Bebop “heads,” what jazz players sometimes call the melody of a tune, tend to be some of the trickiest and most technically demanding strings of notes you’re likely to encounter. Much busier than classic jazz standards, these intricate melodies are generally more difficult to learn, understand, and commit to memory. ...Read More

As musicians, we often treat the songs of the jazz repertoire in the same predictable way. We learn the chords, memorize the notes of the melody, and then we skip ahead to the important stuff - Improvising our own solos over the tune... But is this really all that jazz ...Read More

When you’re first starting out on your journey learning how to play jazz, you'll typically come across two different camps of how to go about things... One camp believes that you need a lot of music theory, particularly scales and modes, along with an understanding of how modes are applied ...Read More

Beyond scales, music theory, and all those memorized licks lies something that gets to the core of what improvisation is all about - the art of crafting musical ideas. It's what we often refer to as phrasing... The ability to take a tune, hear its melody, understand its chord progression, ...Read More

Always searching for a new sound to explore and share with the world, jazz musicians are constantly trying to evolve and push the music forward, reaching for something different and exciting... And this is exactly how modal jazz came about. Legends like Herbie Hancock, Bill Evans, Joe Henderson, Wayne Shorter, ...Read More