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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…
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Jazz Scales for Saxophone: A Roadmap for Beginners
Updated 2025 I don´t recommend playing the scales in all keys from the beginning, it´s too much information and difficult to memorize. I prefer to follow this roadmap: 1 Play C major, mixolydian and dorian scales with their melodic patterns over play-a-longs. C major scale over Jamey Aebersold Vol. 24 CD1. C dorian scale over Jamey Aebersold Vol.24 CD2 C mixolydian scale over Jamey Aebersold Vol. 84. Read more…
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“All The Things You Are” (Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II) (1939): Harmonic Analysis
How to simplify the harmonic analysis of “All The Things You Are” turning the 36 chords of the harmonic progression into 5 major modulations. Updated 2025 “All The Things You Are” is a jazz standard composed in 1939 by Jerome Kern, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, for the musical Very Warm For May (1939). “All The Things You Are” is in the key of Ab major, the form is ABCD and it has a characteristic intro-coda. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty-9G2LVFqQ “All The Things You Are”: Recording Analysis Jazz, like classical music, is an intelectual music requiring concentration to play and concentration to listen. Read more…
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Jazz Blues Exercises: The Blues as Played by Jazz Musicians
18 exercises to play the dominant blues form in C Updated 2025 Tip: play over a Play-A-Long. Read more…