Work, with Miles Okazaki

This is a podcast version of Miles Okazaki's patreon channel. Okazaki is a guitarist and composer based in Brooklyn, NY.

Season 1 (Monk, 65 episodes): How this podcast began: individual guitar studies of every composition by Thelonious Monk. These begin as practice videos without much talking and evolve into episodes on specific topics.

Season 2 (Fall 2024, 48 episodes): A 12-part series on the subject of Symmetry, an 8-part series on Drum rudiments with the pick, and a 5-part series on the "Allegro Assai" from J.S. Bach's C major violin sonata. Other episodes include bebop standards "Donna Lee" and "Wail," a series on the chromatic scale, favorite books, listening sessions and exercises for the ear from my book "Fundamentals of Guitar."

Season 3 (Winter 2024. 63 episodes): An 11-part series on Polyrhythms, a 7-part series on Charlie Christian's "Stompin at the Savoy" solo, a 4-part series on my song "Dog Star," the first "guided practice" episodes, close looks at the standards "Lush Life," "Hot House," and "Danny Boy," Bach on each Sunday, and listener questions. Note: a good number of episodes from this season are on sight reading, and only available as videos on Patreon.

Season 4 (Spring 2024, in progress): A 7-part series on my tune "Kudzu," a 7-part series on the drum exercise "Paradiddle Johnnie," Monday meditations on one of the 351 shapes, Studies of Bach from the Well Tempered Clavier, Art of the Fugue, Musical Offering, and Mass in B minor, listener questions. Note: a good number of episodes from this season are on sight reading, and only available as videos on Patreon.

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Symmetry 02: Diminished Resolutions in Context

Here's a video to address a member question of application of the stuff from the previous post, using examples on a minor blues and "All the Things You Are."

30 Huhti 202511min

Symmetry 01: Diminished / Leading Tone Resolutions

This will be a series of videos on a single topic that I find extremely useful, which is the use of diminished structures. We start out with thinking about the places where one diminished 7th structur...

30 Huhti 202522min

Chromatic Scale (pt. 3, Levels of Dynamics with the Pick)

Still using the Chromatic Scale, and then demonstrating with improvising on a blues. Seeing how many levels of dynamics we can get with the pick, playing with the amp turned up to 10.

30 Huhti 202512min

Chromatic Scale (pt. 2, practice ideas)

A couple more quick practice ideas for the chromatic scale, a great way to get your fingers and picking hand going.

30 Huhti 202513min

The Chromatic Scale (pt. 1, fingering)

We are switching gears away from full time Monk practice to a variety of things that I find useful. I hope you all find them useful as well. Today is a hotel room session, so a little quiet, but you c...

30 Huhti 202518min

Thelonious Monk Songbook: "'Round Midnight"

In this series from 2023-24, I go through the every one of Thelonious Monk's compositions in preparation for a marathon concert in October of 2024. The episodes start very informally, just as practice...

21 Huhti 202545min