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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:TwitterFacebookPinterestPrintEmail 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…
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Jazz Language: Play-A-Longs
Updated 2025 Jazz Play-A-Longs or backing tracks is a system created by saxophonist Jamey Aebersold in the seventies. They allow the student to play over a recording made by a rhythm section of well-known jazz musicians. The most used series are those of Jamey Aebersold and Hal Leonard. 1 Jamey Aebersold Jamey Aebersold´s Jazz Play-A-Long series are recorded by jazz musicians but they don´t play the melody of the jazz standard, just the harmony and rhythm. The piano or the bass can be silenced with the sound balance. The series can be found at: www.jazzbooks.com Jamey Aebersold. Introduction. Read more…