Category: Free Lessons
Practicing scales for Jazz improv
Posted by Mike Mckenna in Free Lessons Friday, 21 August 2009 19:55 No Comments
A fundamental part of learning how to improvise is becoming familiar with the major, minor, and dominant 7 scales. This lesson will cover how to practice these scales and can be applied to any other scale you want to use it on. I learned this method during a master class with Dr. Barry [...]
Using Accents In Your Solo
Posted by Mike Mckenna in Free Lessons Sunday, 3 May 2009 22:08 No Comments
Here is a quick example of how to use accents in your solo. I took this excerpt from Charlie Parker’s solo on Kim no. 2 out of the omnibook and wrote in where I would place accents if this were me improvising. I would suggest to practice this you start by tapping [...]