You'll Hear It | A Jazz Blog from Open Studio

2-Handed Rhythmic Comping – Peter Martin

Peter Martin provides some examples of taking inspiration from hand drums for your comping.

Peter Martin April 15, 2019

Bebop Passing Tones – Peter Martin

Peter Martin shows you how to spice up a tune by paying attention to phrases within the composition.

Peter Martin March 28, 2019

Trading Fours With Yourself – Ulysses Owens, Jr.

Ulysses Owens, Jr. demonstrates the essentials of what it takes to play the drums with brushes.

Ulysses Owens, Jr. March 28, 2019

Live @ Open Studio: BRAZIL 🇧🇷

On March 16, Open Studio present a live concert featuring the Helio Alves Quartet. We packed as many chairs as the fire marshal would allow and live streamed the concert around the world. What an amazing night of music.

Open Studio March 23, 2019

Autumn Leaves

“Autumn Leaves” (Kosma/Mercer) is one of the most popular jazz standards of all time. This chord arrangement is aimed at demonstrating practical jazz chord voicings under melodies as well as inner voice movement and harmonic substitutions. DONWLOAD PDF Provide us your email to get instant access to the PDF chart. We only send you great

Adam Maness March 7, 2019

5 Easy Jazz Piano Chords That Sound Great

Want to play great sounding jazz piano chords? Great news! You DON’T have to first learn jazz theory to play fantastic sounding jazz chords. In fact, it can confuse and frustrate you if you dive first into the treacherous world of jazz theory. There’s lots of videos, blog posts, and teaching online that will show you

Peter Martin March 6, 2019

Freddie Freeloader – Wynton Kelly solo transcription

Wynton Kelly’s iconic solo on the Bb blues “Freddie Freeloader” is a clinic in eloquent, swinging, and masterful jazz piano playing. We can glean so much about how to phrase, swing and play the blues from these perfectly crafted four choruses. Download the transcribed chart PDF of Wynton Kelly’s iconic solo on the Bb blues “Freddie Freeloader”

Peter Martin February 12, 2019