by Richie Zellon | Jazz Improvisation
Minor Pentatonics: Coltrane Perspectives 1 If you’re a guitarist, I wouldn’t be surprised if the very first scale you ever learned is the minor pentatonic ! And most likely…you first learned it to solo either over the blues or your favorite rock tune. But if you’re...
by Richie Zellon | Jazz Improvisation
Major 9th Arpeggio Superimposition If you’re an intermediate to advanced player, do you ever get tired of hearing yourself play the same old lines when improvising? Maybe you’re just in need of expanding your vocabulary or simply exploring some new melodic...
by Richie Zellon | Jazz Improvisation
Jazz Motifs with Common Tones An important resource that great jazz musicians use in order to tell a story when improvising, is the element of repetition. This is often done by stressing a note that is common to various consecutive chords in a progression. And it is...
by Richie Zellon | Jazz Improvisation
Jazz Improvisation Over-Simplified If you’re starting out with jazz improvisation and you’re overwhelmed with the amount of chords in a 32 measure standard, I think this lesson will be of utmost help. In it I show you how to improvise over almost any standard by...
by Richie Zellon | Jazz Improvisation
Bluesify your Bebop with Double Stops Do you employ double stops in your playing? In case you’re not familiar with the term, it was first devised by violinists to denote 2 notes played simultaneously. Nonetheless, it is applicable to any any polyphonic instrument!...
by Richie Zellon | Jazz Improvisation
The Most Useful Scale In Jazz If you had to pick just 1 scale to learn in order to use over most standards, what would it be? Some say the major scale or one of it modes such as the dorian or lydian. Others swear by the so called bebop scale. But if you had to use any...
