Jazz Piano Lesson: Approach Patterns with George Whitty
Understanding scales, modes, and chord tone structure is critical to building a great jazz piano solo and learning how to improvise. However, restricting your playing to diatonic scale patterns is not the only method of improvisation. In fact, veering away from traditional scale structure and incorporating notes that are outside of a piece’s harmonic context will allow you to achieve that authentic “jazz sound” when performing a solo. Embracing chromaticism in your piano playing is crucial to developing your jazz vocabulary.
Jazz Piano Lesson: Approach Patterns
Understanding scales, modes, and chord tone structure is critical to building a great jazz piano solo and learning how to improvise. However, restricting your playing to diatonic scale patterns is not the only method of improvisation. In fact, veering away from traditional scale structure and incorporating notes that are outside of a piece’s harmonic context will allow you to achieve that authentic “jazz sound” when performing a solo. Embracing chromaticism in your piano playing is crucial to developing your jazz vocabulary.
Mandolin Lesson: How to Hold the Mandolin
It’s often easy to forget that performing on a musical instrument is as much a physical endeavor as it is a mental one. As such, employing proper posture and holding the instrument correctly is critical to playing with excellent technique, performing in a relaxed manner with minimal tension, and reducing the risk of physical injury. So players of all levels will want to get this mandolin fundamental right.
Mandolin Lesson: How to Hold the Mandolin
It’s often easy to forget that performing on a musical instrument is as much a physical endeavor as it is a mental one. As such, employing proper posture and holding the instrument correctly is critical to playing with excellent technique, performing in a relaxed manner with minimal tension, and reducing the risk of physical injury. So players of all levels will want to get this mandolin fundamental right.
New Podcast: Craig & Sarah – Building Your Practice Roadmap
In this week’s episode of the ArtistWorks Music Series podcast, ArtistWorks CEO Patricia Butler sits down with world-renowned ukulele players and ArtistWorks instructors Craig Chee and Sarah Maisel to discuss the concept of building a practice roadmap, and the best approaches to making your practice time efficient, successful, and fun! The show is available wherever you listen to podcasts, or you can listen here at ArtistWorks.
New Podcast: Craig & Sarah – Building Your Practice Roadmap
In this week’s episode of the ArtistWorks Music Series podcast, ArtistWorks CEO Patricia Butler sits down with world-renowned ukulele players and ArtistWorks instructors Craig Chee and Sarah Maisel to discuss the concept of building a practice roadmap, and the best approaches to making your practice time efficient, successful, and fun! The show is available wherever you listen to podcasts, or you can listen here at ArtistWorks.
Fiddle Lesson: Bow Speed, Pressure, & Placement with Darol Anger
There are three critical elements that define proper bowing technique that require close monitoring when learning to play the fiddle—bow speed, pressure, and placement. In this online fiddle lesson, master fiddler, ArtistWorks instructor, and founding member of the David Grisman Quintet, Darol Anger outlines the vast array of rich, complex tones that can be achieved on the fiddle by employing subtle nuances to the speed of the bow’s stroke, pressure of the bow on the strings, and the placement of the bow on the strings in relation to the bridge.
Fiddle Lesson: Bow Speed, Pressure, & Placement
There are three critical elements that define proper bowing technique that require close monitoring when learning to play the fiddle—bow speed, pressure, and placement. In this online fiddle lesson, master fiddler, ArtistWorks instructor, and founding member of the David Grisman Quintet, Darol Anger outlines the vast array of rich, complex tones that can be achieved on the fiddle by employing subtle nuances to the speed of the bow’s stroke, pressure of the bow on the strings, and the placement of the bow on the strings in relation to the bridge.
Guthrie Trapp Joins Billy Gibbons Tribute Show Lineup
After decades of hard work, commitment, passion, and perseverance, there may come a time for a small handful of musicians when they’re called upon to perform by one of their lifelong musical heros. For master country guitarist and ArtistWorks instructor, Guthrie Trapp, this very experience just recently occurred.
Guthrie Trapp Joins Billy Gibbons Tribute Show Lineup
After decades of hard work, commitment, passion, and perseverance, there may come a time for a small handful of musicians when they’re called upon to perform by one of their lifelong musical heros. For master country guitarist and ArtistWorks instructor, Guthrie Trapp, this very experience just recently occurred.