Jocko's Jazz Banjo Page (or: relax, you can do this)

I had this dream the other night where I was back in high school and, for whatever reason, was spending a semester studying drums. In these...

When you play the head to a song like this, it's important not to take the written rhythms literally! It almost always sounds stilte...

An interesting jazz solo will take into account various layers of our perception of the tune, all of which influence each other. So - the ...

We’re going to consider a particular way of comping on You Are Too Beautiful. First let’s look at one of the chords used, a Gm9 in drop-C t...

Over the next two posts we’re going to look at some scale patterns you can use to solo over “You Are Too Beautiful.” My original idea was ...

https://soundcloud.com/jocko-macnelly/you-are-2-bfl-72618-832-pm One of the great joys in jazz music is playing over ballads. Phrasing is...

Now in your standard bluegrass arrangement, the mando guy will spend a lot of time hitting their chop chords on beats 2 and 4, what we cal...