by Paul Roth | Jan 19, 2018 | Inspiration
Alright, first post of the year! Considering this time of the year, I wanted to make this first post a bit more of an inspirational post, rather than so much a meaty post about musical concepts. I was inspired in one of my first lessons of the year by a conversation...
by Paul Roth | Dec 14, 2017 | Lead
A few weeks ago I wrote a beginner’s guide to improvisation in which I promised some more tips for when you get over that initial point of simply “how do I even improvise”. In between then and now we had some fantastic posts (Part 1 & Part 2) by...
by Paul Roth | Nov 9, 2017 | Lead, Scales, Solo
This week’s post is inspired by one of our subscribers so thanks again for all you support, readership and feedback. For any beginner player (and even intermediate or advanced) improvisation can be daunting, I’ve seen this many times on...
by Paul Roth | Oct 26, 2017 | Chords, Musicianship
Today we have another more advanced topic (jazz nerds rejoice), all about creating chord melodies. This can be done compositionally, or with any pop/folk song, but today it’s going to be focused on taking that from a jazz standard. Then, of course, if you are...
by Paul Roth | Oct 19, 2017 | Chords
This week’s blog will be relatively short, really aimed at more advanced players looking at delving into jazz, or at least looking to have some jazz influence in their playing. A lot of the principles for learning these inversions are similar to those...
