A turnaround is a short chord progression of two to four bars that can serve as an introduction, an ending,…
If you’ve studied many music instruction books you may have read the admonition after a musical example: “Practice this in…
Quartal chords, with their open, ambiguous sound, are great for comping behind a soloist or melody line. In this Blues…
Chords based on stacks of fourths instead of traditional triad-based harmony have been a staple of jazz players since the…
The E9th tuning that we know today offers many possibilities for harmonies based on the simple Major and minor chord…
Here’s a nice, usable, bluesy sounding lick on E9 that can work over the basic changes to a blues or…
PENTATONIC APPLICATIONS Any five note scale can be called a pentatonic scale, but the one that gets the most use…
THE NUMBER SYSTEM I first read about the Number System in Jerry Coker’s 1964 book “Improvising Jazz”. I found it…
If you are reading this you are reading the written English language. You would be suspicious of the education of…
The steel guitar was born playing Hawaiian music, and although many of us don’t play that style, we can still…