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Work, with Miles Okazaki

This is a podcast version of Miles Okazaki"s patreon channel. Okazaki is a guitarist and composer based in Brooklyn, NY.Season 1 (Monk, 65 episodes): How this podcast began: individual guitar studies of every composition by Thelonious Monk. These begin as practice videos without much talking and evolve into episodes on specific topics.Season 2 (Fall 2024, 48 episodes): A 12-part series on the subject of Symmetry, an 8-part series on Drum rudiments with the pick, and a 5-part series on the "Allegro

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12:28

Pick Control 06: Triple Strokes

Work, with Miles Okazaki ·

2025/05/08

Here we extend the exercises of symmetrical picking into triples, and all of the cool stuff you can do by combining twos and threes (all other numbers can be made from these). A worksheet with some additional ideas is attached.

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23:38

Pick Control 04-05: Paradiddles + Paradiddle Workout

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2025/05/08

Singles and Doubles together allow us to make paradiddles, one of the most common and fundamental drum patterns. I think this one is really fun to practice and very useful for buildng technique. I go through the exercise that's on the attached sheet.Here we get into double and triple paradiddles, and I demonstrate one of my favorite exercises, which is in Fundamentals of Guitar. The written exercise are attached on the patreon page.

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11:40

Pick Control 03: Double Strokes

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2025/05/08

Following up on the last video, here's a thing on double strokes. Also an interesting observation on "Boogie Stop Shuffle" and "Mr. P.C.," two minor blues tunes with a bunch of doubled notes in the melodies, almost the exact same tempo, recorded a week apart in May of 1959. PDF attached for the exercise.

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16:56

Pick Control 02: Single Strokes

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2025/05/08

Here I give an introduction to Symmetrical Picking, something that I developed while writing "Fundamentals of Guitar" about ten years ago. I outline how the strings could be thought of as left and right hand drum stickings, and show an exercise for string skipping. See attachment for a written version.

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19:00

Pick Control 01: Holding the pick, upstrokes and...

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2025/05/08

This is the beginning of a new series on articulation with the pick. It's one of my favorite subjects, and I've put a lot of thought into developing exercises that get results, regardless of the style of music you play. This is an introductory video, where I talk about various ways of holding the pick and then give a couple of basic accenting exercises.

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34:28

Donna Lee

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2025/05/08

Here's a fairly long video showing my approach to the melody of a classic, "Donna Lee." This video is open to free members. Please share and tell friends about the site if you dig it.

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18:14

Member question: Augmented triad and Grant Green

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2025/05/08

Here I take a look at a passage from a Grant Green solo brought up by a member. This leads to some discussion about the Melodic Minor scale, and how it's often used in a jazz context.

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23:34

Symmetry 12: Polarity in real life applications (tunes)

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2025/05/03

This videos jumps off of the questions from the last episode. I talk about "Stardust," "Embraceable You," "Night and Day," phrases by Charlie Parker, and then demonstrate some exercises and ideas.

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22:48

Symmetry 09: To plan or not to plan

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2025/05/03

This is a response video to a couple of questions from the last post, which was pretty complicated. The main thing is looking at options of how to think about pathways, which can boggle the mind pretty quickly. I give some of my shortcuts and tricks.

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17:08

Symmetry 11: The 8-way traffic circle

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2025/05/03

By introducing mi6 chords, we've now doubled the number of dominants available at any given time. I get into this idea here, with a very short explanation that ties into the diminished thing we started this series with.

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19:00

Symmetry 10: The mystery of minor

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2025/05/03

Turning from major to minor, I do a very brief history and explanation of the major/minor duality, and then get into the cadence Fmi6 --> C. Feel free to ask quesitons, as this one goes a bit into the weeds.

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15:17

Symmetry 07: Secondary Dominants

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2025/05/03

This is a continuation of the traffic circle idea, and the beginning of a pathways concept. We are now getting to the juicy part where we connect one traffic circle to another. I demonstrate and talk about why this approach can lead to a more functionalresult than a bunch of scales and altered dominants. I will refer to the attached page for this and subsequent videos.

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15:20

Symmetry 08: Dominant Chains

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2025/05/03

Here the traffic circle idea explodes into an infinite pathway concept. I reference a 1945 recording by Don Byas and Slam Stewart that can be found here. Go to 1:48 to hear the thing I'm talking about. Also, attached to this post is a page from my book that diagrams out the pathways. I've only talked so far about the top half of this diagram (not the minor stuff). This one thing could be practiced for many years without being mastered (trust me, I've tried!). So if you have questions, please ask and

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13:34

Symmetry 05 - Reverse Traffic Circle

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2025/04/30

In the last video we looked at four ways to get to a place. Now we look at, for any particular place, four ways to get out of it. For example, if you are in C (major or minor), you can make that into a C7 to then prepare to go somewhere. You have (in this traffic circle model) four directions: F, Ab, B, or D. These could be major or minor key centers. So in the exercise I just go to a key center, make it dominant, and go somewhere else. For example,C, C7, Fmi, F7, E, E7, F#, F#7, G#mi, G#7, Bb, Bb7,

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17:00

Symmetry 04: Alterations of the dominant and the...

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2025/04/30

Moving back to application, I explain here how the four dominants that we made from the diminished create four "altered dominant" sounds. Specifically:Bb7 -> C = G7b9#9 -> CDb7 -> C = G7b9#11 -> CE7 -> C = G13b9 -> Cand of courseG7 -> C = G7 -> CSo, instead of thinking of four varieties of altered "G7" chords, we are thinking of approaching the destination from four different angles. Could be North, South, East and West, or something like that. Could also think where the

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10:48

Symmetry 03: Diminished into Dominant 7th Morphing...

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2025/04/30

Back to warmup exercises, here's one looking at the diminished 7th morphing into the four dominant 7th chords that are related to it.

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11:08

Symmetry 02: Diminished Resolutions in Context

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2025/04/30

Here's a video to address a member question of application of the stuff from the previous post, using examples on a minor blues and "All the Things You Are."

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22:18

Symmetry 01: Diminished / Leading Tone Resolutions

Work, with Miles Okazaki ·

2025/04/30

This will be a series of videos on a single topic that I find extremely useful, which is the use of diminished structures. We start out with thinking about the places where one diminished 7th structure could go, and then turning that into an exercise.

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12:40

Chromatic Scale (pt. 3, Levels of Dynamics with the...

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2025/04/30

Still using the Chromatic Scale, and then demonstrating with improvising on a blues. Seeing how many levels of dynamics we can get with the pick, playing with the amp turned up to 10.

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13:38

Chromatic Scale (pt. 2, practice ideas)

Work, with Miles Okazaki ·

2025/04/30

A couple more quick practice ideas for the chromatic scale, a great way to get your fingers and picking hand going.

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