Thanks for all the kind comments on my MasterBuilder video. I transcribed what I played over the weekend and you can now purchase the sheet music with the performance track on my sheet music page. Assuming you learn the sheet music, your performance should sound pretty much the same as the one on the video. […]
Tag Archives: cross rhythm
I am a big fan of cross rhythms which I would define as playing patterns that intentionally do not align uniformly with the beat divisions they are played on. I know that sounds complicated but here is an example. Let’s say that you repeat a four note pattern on top of a triplet rhythm. Because the […]
As we continue our series on texture, I want to give you one of my favorite things today. I would call it one of my secrets but of course, it is not mine at all. I stole it from other people (in particular my jazz friends). I think that we musicians tend to fall into […]
Yesterday, I posted a new free arrangement . If you have not downloaded it yet, just click on that link and you will get it instantly. There are a few things going on in this arrangement that I want to talk about really quickly. One is a harmonic idea and one is a rhythmic thing. […]