The title sounds more serious than it really is… I recently posted a video in a Facebook group about what we get out of learning other players’ solos. A few people commented who are quite against this approach. One of them, who is actually a really great player, said he’s completely against learning jazz this way. His view is that it goes against the very essence of jazz, which he feels should be about freedom of expression. I can see where he’s coming from, but I don’t totally agree. I responded politely in the thread, of course, but it made me think it might be an interesting discussion to bring over here into SKOOL. I did briefly consider inviting him in to join the conversation, but I’m not sure he’d be that into it. Asking someone who already disagrees with you to come and join your own SKOOL group might come across a bit combative. So instead I thought I’d start a new thread here. Does his opinion resonate with anyone in the group? I’d genuinely be interested to hear people’s thoughts and would welcome the discussion.

Can you go over when best to use diminished scales and whole tone scales

Hi all, Thinking of trying to add an extra time for people to attend my weekly practise club. Will be a re-run of the same material in the Monday class but for people who can make 6pm on Monday. If you are interested, please tell me in the comments what time pile be best for you and I will try and find the best time and day for us all. Just tell me in your own time zone and il work the rest out.

Hi Matt.are you still posting live class recordings?

Was thinking about this today and wanted to know your thoughts? Is it just someone who can improvise over chords? Is it someone who knows some section of the “jazz canon” (tunes from a certain era of jazz) Is it someone who plays “the language” in their solo? Is it someone who can swing? Some might say it’s all of these out together however sometimes one or two of these are missing or one of these points seems to be a min focus over all of the others? I don’t think you have to have ALL of the above but I reckon most of these need to be in there somewhere. What am I missing?