Articles with advice for improving your ability to improvise and play by ear.
One of the great jazz artists to ever blow the trumpet, the infamous Tom Harrell, crushing the blues in all 12 keys here with Jamey Aebersold. Feel free to be inspired. … This Is How You Play The Blues (Tom Harrell / Blues in 12 Keys)Read More »
Hope everyone is doing well this fall. With the changing of the seasons comes, you guessed it, BTB’s latest RoutineTracker.
Here’s what’s inside:
Enjoy! …
Here we find ourselves again; another year down, one step closer to the grave.
Let’s put some pep in that step with the annual, “BTB Year in Review!”
Here’s what worked (and what didn’t) in 2017: …
Trumpet Year in Review: What Worked (And What Didn’t) in 2017Read More »
Still waiting for that “light bulb” moment when it comes to understanding and incorporating the jazz language into your own playing? Here’s a super-easy, super-fun method for doing just that (straight from the teachings of one of the greatest improvisers ever). Enjoy!
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Understanding and Incorporating the Jazz Language (In VA) – BTBLOG Ep 7Read More »
These are your Chops on Music
If you have little confidence improvising – or doing so negatively affects your playing from a physical standpoint – you will benefit greatly by implementing an aural approach to your daily routine. A strategy called ideo-kinetics (which Bobby Shew talks about) combined with a structured labeling of sound yields fabulous results in execution and will get you rolling toward success with improvised music.
Ideo-kinetics is a practice procedure where you first …
Internalizing Melodic Vocabulary (Your Chops on Music)Read More »