Open Mind Jazz

Great, Soulful, Improvisational Jazz!

Copyright © 2015 Bruce Gertz Music all rights reserved. Tracks are for practicing only. Unauthorized copying for any other use is strictly prohibited.

Tuning Notes
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Scale Approaches
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Chromatic Approaches
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From Walkin, Bruce Gertz Music

From Walkin, Bruce Gertz Music

Walikn, Bruce Gertz Music

Walikn, Bruce Gertz Music

Scale & Chromatic Combined
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For the 48 page full version of the bass lines and chord progressions, get the Walkin book. It's available on this site using paypal or you can get it from Berklee Books or Lemur Music or Jamey Aebersold Jazz

(1-6)... F Blues (18 Choruses)
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(7-11)... Bb Blues
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(12-13)... F Minor Blues
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(14)... Parker Blues (Slow)
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(14)... Parker Blues (Fast)
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(15-16)... Scrapple Changes (Slow)
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(15-16)... Scrapple Changes (Fast)
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(17)... No Greater Love
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(18)... Sweet Georgia (Slow)
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(18)... Sweet Georgia (Fast)
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(19)... Dixie, Honeysuckle
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(20)... Dixie, Struttin
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(21)... Come Rain
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(22)... Masquerade is Over
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(23)... Dream's On Me
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(24)... Confirmed
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(25-26)... Rythmn Changes (Slow)
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(25-26)... Rythmn Changes (Fast)
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Speaking Low Latin/Swing (27)
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Loved Once, Slow Samba (28)
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Yours Is My Heart, Swing/Latin (29)
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Weaving Dreams (30a)
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Like Someone (30b)
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Blue Heaven (31)
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Moments Notices, Slow (32)
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Moments Notices, Fast (32)
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Yesterdays, Slow (33)
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Yesterdays, Fast (33)
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Softly (34)
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It's You Or Nobody (35)
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Giant Walk, Slow (36)
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Cherokee Strut (37)
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Doxie Stroll (38)
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Wine And Roses (39)
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Knight In Tunisisa (40)
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A Loan Together (41)
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I Thought About You A Lot (42)
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Miss Jones, Waltz (43)
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Rhapsody (44)
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What Is This Thing? (45)
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Star Eye (46)
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Ring Me (47)
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All The Things (48)
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Blues, Fast (8)
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The Following are Various groove, feel changes and odd meter play along drum tracks.

10/4 swing med.
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Latin Variations (8 bar phrases with 2 bar drum interludes
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Tango med. up
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Soul, Funk, R&B med.
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The Other You, Med. up 3/4
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Ballad, Brushes Slow
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You Stepped, Latin 8, Swing 8, Latin 8, Swing 8, Med.up
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5/4 Funk Medium
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5/4 Funk with back beat Med.
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11/4 Jazz, Med. up(6/4+5/4)
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13/8 counted in 4/4 Medium stright eighth.
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9/4 medium
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6/4 All Blues or Footprints type feel
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10/4 Shuffle, Med.
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7/4 Hip Hop med.
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2020 Release from the Bruce Gertz Quintet