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Blues in All Major and Minor Keys

December 21st, 2009 · 4 Comments · Geek, Music, Teaching, The Jewel Box

Here’s a list of blues tunes in every major and minor key. I’ve made a Spotify playlist [yet again!] of 24 tunes [the ones underlined] so you could play along and you’ll be playing in every key. Why you would want to do this I’ve no idea, but it might give you something to do [...]

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10 very good solos

December 5th, 2009 · 18 Comments · Music, Teaching, The Jewel Box, inspiration

Here are 10 random solos that I really like. Now that I’ve compiled the playlist I can think of many other solos that are equally great but this 10 will have to do. I’ll do another 10 soon. If you’re lucky enough to live in a country where Spotify works you can click on the [...]

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Three Types of Dominant Chord and a Head Fake

November 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Teaching, The Jewel Box

Here’s an idea to practise three types of dominant sound.
You give up three and a bit bars to three simple licks. The lines are all clichés, but don’t hold that against them; they describe the sound of the harmony and may give you a way in to that sound. And this exercise is not really [...]

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Charlie Parker Omnibook as a Spotify Playlist

November 5th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Music, Teaching, The Jewel Box

I’ve just made a Spotify Playlist of the transcriptions in the Charlie Parker Omnibook and thought I’d share it here. Hopefully, they’ll appear in the order they are in the book. Feel free to link to it, pass it on, or whatever. There’s only one track missing: the alternate take of Kim. [update: got that [...]

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Practice 2.0

November 2nd, 2009 · 6 Comments · Geek, Guitar, Music, Teaching, The Jewel Box

Seems to me that with all the interesting things I’m finding out about via Twitter such as NaNoWriMo, Home Taping, RPM Challenge and NaSoAlMo, that there really should be some sort of practice version. I reckon it could work if you had a way of connecting a few like-minded souls with a common goal, let’s [...]

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Some exercises for improving time and rhythmic accuracy

October 21st, 2009 · 10 Comments · Guitar, Music, Teaching, The Jewel Box

Here’s a little metronome-based exercise I use to work on accuracy of note placement and awareness of time and rhythm within groove-based music. Woo, let the party begin…

A Word of Warning: Some view exercises with metronomes as cold and unmusical. And I’d agree. Just like scales, arpeggios, intervals, strings and cables are unmusical. They’re just [...]

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