Want your piano playing to sing like James Taylor’s guitar? In this tutorial, I break down how to adapt the iconic fingerstyle feel of "Carolina In My Mind" into a smooth, expressive piano ...

Key techniques that define jazz guitar include chord comping, which provides harmonic ... and rapid passing tones for smooth, harmonically rich solos. Ievgen emphasizes that mastering jazz ...

The Montgomery Smooth Jazz Festival will take place on March 14-15 at Riverwalk Amphitheater. The festival will feature national jazz and R&B artists, including Boney James, Leela James ...

They all have DYNAMITE chord progressions. Jimmy Webb, Billy Joel and the Beatles are right up there with Gershwin and Rogers and Hammerstein, in my book. How can you write like them? Watch and see.

The instrument hasn’t always been a central player in jazz ... on this recording. His guitar solos always blow me away, but don’t sleep on his chime-like cluster chord voicings, which reveal ...

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A jazz concert that was going to kick off the fall season in Montgomery won't bloom until next spring. Organizers for the Montgomery Smooth Jazz Festival announced on their website that their ...

It’s chromatically lush, a feast of augmented chords ... smooth-jazz conclusion. “Corsair” picks up both the maritime metaphor and the retro sensibility: Everything, from the flanged guitar ...

It's also good news for horn players, jazz or no, who've taken a back seat for years in guitar- and drum machine-saturated pop music. "Again, it's a cyclical thing," Johnson says. "Swing music is ...

The latest update will migrate units to a new server which Chord say will ensure smooth operation for your device in the future. If you're in doubt about how to do that Chord's already shared a useful ...