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Page o’ coordination: the with interruptions – 04

  • April 17, 2019
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I don’t like giving you pages with too many patterns on them. When I do that, the idea is that you move through the patterns quickly, and cover them all in one unit of practice— […]

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Page o’ coordination: That with interruptions – 03

  • April 5, 2019
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 I like this little series. Nothing radically innovative, but a slightly different way of thinking about normal jazz comping vocabulary, courtesy of John Riley. These pages aren’t ordered for total beginners— if I were teaching […]

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Page o’ coordination: that with interruptions – 02

  • March 29, 2019
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Another page of basic jazz comping/independence patterns, coming from a slightly different angle. At a recent John Riley clinic, he talked about one pattern he had been practicing, with variations, for about 50 years: SSBB. […]

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Page o’ coordination: that with interruptions

  • February 22, 2019
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A rare opportunity to do a POC in 4, with lightning turnaround, no less. I attended a clinic by John Riley and Terrell Stafford in Portland this afternoon, and they were each telling what they […]

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