June 11, 2010 0 Jazz Up Your Rhythms – Rhythmically Rephrasing Melody Lines This time around I would like to tackle one of the more important elements in playing a jazz tune, that is, [...]
March 18, 2010 2 Harmonic Rhythm – The Natural Flow of Chord Changes Hmm…the blog post title sounds like a mashup of my two favorite musical elements! Well, it is…but [...]
December 10, 2009 2 Understanding Rhythmic Feels One good thing about playing classical music is there is never any confusion about how to play an eighth note [...]
November 20, 2009 0 Handling Rhythmic Anticipations Part 2 Applying Anticipations to a Song: Anticipating Beats 1 & 3 Let’s take a look at a very simple [...]
October 1, 2009 3 Handling Rhythmic Anticipations Anticipation: What is it? One of the most common stumbling blocks of rhythmic playing is the anticipation. An [...]