🎵 Play A Great Standard In One Month – Stella – Week 2
Last week, we began our study of "Stella By Starlight" by developing a practical set of voicings through the entire form.
This week, we're taking those voicings and putting them into a more musical context:
👉 A basic chord melody.
Circle of 4ths with various chord types.
🎵 New Series Alert – Play A Great Standard In One Month!
We've spent the last two series taking a deep dive into two of the most important forms in jazz:
• Play A Great Blues In 3 Months
• Play A Great Rhythm Changes In 3 Months
Those 14-week series gave us plenty of time to develop comping, voicings, melodic vocabulary, substitutions, and improvisational concepts over forms that show up everywhere in jazz.
Now we're ready to move a little faster.
👉 Play A Great Standard In One Month
🎵 Play A Great Rhythm Changes In 3 Months – Week 14
We've made it to Week 14 and the final lesson in our Play A Great Rhythm Changes In 3 Months series!
Over the course of this series, we've worked through rhythm changes from a number of different angles:
• Common four-mallet voicings
• Comping rhythms
• Guide tones and 3rds & 7ths
• Bebop, diminished, and chromatic vocabulary
• Chord and scale outlinings
• Substitute harmony
• Longer melodic phrases
• Transposition and register considerations
🎵 Play A Great Rhythm Changes In 3 Months – Week 13
Last week, we moved rhythm changes from B♭ into F, beginning our work on taking the concepts from this series into different keys.
This week, we're staying in F, but we're shifting our attention back to comping.
👉 More specifically, we're returning to the voicings from Week 1 and transposing them into our new key.
On paper, that sounds simple: take every voicing from B♭ and move it into F.
On the vibraphone, however, it doesn't always work that way.
🎵 Play A Great Rhythm Changes In 3 Months – Week 12
Over the past seven weeks, we've built a strong vocabulary for rhythm changes through guide tones, chord outlinings, scale motion, substitutions, and bebop language.
This week, we introduce something equally important:
👉 Playing in a new key.
