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Modes

By on September 2, 2013 in Aeolian Mode, By Ear, By Feeling, By Knowledge, Dorian Mode, Gigger Level, Ionian Mode, Jamming 102, Lesson List, Locrian Mode, Lydian Mode, Mixolydian Mode, Music Mechanics, One-Room-School-House ORSH, Phrygian Mode

Modes sound like a scary topic to many, but are not as hard to understand and apply as they seem.  I’ll start out with a “cheat sheet” list of the 7 classic modes here, and explain them further with exercises and lessons on ways to assimilate them into your musical

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Weeblo’s Wooble jazz tune

By on September 2, 2013 in A major, Ab major, Artist Level, Bb major, Blues Scale, By Ear, By Knowledge, Cornerstone Styles, G major, Ionian Mode, jamming 103, Jamming 104, Jazz, Lesson List, Major Pentatonic Scale, Major Scale, MixoBluesian Scale, Mixolydian Mode, Music Mechanics, Staff Notation, Style Studies

Here’s a light Bop jazz tune I wrote a while back that can be a good study.  Overall the key of G major, which you will not need to stray far from in the A sections (except maybe the Eb in meas. 4).  The B sections start out in G

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Juke Gypsy – G.F. Perry tune

By on September 2, 2013 in Artist Level, Blues Scale, By Ear, By Knowledge, Cornerstone Styles, G major, Gypsy Jazz Violin, Ionian Mode, jamming 103, Jamming 104, Jazz, Lesson List, Major Pentatonic Scale, Major Scale, Music Mechanics, One-Room-School-House ORSH, Staff Notation, Style Studies

Here’s a song I wrote in 2005 for the gypsy jazz group Babik.  It’s a decent tune, but didn’t make it on our 2nd album.  I think it can successfully be played in more of a BeBop style.  Gypsy Jazz icon, Django Reinhardt had leanings towards BeBop later in his

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Bone Bossa by G. F. Perry

By on August 30, 2013 in Artist Level, Blues Scale, By Ear, By Feeling, By Key, By Knowledge, By Scale, C major, Cornerstone Styles, Gigger Level, jamming 103, Jamming 104, Jazz, Lesson List, Major Scale, Music Mechanics, One-Room-School-House ORSH, Staff Notation, Style Studies

Here’s a tune in the Bossa Nova style that Babik played live for a short time.  I was thinking of Trombone in the intro when I wrote it… hence the title.  Play the intro double stops near the frog with a down up up bowing pattern. Improv: There are not

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It’s Time to Go jazz tune by G. F. Perry

By on August 30, 2013 in A major, Artist Level, By Ear, By Knowledge, Cornerstone Styles, Dorian Mode, Ionian Mode, jamming 103, Jamming 104, Jazz, Lesson List, Major Scale, Mixolydian Mode, Music Mechanics, One-Room-School-House ORSH, Staff Notation, Style Studies

In the Jazz style.  Alternates from straight 8th Latin/Bossa-based feel in the A sections to swing in the B section.  Ensemble-oriented intro can have improv over it (see my demo below).  The melody is fairly simple, but improv will be more advanced on this one, as there is no one

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Boozoo – traditional cajun/zydeco tune

By on August 24, 2013 in “Tater”, Blues Scale, By Ear, By Key, By Knowledge, By Scale, Cajun-Zydeco, G major, Gigger Level, Isms, Skisms & Hybrids, Jamming 102, Lesson List, MixoBluesian Scale, Mixolydian Mode, Music Mechanics, One-Room-School-House ORSH, Staff Notation, Style Studies

Boozoo – traditional cajun/zydeco tune.  Key of G.  Presented in three separate parts here.  Melody, Back-up tater-ing, and bass line.  The bass line would normally be played by an actual bass instrument, but I include it for your study here.  Find two other friends to play the other parts for

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