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How to Play a Great Jazz Solo

 

Many jazz musicians believe that playing a great solo is a matter of playing melodies that fit over the chords. They learn chordal scales, standard “licks” that fit over them, pentatonics, arpeggios, patterns, etc–and believe that doing this …

Play on the pads or tips of the fingers in the left hand?

Play on the pads or tips of the fingers in the left hand?

Should string players – or any instrumentalist, for that matter – play on the pads or the tips of the fingers in the left hand? Should trumpeters …

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Review of “The Untold Secret to Melodic Bass” in Bass World Magazine

Review in Bass World Magazine, the publication of The International Society of Bassists.

[This review appeared in the August issue, Vol 35, #1, pp 54-55]

The Untold Secret to Melodic Bass

– Jon Burr

jbQ Media

$14.99

32 pages

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