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Why Saxophonists are so Annoying
Last week a friend, who remembered me from back in the day when I used to play saxophone, invited me to come on a gig with him in Paris. I wondered how come he didn’t know any sax players in … Continue reading
Posted in Moves notation, Musicianship
Tagged chromatic exercises, chromatic patterns, Coltrane Licks, John Coltrane, Slonimsky
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MOVES: Melodic Freedom for the Classically Chained
Followers of this blog (both of you) will have noticed that I like to quote the NLP adage: “The Map is not the Territory”. And one of my main beefs about most traditional musical instruments, when it comes to learning … Continue reading
Posted in Interval Training, Moves notation, Musicianship
Tagged chromatic exercises, Classical theory, ear training, guitar scales, improvisation method, improvising, interval names, interval training, intervallic awareness, intervallic improvising, intervallic notation, intuitive improvising, MOVES notation
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Anyone trying learn the bridge of Jimmy Rowles’ sublime composition “The Peacocks” will end up consciously or otherwise doing a MOVES breakdown of the patterns it contains. In the illustration you can see the bracketed patterns are {-1 -3 -1 +3} and {-9 … Continue reading
Intervallic Awareness for Improvisers 