IntermediateTrumpetJazzBlues

Exploring Jazz Trumpet, by Ollie Weston

Name: Exploring Jazz Trumpet, by Ollie Weston
Brand: MusicGurus
Author: Ollie Weston

Ollie Weston

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Modules197

Replay songs48

InstrumentTrumpet

LanguageEnglish

Contents (197 modules, 48 replay)

- 01. Starting Out
- 02. What is Jazz?
- 03. Improvisation
- 04. The Trumpet in Jazz
- 05. Notation
- 06. Chapter Content
- 07. Sample Solos
- 08. Backing Tracks
- 09. Practice
- 01. The Blues
- 02. Leavin’ Town
- 03. Intervals
- 04. Tones and Semitones
- 05. The Blues Scale
- 06. Swing Quavers
- 07. Song Form
- 08. 12-Bar Blues
- 09. Head and Solos
- 10. The 12-Bar Blues Chord Sequence
- 11. Improvising
- 12. Sample Solo - Leavin’ Town
- 01. Building a triad
- 02. Chords and Passing Tones
- 03. Major seventh workout
- 04. The 12 Key Dilemma
- 05. Embellishing Simple Phrases
- 06. Major Pentatonic Scale
- 07. Pentatonics in all keys
- 08. Horn Section Playing
- 09. Using the Blues
- 10. Blue note resolution
- 11. Major 7th Heaven
- 12. Lead Sheets
- 01. Major and Minor Keys
- 02. The Minor Seventh Chord
- 03. Minor Seventh Chord Passing Tones
- 04. Minor Scale Variations
- 05. Dorian Mode / Minor Seventh Chord Workout
- 06. Minor seventh chord lick
- 07. The Minor Pentatonic Scale
- 08. Relative Major / Minor
- 09. Minor Pentatonic Patterns
- 10. Using the Blues Over Minor Sevenths
- 11. Triplets
- 12. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
- 13. So Far, So Good
- 14. Passing Tones and Extensions
- 01. Creating a Seventh Chord
- 02. The Tritone Interval
- 03. The Mixolydian mode
- 04. Mixolydian workout
- 05. Main chord types from the same root
- 06. Using a metronome
- 07. Beats 2 and 4
- 08. The seventh chord in the 12-bar blues
- 09. Thirds and sevenths of the 12-bar blues
- 10. The Major Vs. Minor triad in the Blues
- 11. Sonny’s Blues
- 12. Major and Minor triad
- 13. Developing a lick
- 01. Pearly White
- 02. Half-time feel
- 03. Pearly White - sample solo
- 04. Jazz / Funk
- 05. Down To It
- 06. Down To It - sample solo
- 01. Diatonic and Chromatic
- 02. Modes of the Major Scale
- 03. The modes of C Major
- 04. Chord / Passing tones of C Major modes
- 05. Modal workout
- 06. Modes from a static root
- 07. Lydian line through a modal sequence
- 08. Use of modes in jazz and popular music
- 09. First Impression
- 01. The perfect cadence
- 02. Tritone within a 7th chord
- 03. The cycle of fifths
- 04. Dominant seventh chords with the cycle of fifths
- 05. Rhythm changes bridge
- 06. The perfect cadence in jazz
- 07. II-V-I
- 08. II-V-I licks
- 09. Licks in all keys
- 10. Dancing With Duke - head
- 11. Dancing With Duke - sample solo
- 12. Dancing With Duke - guide tones
- 01. Relative Major and Minor
- 02. Cycle of fifths with relative minor keys
- 03. Melodic and Harmonic Minor
- 04. Leading note within the dominant seventh chord
- 05. The harmonic Minor scale in Minor cadences
- 06. Minor V7-Im7
- 07. Minor V7-I in twelve keys
- 08. Minor V7-I lick
- 09. Minor cadences in jazz progressions
- 10. Phrygian to harmonic minor
- 11. The Minor seven flat five chord
- 12. Autumn Sun
- 13. Feel and Swing
- 14. Autumn Sun - sample solo
- 15. Using the Dorian mode on root Minor seventh chords
- 01. Among The Stars
- 02. Using chords III and VI
- 03. III-VI-II-V-I progression
- 04. Expanding a chord sequence
- 05. The II7 chord
- 06. Undying Love - head
- 07. Rhythmic exercise
- 08. Turnarounds
- 09. Take The Express Train
- 10. Modulation to chord four
- 01. Chromaticism
- 02. Articulation
- 03. The Bebop scale
- 04. 52nd St. Blues
- 05. Bebop Soloing
- 01. Flying with the Bird
- 02. Rhythm Changes
- 03. Bebop language
- 04. Syncopation
- 05. Phrasing
- 06. Range and stamina
- 07. Latin Music
- 08. Bossa Nova bass line
- 09. Super Nova
- 10. Straight Quavers
- 11. Anticipated rhythms
- 12. Non-diatonic notes
- 13. Ballads
- 14. Sleepless Eyes
- 15. Tone and vibrato
- 16. Blues Shuffle
- 17. Times Square Shuffle
- 01. What Now?
- 02. Further Study
- 03. Transcription
- 04. Real Books
- 05. Transposition
- 01. 1920s - Early Days
- 02. 1930s - The Big Bands (Swing era)
- 03. 1940s and 50s - Bebop
- 04. Mid 1950s - Hardbop
- 05. 1960 - Modal jazz and beyond
- 06. Late 1960s and 70s - Soul jazz and Fusion
- 07. 1980s onwards
- 01. Selected Biographies
- 02. Index
- 03. Track Listings
- 01. Fig 1.1 Leavin Town
- 02. Fig 1.2 Leavin Town (bluesed-up version)
- 03. Fig 1.9a Write your own 12-bar blues
- 04. Fig 1.10 Sample Blues solo - Leavin Town
- 05. Fig 2.5a Major seventh workout (C, Eb, Gb, A)
- 06. Fig 2.5b Major seventh workout (Db, E, G, Bb)
- 07. Fig 2.5c Major seventh workout (D, F, Ab, B)
- 08. Fig 2.14 Major 7th Heaven
- 09. Fig 3.4a Minor Seventh Workout
- 10. Fig 3.4b Minor Seventh Workout
- 11. Fig 3.4c Minor Seventh Workout
- 12. Fig 3.15a So Far, So Good
- 13. Fig 4.5a Mixolydian workout
- 14. Fig 4.5b Mixolydian workout
- 15. Fig 4.5c Mixolydian workout
- 16. Fig 4.13 Sonnys Blues
- 17. Fig 5.1 Pearly White
- 18. Fig 5.2b Pearly White - Sample Solo
- 19. Fig 5.3 Down To It
- 20. Fig 6.3 Modal workout
- 21. Fig 6.4 Modal sequence from a static root
- 22. Fig 6.6 Lydian line through a modal sequence
- 23. Fig 6.9 First Impression
- 24. Fig 7.3a and 7.3b Cadences
- 25. Fig 7.6 Third and seventh notes of each dominant chord
- 26. Fig 7.7 Guide tone line with swing rhythm
- 27. Fig 7.8 Rhythm Changes bridge
- 28. Fig 7.10a II-V-I in twelve keys
- 29. Fig 7.11a Dancing With Duke (Head)
- 30. Fig 8.13 Minor V7-I in twelve keys
- 31. Fig 8.14 Minor V7-lm7 lick
- 32. Fig 8.16 Diatonic chord sequence with chord types and guide tones
- 33. Fig 8.20 Autumn Sun (Head)
- 34. Fig 9.1 Among The Stars
- 35. Fig 9.3a and 9.3b 'A' section of 'Undying Love'
- 36. Fig 9.4 Undying Love - Head
- 37. Fig 9.6 Rhythmic exercise
- 38. Fig 9.7a Take The Express Train A section
- 39. Fig 9.7b Take The Express Train expanded sequence
- 40. Fig 9.7c III-VI-II-V-I
- 41. Fig 9.8a Take The Express Train - Head
- 42. Fig 10.1 52nd St. Blues head with I, IV, V changes
- 43. Fig 10.5 II-V-I to C7
- 44. Fig 10.8 52nd St. Blues
- 45. Fig 11 Flying With The Bird
- 46. Fig 11.2a Super Nova
- 47. Fig 11.7 Sleepless Eyes
- 48. Fig 11.8 Times Square Shuffle

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Meet the Guru

Ollie Weston

Since graduating from the Leeds College of Music (BA Hons) and the Guildhall School of Music (Post Graduate Diploma in Performance), Ollie has built a busy and varied career in music. As a saxophonist he has performed in live and studio settings with artists as diverse as Amy Winehouse, Tim Minchin, Bonobo, Frank Turner, the London Jazz Orchestra, the Hackney Colliery Band, the Ambient Jazz Ensemble and the Nelson Riddle Orchestra. He is also the co-leader of the jazz quartet 'Time Is Of The Essence', and composes and arranges material for this and other ensembles.

Ollie is active in music education, currently as course leader for the jazz department at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (junior school), where he runs jazz ensembles, big band and theory classes. He has written a series of 'Exploring Jazz' books for Schott Music that are published worldwide and feature on exam syllabuses in the UK. Ollie has also run workshops for Oxford University, Pro Corda Strings and BABSWE, as well as the Guildhall School of Music summer schools.

In his Exploring Jazz Saxophone courses, Ollie takes you from getting started right through to soloing confidently over songs and chord sequences, building the improvising skills that put a real jazz player's vocabulary at your fingertips.

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