Oleo - Rhythm Changes, demonstration of techniques gibson barney kessel

Rhythm Changes is one of the staples of jazz playing. There are a million ways to approach playing over rhythm changes and in this play-through, I use a number of techniques over it including:

1) traditional outlining of the changes (never forgetting the B natural and Ab of the 2nd chord - the 3rd and b9)
2) Blues licks
3) Side stepping using 4ths
4) Side stepping using pentatonics
5) Playing over it with 1/2 step displacement (playing over Bmaj7 instead of the real changes in Bb)
6) Altered dominant chords (min7 1/2 step up from the roots)
7) Chordal anticipation (emphasizing beat 4 of the cadence prior to the Bbmaj7 chord)

I will break this down in a future lesson so it's more apparent some of the techniques that are available.

Thanks again for listening and all your support. Love you guys.

Peace, out.

Jaz

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