by Richie Zellon | Jazz Improvisation
Develop Your Own Bebop Vocabulary Do you ever feel like you’re playing the same old ideas over and over again every time you take a solo? If you answered yes, you’re not alone! As a matter of fact, when I graduated from Berklee College of Music in the early 80’s, I...
by Richie Zellon | Jazz Improvisation
Jazz & The Zen of Playing Wrong Notes Have you ever transcribed or simply tried to analyze a solo by one of your favorite players and found that in more than one measure, there were notes that absolutely did not relate to the prescribed chord? Strangely enough,...
by Richie Zellon | Jazz Improvisation, Wes Montgomery
18 Bebop Licks by Wes Montgomery A few weeks ago I posted a lesson titled “18 Bebop licks by Charlie Parker”. Here is a video doing the same, only that with some Wes Montgomery transcriptions! In the Charlie Parker video I analyzed the makeup of 18 licks and showed...
by Richie Zellon | Jazz Improvisation
18 Bebop Licks by Charlie Parker If you want to grow your bebop vocabulary, you need to resort to its most respected source…Charlie Parker! And that is exactly what I did for this lesson. I carefully analyzed various Charlie Parker heads and extracted 18 licks which I...
by Richie Zellon | Jazz Improvisation
5 Practice Habits of Great Jazz Musicians by Richie Zellon | Jazz Improvisation This post includes the 3 Part Series: “5 Practice Habits of Great Jazz Musicians”. Part 1 covers Habit 1: “Great Jazz Musicians Push The Envelope” and explains how...
by Richie Zellon | Jazz Improvisation
The Secret Bebop Rhythm Cell Revealed! When teaching rhythms in jazz improvisation there is an important 2 note rhythm cell that very, very few players seldom mention. Nonetheless, in this lesson I tell you all about it so you too can start using! And believe me when...
