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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…
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Basic Syncopated Rhythmic Patterns
Common rhythmic patterns used in the jazz language Updated 2025 Basic Syncopated Rhythmic Patterns Model Template Youtube Channel https://youtu.be/00Q4mqhGtgo Jazz Articulations Scales Study with Syncopated Rhythm Pattern 1 https://youtu.be/M9DHCuKE7ws Basic Syncopated Rhythmic Pattern Combinations with the Major Scale Basic Syncopated Rhythmic Pattern Combinations with the Major (Blues) Pentatonic Scale Basic Syncopated Rhythmic Patterns in Jazz Standard Melodies Jazz Scales: A Roadmap for Beginners copyright©danielfedele2025 Share this:TwitterFacebookPinterestPrintEmail Read more…