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Jamey Aebersold Vol 1 advice.

Author: mnhnhyouh
Date: 2014-07-19 07:25

Have been playing for about 8 months, working hard on scales and progressing through the Jamey Aebersold book Volume 1, How to Play Jazz and Improvise.

I am up to Exercise 12 and 13. This has me playing minor scales up to the 9th, up, down and back up again. I know these scales very well, but the backing track is at 130 bpm, and the scales are played in 1/8 notes.

I just cant keep up!

I have been concentrating on keeping my fingers close to the keys.

I have practiced very slowly, 80bpm playing on the 1/4 notes, and going faster and faster, but when I get to about 100 bmp on the 1/8 notes it starts to get ragged, and at 130 is sloppy with missed notes, bad fingering, and when the notes do sound the timing is uneven.

For the last 2 months I have been stuck here. I leave it alone for a week and work on other things, but keep coming back. I have done it in the lower register in an ok fashion, but the upper register crosses the break, and that is part of the problem.

The three scales (in Bb) are G-7, F-7 and E-7.

First, can someone who knows this book tell me if I am reading it correctly? Is this the speed it should be played at?

Second, if this is the right speed, what can I do?

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