Jazz (not just) for Piano
"How does THAT work?!"
This free educational resource is a “look under the hood” at some great Jazz compositions and solos.
This Weeks Featured Analysis
November 6, 2024 – Herbie Nichols – Step Tempest – Delayed key centre resolution
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Feel free to go directly to any section that you are interested in. For anyone looking for a more systematic approach, the titles below can be followed like a course of study. Use the tabs at the top of the page to get started. Have fun!
1 – Rhythm – Three constituent parts: Pulse, Period and Pattern.
2 – Intervals – The Perfect Group, Thirds Group and Seconds Group.
3 – Chords Part 1: Naming Chords, Third Stacks & Indeterminates.
Chords Part 2: Advanced – Fourth Stacks, 1-3-7s & Shells.
Related: Upper Structure Triads.
4 – Scales Part 1: – Symmetrical.
Scales Part 2: Compound, Stylistic.
5 – Aural Logic – Repetition, Traceable Movement & Expectations.
6 – Changes Part 1: The Blues, Minor Jazz, Chains & Substitutions.
Changes Part 2: Advanced, Open & Collective Forms.
Related: Getting Started, Foundational Blues, The Gospel Influence, Coltrane Changes, Modal Jazz.
7 – Preparational Analysis: Definition & Approach.
Our Analysis: The inner workings of great Jazz music.
8 – Our Approach to Improvisation: The Creative Spectrum.
9 – Things We Like: Recorded Jazz 1955-70.
Related: Paul Bley, Pulse Drummers.
Improvising...
“I mean, that’s what improvisation is. It is the ability to communicate with the geniuses that have preceded us, to come with reverence to obtain some personal meaning from their universe and translate it for ourselves and give to those who follow.” Cecil Taylor
