Jazz Science

 Greetings, dear reader.  It's been some time since I've been updating things here, as I've been more focused on the oud and Ara...

It's very common in jazz education to encourage a chord-oriented perspective on improvisation. In many ways, this makes a lot of sense ...

Here are more rootless voicings for guitar, based on the "Bill Evans" left-hand style voicings. These are mostly drop-2 chords, ...

The uses of triads for an improviser are nearly limitless. As I hinted at in my previous post on digital patterns , adding a note to a tria...

Here is a set of rootless voicings for guitar that I adapted from the stock "Bill Evans" style left-hand voicings.  I show them in...

Okay, I haven't posted in a year. Here's a little worksheet of common patterns that are often used by modern improvisers. John Col...

Here's an (IMHO) excellent exercise that trains your ears and works on connecting your hearing and improvising. I forget where I got th...