a similar pattern to “Tune Up”, the II-V-I going down in whole steps. Once you know “Tune Up”, you know a lot of tunes. Willie starts it off showing how you can move the pentatonic pairs through the changes [...]
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gary smulyan wrote a new blog post: It’s Willie Time #2 – On the Trail 2 years, 4 months ago
Willie and I are back again for another jazz lesson in our 2nd installment of “It’s Willie Time.” This time we take a look at “On the Trail” and some improvisation ideas for this tune. When you’re learning to play jazz, one of the most important things you can do is listen to others. Willie [...]
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gary smulyan wrote a new blog post: It’s Willie Time #1 – Satin Doll 2 years, 4 months ago
This is the first entry in “It’s Willie Time.” This is actually the first jazz lesson that I took part in for Jazz Everyone. Here Willie and I start putting some of the jazz language together to look at different improvisational ideas for the tune “Satin Doll.” Willie starts it off by building simple melodies [...]
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