April 2020 Archives

In this video, Bryan Davis shares a sequence of off-beat phrases to help you practice playing phrases that begin after a quaver/eighth note rest in time, without dragging the rest of the line. A useful ensemble skill to work on before we can get back to playing music together again!

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Join in our #practicechallenge on Instagram and Facebook – video yourself playing a line from this exercise, tag @airflowmusicnyc and use the hashtag #EOTW62. I’ll repost your renditions in my IG/FB story.

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In this video, Bryan Davis shares an interesting scale drill, combining the Mixolydian (Dominant 7th) scale with Chromatic and Diatonic Approach Notes. Whether that means anything to you or not, this is a challenging pattern to get under your fingers!

Join in our #practicechallenge on Instagram and Facebook – video yourself playing a line from this exercise, tag @airflowmusicnyc and use the hashtag #EOTW61. We’ll repost your renditions in our IG/FB story.