Jazz Education
Quick and easy mastery of jazz?
I woke up this morning to an email from an online jazz instructor claiming, in essence, that 1. large amounts of practice
Announcing my new Musicsavvy.com site
I’m happy to announce that this week I launched the brand new version of my website musicsavvy.com. I hunkered down for two weeks,
The digital possibilities for learning jazz
I uploaded my 45th TikTok lesson on jazz this past weekend and starting to see some momentum in engagement. Young and old alike seem to be viewing, ‘liking’, and commenting on these 3-minute lessons – some collecting over 10,000 views within a few days.
My TikTok experiment in jazz
About a month ago, I started experimenting with the social media platform TikTok. After all, it has over 1 billion users with 200 million downloads in the US alone. And by social media standards, it’s still within its infancy.
About the movie Whiplash and jazz education
A couple weeks ago I sent Richie Beirach a YouTube clip from the movie Whiplash as a bit of levity. It was the scene where the teacher in the film Fletcher berates that poor trombone player for being out of tune. Spoiler alert:
Demonstrating the tangible elements of good jazz time
On Monday’s post I asked readers the question, what is your feel for time? I wanted to raise the idea of being aware of one’s personal feel for time and of the importance of good time in jazz improvisation.
About a metronome
I originally meant to write this as a reply to a comment Richie Beirach wrote on my blog. But as I started writing, I realized that this could be the springboard for something much more important.
Michael Lake
Jazz/latin trombone, author, multimedia artist, marketer
The skill of simplicity
I’ve received a couple of emails this past week making basically the same point about Pocket Jazz that I thought was worth sharing and exploring.
Does popularity define an artist?
A comment was recently written in one of the Pocket Jazz lessons. It was a lengthy comment but it ended with these questions: When is
It’s all about your time
A LOT of you have taken advantage of my offer to sign up for Pocket Jazz for free. Some have come back asking when they
