Guitarist Lucas Michailidis details his unique triadic approach to comping and improvisation. Included is a comprehensive guide to all triad inversions along with how these can be superimposed to generate a range of extended chords and alternative possibilities.
Click > HERE < to download a pdf of the lesson
Here’s some links to Lucas’ music
and also this is a link to all his music on iTunes
September 28, 2012
Doug de Vries gives a lesson on how to doubble your chord output when playing jazz on the guitar. Using the standard “All the things you are” he quickly demonstrates how to add interest and contrast to your accompaniment using this simple technique.
Click > HERE < to download a pdf of this lesson
Have a listen to Doug’s music on iTunes
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August 24, 2012
Leo gives a sax lesson on how to keep the various registers of the sax in tune. Using the interval of the 6th and some handy tips he picked up from studying J. S. Bach’s cello suites.
Click > HERE < to download a pdf of the lesson
Listen to Leo’s music here
And then there’s all the Oxo Cubans albums on iTunes
August 18, 2012
Dean explains how to slide effortlessly into the altissimo register of the sax in one long continuously ascending note.
Click > HERE < to download a pdf of the lesson
Listen to Dean’s music here
August 1, 2012
Tim Nikolsky demonstrates how to do Walking Basslines on Guitar. Tim has been performing with the vocalist Margot Leighton for the past 13 years and has developed a unique style of playing in this musical duo incorporating the whole rhythm section on guitar. The technique of walking bass on guitar is also a great way to accompany other instrumentalists and soloists. Here he demonstrates the secrets of good accompanying on guitar; and breaks down his approach to walking basslines on guitar – step by step.
Click HERE to download a pdf of the lesson
Visit Tim online here
whitewithtwo.com
australianjazzrealbook.com
youtube.com/timnikolsky
June 18, 2012
Anton Delecca explains the uses of chromatic scales in jazz improvisation and as a warm up excercise for sax. In this video, Anton describes three excersices for warm up that improve tone and dexterity and are very useful to enliven passages of improvisation.
This video works together with a pdf of the lesson available here
Visit Anton website
Anton’s album is available on iTunes
June 28, 2011
Paul Williamson explains the uses of bebop scales in jazz improvisation. In this video, Paul’s first post for Digital Pill, he describes the construction of bebop scales, jazz articulation, the use of a metronome and how bebop scales place the chord tones firmly ON the beat to create an “inside” sound in improvisation. The video together with the pdf download explain the uses of bebop scales over major, dominant and minor scales.
Click the links below to download a pdf of each of the lessons
Lesson 1
Lesson 2
Lesson 3
Lesson 4
Lesson 5
Lesson 6
Listen to Paul’s music here
Paul playing with Way out West on myspace
Way Out West – Old Grooves for New Streets available from iTunes
and from CDbaby
And last but not least check out this footage of Paul I shot at the gig
October 19, 2010
Dean looks at long notes from several different angles – the growl, vibrato, dynamics and ear training.
Listen to Dean’s music here
August 20, 2010
Vocalist Lisa Young sings and explains examples of konnakol, the spoken rhythms of South Indian music.
download the pdf of the Sa Ri Ga rhythms here
Visit Lisa’s website
And here’s a link to her album Grace (awarded best Australian Jazz Vocal album of the year)
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October 29, 2012
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