by Richie Zellon | Comping, Courses
Walking Bass Lines That Swing PART2 In this video I bring you the 2nd in a 2 part series on Walking Bass Lines that Swing! For those of you that didn’t have an opportunity to watch the first part, I covered the I-VI-II-V major progression which is commonly...
by Richie Zellon | Comping, Courses
Walking Bass Lines That Swing This is the first in a 2 Part Series on Walking Bass Lines. In this first part we are going to use a major chord progression as the vehicle to learn the concept. In a future 2nd part, I will cover minor chord progressions. For this lesson...
by Richie Zellon | Comping, Jazz Improvisation, Jazz Pentatonics
McCoy Tyner Jazz Guitar Lesson Tribute Transcribed from Video: This is a special tribute lesson to McCoy Tyner, a very influential jazz pianist who I was sad to learn passed away on March 6, 2020. For those guitarists who are new to jazz or not familiar with this...
by Richie Zellon | Comping
Comp over any Standard with these 2 Chord Shapes It’s fascinating how certain chord shapes can take on so many identities depending on the context you play them in. I call them chords with multi-personality disorder (LOL), which happens to be the subject of this...
by Richie Zellon | Comping, Harmonic Cadence, Jazz Improvisation
This Chord Will Revitalize Your Standards! Did you know that there’s a seldom used chord, that when used in the right places will breathe new life to those overplayed Standards? It’s one the old beboppers didn’t know about . I heard it for the first...
by Richie Zellon | Comping, Harmonic Cadence, Jazz Improvisation
Phrygian Cadences What do tunes like Miles Davis’ “Nardis”, Wayne Shorter’s “Speak No Evil”, and Chick Corea’s “Spain” & “La Fiesta” have in common? That they all employ phrygian modal cadences,...
