Now, there are lots of others he used but if you start adding those in your phrases it will help you sound a lot more conversational too. (By the way, Miles Davis used this one too).Īnother one he used all the time was ending his phrase on the “& of 3”.Īgain, hundreds of licks I learned from him featured this rhythmic ending. No matter what song he was jamming on I heard him use this rhythmic ending constantly! For example, in the last bar of a 4 bar phrase he’d end tons of his lines with 2 eighth notes on beat 1 and then the & of 1.The more I dug into Oscar’s playing the more I realized he actually had worked out specific rhythmic endings to resolve his phrases with. One of the big reasons he sounded so “conversational” when he played was that he always resolved his lines with rhythmic clarity. When he played it always sounded like he was speaking through his fingers. Oscar was a master at mixing short “riffy” type ideas with long virtuosic flowing bebop type lines and piano runs. #1 How To Correctly End Your Rhythmic Phrases Way too many to list in 1 email but I wanted to share 2 nuggets today that I learned from.
I learned a TON about jazz improvisation from Oscar. He’s my go to source for blues and bebop mixed together. This guy was Oscar Peterson. I’ve probably transcribed about 35 Oscar solos over the years. When I sat down there was 1 guy that I studied that really made a drastic improvement of my playing. Well, I’m reaching out to you today to set the record straight. We’re all constantly looking for ways to maximize our return on investment with our jazz piano practice time right? I’ve had a lot of students ask me who I studied when I was an up and coming jazz pianist. Do you want to learn 2 unusual Oscar Peterson jazz exercises?
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