IntellectualMusician.com » Caleb Raney http://intellectualmusician.com -Where Musicians Come To Think Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:33:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 en Chord Melody 101. Part One of Two. http://intellectualmusician.com/craney/chord-melody-101-part-one-of-two http://intellectualmusician.com/craney/chord-melody-101-part-one-of-two#comments Sat, 18 Aug 2007 17:54:48 +0000 Caleb Raney omitted http://intellectualmusician.com/craney/chord-melody-101-part-one-of-two Some basic skills in arranging jazz standards for solo playing are a great addition to a jazz guitarist’s abilities for several reasons:

1. With a large enough rep or enough skill to arrange tunes on the fly you can stop splitting up the money from all those “music to be ignored by gigs” that we all love so much. (more…)

]]> http://intellectualmusician.com/craney/chord-melody-101-part-one-of-two/feed Modes De-Mystified http://intellectualmusician.com/craney/modes-de-mystified http://intellectualmusician.com/craney/modes-de-mystified#comments Thu, 17 May 2007 18:51:52 +0000 Caleb Raney http://intellectualmusician.com/craney/modes-de-mystified I’m sure a lot of you out there who are just getting into jazz have heard about modes. And if your experience was anything like mine what you’ve heard is very difficult to understand gibberish. Today we’re going to take a look at modes and why they work in a rather easy to understand way. (more…)

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