Mailbag: Melodic Minor
A deep dive into Melodic Minor from a recent member question. We cover uses of this sound as a tonic and dominant in improvisation, a brief look at Raag Charukeshi (a related Indian raga), and then so...
21 Okt 202531min
Bach on Sunday: WTC Book I, Fugue in E minor
Today I look at a two part fugue from the Well Tempered Clavier. This one is especially well suited to the guitar. Two guitarists could play it together without any alterations of the sheet music (att...
21 Okt 20259min
Guided Practice, All-Interval Tetrachord
Today's shape turns out to be All-Interval tetrachord 0137. In the video I go through what this means, and look at some of the sounds that we can get out of this shape in various transpositions and vo...
21 Okt 202534min
"Hot House" part II
In this video I go through the fingerings that I've found for this somewhat tricky melody. I also talk about the language used in the lines, and how this relates to octatonic scales and expansions of ...
21 Okt 202531min
"Hot House" and the mysterious minor ii-V
This is part 1 of two long videos about the bebop classic tune "Hot House," by Tadd Dameron. In this episode we don't actually get into the tune itself, but work on the background by taking a close lo...
21 Okt 202534min
Anatomy of a Groove: Dog Star pt. 4, "Lush Life"
Here's a part of live concert in Brooklyn where we combine the Dog Star groove with Billy Strayhorn's "Lush Life." Check out the whole concert for free here. We made a vinyl album out of this series ...
20 Okt 202516min
Anatomy of a Groove: "Dog Star" 3
Here's a second version of the Dog Star groove, after we had been playing it live for a while and it had turned into a different tune. Although there is a studio version of this tune, I opted for this...
20 Okt 202514min
