Any guitar students who have decided to pursue jazz guitar lessons will always be given the same advice; learn as many II V I (2 5 1) licks as possible. I found this advice especially helpful when I began studying jazz improvisation, as if you are unfamiliar with the style, these will help guide your ear towards phrasing more like a jazz guitarist, rather than say, a rock guitarist. In…
Read MoreJazz Theory Lesson – “Blues For Alice” – Analysing a Jazz Standard
In today’s free online music lesson, we will be analysing Charlie Parker’s jazz standard “Blues For Alice” – focusing particularly on Parker’s note choices in the head and the relationship they have with the chords. I feel that any musician can learn a lot about music theory from analysing jazz standards, and with “Blues For Alice” being one of my favourite jazz tunes of all time, I thought it would…
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