Advanced Melodic Playing

Digging Deeper Jazz

English - July 12, 2021 16:00 - 16 minutes - 11.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
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Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on August 23, 2019 on the Jeff Antoniuk - Educator YouTube channel. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel and feel free to enjoy the video version as well.

FOR ALL INSTRUMENTS !

In episode #115, talk about Melodic Playing, and look at two great exercises to help develop your chops in this department. Whether you play sax or trumpet, drums or piano, guitar or bass, your job as a soloist is to play MELODIES. Licks and patterns are nice, but what about personal melodies?

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