Open Your Ears to Acid Jazz
Have you ever come across the genre “acid jazz” and wondered just what that might be? Discover the musical elements which tie together this fascinating genre.
How to Arrange a Jazz Standard (Hans Hansen)
Hans Hansen of “The Music Arrangers Page” explains the listening skills and sound judgements that went into this arrangement of the jazz standard “Jordu”.
Ear Training Site Profile: IWasDoingAllRight.com
IWasDoingAllRight.com offers online ear training apps. Unlike some of the other ear training app sites featured in this series though, the site has far more to offer than just these programs. We’ll do another article in future dedicated to the site’s jazz...
Ear Training Site Profile: JazzGuitar.be
Continuing in our series of ear training site profiles… Jazzguitar.be is a particularly multifaceted resource for any jazz musician, but it’s a goldmine for guitarists at a beginning to intermediate stage of jazz training. Featuring a dense list of lessons—from...
Ear Training Site Profile: JazzAdvice.com
Continuing in our series of ear training site profiles… Intro Jazzadvice.com is, unsurprisingly, a blog full of jazz advice. You probably didn’t need this article to tell you that, but the internet’s full of jazz ‘advice’ and you can waste a lot of...
Listen to Les, Part 1: The Gibson "Les Paul"
Ask a guitarist to name five famous Les Paul players and you’ll probably get Slash, Jimmy Page, Pete Townsend and Joe Perry… and maybe Ace Frehley, or the late great Gary Moore. There’s plenty of players to choose from: a quick look at the Gibson website reveals...
Jazz Guitar Giveaways – What makes that sound jazz?
An appreciation of common musical genres in important for any musician, and guitarists in particular are often called on to provide accompaniment in a specific style at the drop of a hat. Today we’re going to look at jazz guitar ‘giveaways’: musical...
Listen! Who’s Driving The Bus?
This week I’m going to be talking about the difference between driving the bus and riding the bus – but don’t worry, we aren’t taking a detour into public transport.By focusing your ears on the tricks used by great musicians to seamlessly shift...
