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Please check out the new page on the website called Practice Tools. This page will contain various original resources for musicians to deepen their understanding and practice of music. As of today there is one sample PDF to get started but over time I will add new PDFs and videos exploring different aspects of melody, harmony, rhythm, practice technique, theory, and more. 
All PDFs will eventually be compiled into an e-book called Melodic Intervals. Over the past decade I have been developing, practicing, and documenting various intervallic exercises for myself, and this year I have a goal of sharing these tools in the clearest and most logical way for students of any experience level to use.
Today's sample PDF is a chord scale sequence that I use to practice modes and chord types. I hope you find it useful. What kinds of music exercises would you like to see next?
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If you're not familiar with the album Stan Getz and the Oscar Peterson Trio, please check it out immediately! It's one of my favorite albums of all time, and features "The Sound" Stan Getz backed by the most swinging band in history, the Oscar Peterson Trio (Oscar Peterson on piano, Herb Ellis on guitar, and Ray Brown on bass). The last track Blues For Herky is a fun 12-bar blues in C that contains some great language for guitar. You will find the first three choruses of the guitar part transcribed, followed by the three-chorus saxophone solo. All six of those choruses are written out in the key of C for guitar and the key of D for Bb instruments in a four-page PDF. Head over to my transcriptions page to find this PDF along with many others for your study and enjoyment. Thank you.  Happy New Year everyone! Please enjoy the latest audiovisual project by upcoming rap artist Graphyti featuring the Young Fellaz Brass Band, New Orleans Saints hype song WHO DAT! Lyrics by Graphyti
Music by Graphyti and Young Fellaz Brass Band Recorded by Seth Bailin Produced by Seth Bailin and Graphyti Video edited by Graphyti Musicians featured in the video: Graphyti, Rogerick Andrews, Kernell Andrews, Thaddeaus Ramsey, Roy Lancaster, Daimon Thomas, Seth Bailin, Justin Terrell, Revert Andrews, and Glen Joseph Andrews Buy the song on iTunes Follow the Young Fellaz Brass Band Follow Graphyti
​Enjoy these two new offerings of sample-based audio collages. I do not own the rights to this music.
I just finished two solo transcriptions of saxophone master Sonny Stitt playing the blues which you can download for free on my transcriptions page. I believe it's important to learn and analyze the musical language of the masters when studying any particular type of music. Thus, a study of Jazz saxophone would not be complete without digging into Sonny Stitt. Bud's Blues is a recording from 1949 with Stitt on Tenor. It is a Bb blues, transposed to C for tenor sax. Stitt plays one chorus of the melody followed by four choruses of improvisation.
Cool Blues is a recording from 1958 with Stitt on Alto. It is an Eb blues transposed to C to alto sax. Stitt plays one chorus of the melody followed by six choruses of improvisation. Then, after laying out for 3 choruses for the piano, he plays two more choruses of improvisation and one last chorus of the melody.  Happy flashback Friday, y'all. On this day 5 years ago, The Party Band was celebrating the release of our debut album Transcendenta, at an all-day, all-ages, showcase of local music called Pure Cosmic Bop / Heavy Space Jams 4: The Meltdown. Big thanks to everyone that was involved, from all of the bands that performed, to the sound engineers who worked long hours to make the show go off without a hitch, to the venue crew for accommodating such a raucous collection of bands, to the fans who supported our kickstarter, bought merchandise, or just came out to the show. Lastly and most importantly I want to thank the band for putting in the time and energy to write, rehearse, perform, and record our original music. Order a physical copy or download the Party Band's debut album here: https://nicebass.bandcamp.com/album/transcendenta (CDs out of print but vinyl records are still available!) 
Enjoy this video from Sunday Gras at Allways Cabaret. The Band is Sabertooth Swing and the personnel is: Dan Ruch - trumpet / Joshua Ratner - trombone / Seth Bailin - sax / Romain Beauxis - guitar / Spike Perkins - bass / Rob Montgomery - drums
Video shot and edited by Mike Parks Since August, I have had the pleasure of working with the ReNEW SciTech Academy Marching Band as the Woodwind Instructor. The band is comprised of mostly first-year students between 2nd and 8th grade. This carnival season, the students will be marching in 8 parades, playing a challenging repertoire which they hone at rehearsals every day after school. The Sweet Sound of Uptown will appear at the following parades: Friday, Feb 22 - Krewe of Excalibur - 7:30pm Sunday, Feb 24 - Krewe of Femme Fatale - 11am Wednesday, Feb 27 - Krewe of Nyx - 7pm Thursday, Feb 28 - Krewe of Chaos - 6:15pm Friday, March 1 - Krewe of Hermes - 6pm Saturday, March 2 - Krewe of Iris - 11am Sunday, March 3 - Krewe of Bacchus - 5:15pm Fat Tuesday, March 5 - Krewe of Zulu - 8am  Thanks to Johnny Ginn and Care Diem Films for shooting this video at the Dumaine St Gang secondline feat. the Young Rollers and Da Truth Brass Band.
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