Tag Archives: Slonimsky

MOVES to the rescue !

Posted on October 31, 2015 by jazzpanflute

You would have thought that the bass guitar was one of the most logical and intuitive instruments around. It even beats the 6-string guitar because its tuning only uses fourths (=5 halfsteps), while the guitar slips in a stray major third … Continue reading →

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Why Saxophonists are so Annoying

Posted on June 27, 2015 by jazzpanflute

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 →

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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 →

Posted on June 19, 2014 by jazzpanflute | 5 Comments