A channel, about jazz education, for teachers & students. Practical advice, teaching techniques, lessons, research, reviews, and more.
I'm Saul Richardson PhD, principal & co-founder at Jazz Workshop Australia. Here, I share knowledge and advice from my 30+ years' experience as a jazz educator, including classroom teaching, and as a professional guitarist/bassist. My teaching tips are based on insights from my successes, wisdom from my failures, as well as research.
There are plenty of channels about how to play jazz, but it is harder to find useful information about how to teach it. This channel helps to meet several needs: Jazz pedagogy mentoring for newer teachers, professional development for seasoned jazz educators, and practical information about jazz pedagogy for performers who are also teaching.
This channel is founded on the understanding that learning to play jazz is based upon knowledge, skills, and techniques that can be taught and learnt.
TeachingJazz
Back from a break - lots of work at Jazz Workshop Australia plus a holiday! New videos coming soon including jazz guitar lessons & jazz teaching tips.
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It's time for another jazz guitar lesson. Recently, we've looked at ways of comping and interacting with minor, dominant, and major chord families. Next, we'll start bringing these things together, with soloing too, into some well-known tunes. Coming soon.
1 year ago | [YT] | 2
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It's been a couple of weeks - I was away teaching at a music camp and then got quite sick (thanks kids). Next video is on the way. Lesson & interactive play-along, the next part of my comping series for beginner to intermediate players.
1 year ago | [YT] | 7
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TeachingJazz
Busy weekend with some wonderful young musicians at the Merimbula Jazz Festival. Meanwhile, I'm editing the next video. Coming soon.
1 year ago | [YT] | 6
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How did you go with last week's 'guide tone' madness exercise? Following on from that, Next we need to focus a bit closer on the II-V.
1 year ago | [YT] | 8
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Want to know more about comping? What is it? How do you do it? Who does it, and why? What's a game-changing way of practicing it on guitar OR piano? Well, stand by.
1 year ago | [YT] | 6
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TeachingJazz
It's been a while since I posted a video, but one's coming soon. Maybe something simple, like what is jazz anyway?
2 years ago | [YT] | 3
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Fletcher was a monster, but will he make another cameo appearance in the next video? Can he help us become better teachers?
2 years ago | [YT] | 1
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TeachingJazz
New video coming today, - digging deeper into the minor bebop scale for beginner and intermediate improvisers.
2 years ago | [YT] | 3
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