Music Savvy

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Music Savvy is about learning to improvise by ear—not by memorizing scales or overthinking every chord. If you've been told you need to calculate every chord...

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Richie Beirach on masters thinking about the changes

Richie on emotion and vulnerability in playing jazz

Richie Beirach on exercising your musical imagination

Below 10th Street

Raw, Honest, Essential Jazz Wisdom from Jazz Masters

Theory & Scales in Performance Vs. Practice

Introducing MusicSavvy.com

Introduction to playing in Biosphere 2

Richie Beirach on trio interplay while recording Nardis

The #1 Reason Your Jazz Solos Don't Sound Musical

How to play alto trombone with chops and musicality

Jazz mastery is NOT Quick and Easy

Improvise more melodically by doing THIS

A Fix for Instrument Frustration

Trombone Players This Book Just Got Better

Why So Many Jazz Lessons Focus on the Wrong Thing

How to Record Your Instrument for Clarity and Warmth

Jazz Improvisation Made Simpler

How to Improve Your Jazz Trombone Improvisation – Stop Playing Scales!

Hidden Depths

Stardust

Richie Beirach on the balance of ear and mind in playing jazz

Changing Seasons

McChesney on how articulation trumps intonation

Sheila Jordon on not stealing a life

Andromeda Lullaby

Tin Man

The improvisor's battle between left and right brain

How to practice more effectively

My House (Sunday Song)