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Introduction to Jazz Rhythm and Articulation
A guide to playing with swing Updated 2025 Swing is the perfect balance between tension and release Basic Syncopated Rhythmic Patterns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00Q4mqhGtgo copyright©danielfedele2025 Share this: Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest Click to print (Opens in new window) Print Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Read more…
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Introduction to the Study of the II-V-I Progression
Improvise your own melodic lines with the authentic jazz sound Updated 2025 Jazz Language Workbooks: Youtube Channel https://youtu.be/pYL1lK2AG9I https://youtu.be/F7QtG9hwlD8 https://youtu.be/dQtOlBz9PQ4 copyright©danielfedele2025 Share this: Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest Click to print (Opens in new window) Print Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Read more…
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“So What” (Miles Davis): Analysis
Harmonic analysis, improvisation resources and recordings of the jazz standard composed by Miles Davis Updated 2025 “So What” is a jazz standard composed by Miles Davis. It´s the first track on the 1959 album Kind of Blue (1959). The style of “So What” is modal jazz, swing rhythm and A8-A8-B8-A8 form. The key of “So What” is D dorian minor with a modulation to Eb dorian minor on the B section (bridge). Scale and mode are equivalent terms, scale is used in a tonal context and mode is used in a modal context. Read more…
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Jazz Scales in C
In order of sharps and flats. Models and templates Updated 2025 These exercises are included in the Jazz Harmony Workbook. Read more…
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Jazz Standards with Unusual Time Signatures
Odd, complex, irregular time signatures. Combined unusual time signatures. Jazz standards composed in 4/4 and played with an unusual time signature. Polyrhythms, cross-rhythms. Updated 2025 4/4 is the most used time signature in jazz because it´s not as closed as 2/4 and 3/4 and allows more rhythmic variations inside the bar. 4/4 is related to dancing. Unusual time signatures are difficult to dance. 3/4 Toots Thielemans. The Whistler and his Guitar (1964). “Bluesette”. 3/4 https://youtu.be/Oi4G6UmYK9U Max Roach. Jazz In 3/4 Time (1956). 3/4 https://youtu.be/6H280V8IHy8 Charles Mingus. Mingus Ah Um (1959). “Better Git It In Your Soul”. 3/4 Bill Evans. Read more…