All of my days have been weary Then you came along and cheered me When you put your arms around me and hold me tight In orbit baby Gave me reason to want you Couldn't hold back if I tried to...
The locrian mode is a crazy scale that branches off of the seventh degree of the major scale. So it's relatively easy to learn because you just back down a half step to the seventh and there...
What is a half step above G? It is A flat or G sharp so we are going to take an A flat scale because really you are just going to think of that as being the A flat major scale but you are going to...
To find the second step of any scale you have to go up a whole step which is two half steps, B to C to C sharp. I know I am saying that a lot but you will not believe how confusing that is to people...
Then we have the C minor use as the same key signature once again B and E as B flat major. [Play saxophone]. Then the five is going to be F. [Play saxophone]. Which is also very nicely today, I...
By changing the permutation of this 1-2-3-5 pattern you can come up with some interesting twists and turns which you can eventually combine until you don't have to think about it, it becomes a...
In the last series we went over the three notes that can be played. Once again, you have to reach around these palm keys. If any of them are depressed in the slightest, you're tones that...
All these notes can be played with the active key, but I wanted to go over each and every one so that we don't get too confused as we go along. We're going, talked about them, pitch...
Hajo: Ok - Simone Kopmajer Concert at Klub.k - when? What date is it today? I studied with Sheila Jordan and Mark Murphy and one day I asked Sheela: do I have a chance as a jazz singer, or should I...
In addition to outlining the seventh chord, and playing off of those tones, you can embellish this, and this is our first step towards this. This is not the end-all, be-all of things, but it is...