Tag Archives: intuitive improvising

Get your first scale free?

Posted on October 9, 2015 by jazzpanflute

Remember all those collections they use to sell at the newsagents, offering you a free binder with the first instalment? As if you wouldn’t end up paying for it in the end! The idea was that once it was in … Continue reading →

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MOVES: Melodic Freedom for the Classically Chained

Posted on June 7, 2015 by jazzpanflute

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 →

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How to work a lick

Posted on December 4, 2014 by jazzpanflute

So you can’t get that lick or turnaround out of your head. You wonder how anyone can just come up with something that cool –  just like that! – in the middle of a solo. You realize it’s time to … Continue reading →

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Musical Chromosomes

Posted on June 24, 2014 by jazzpanflute

Working with whole tone panpipes has for me been a liberating experience, a shortcut to what they call stage 4 competence in NLP or what I call “mindless playing”. For those unfamiliar with Romanian panpipes, I should explain that the semitones are obtained … Continue reading →

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MOVES notation doesn’t tell the whole story. The 8 leap in the James Bond theme is not the same as the 8 leap in the Love Story theme. In classical theory, the first is an augmented fifth and the second … Continue reading →

Posted on June 3, 2014 by jazzpanflute | 2 Comments