Jeff Antoniuk

Digging Deeper Jazz

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Jeff Antoniuk is your personal guide through the confusing and sometimes contradictory landscape of learning the art of Jazz Improvisation. His approach to teaching jazz has been developed over the past 25+ years by helping thousands of aspiring adult students pursue their passion and gain confidence in the process. He has one goal in mind - to help you become a better jazz improviser. Learn more at www. JazzWire.net

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Jeff Antoniuk

Episodes

"Rhythmic Licks" & Sweets Edison/Thad Jones 13.09.2021 12:51

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on March 13, 2020 on the Jeff Antoniuk - Educator YouTube channel. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel and feel free to enjoy the video version as well. FOR ALL INSTRUMENTS ! In episode #144, Jeff talks about the idea that some of our licks should be based on RHYTHM first, not always on notes and scales and harmo...

"Get Hip With The Tonic" & ii-V-I 11.09.2021 13:51

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on March 6, 2020 on the Jeff Antoniuk - Educator YouTube channel. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel and feel free to enjoy the video version as well. FOR ALL INSTRUMENTS ! In episode #143, Jeff shows us how to not be BORING on the "I chord," the tonic. Every lick out there puts all it's energy in...

"Major IS Minor" & Green Dolphin Street 09.09.2021 12:21

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on February 28, 2020 on the Jeff Antoniuk - Educator YouTube channel. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel and feel free to enjoy the video version as well. FOR ALL INSTRUMENTS ! In episode #142 Jeff shows us how melodies and licks in a major key can be used in minor situations and vice versa. And ALL without alte...

"Working With 1 - 5 - 10" & Stella By Starlight 07.09.2021 10:50

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on February 21, 2020 on the Jeff Antoniuk - Educator YouTube channel. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel and feel free to enjoy the video version as well. FOR ALL INSTRUMENTS ! In episode #141, Jeff Antoniuk shows us a hip melodic cell (and harmonic voicing) that we can think of as "1 - 5 - 10." J.S. B...

"Accented Dissonances" & ii-V-I 05.09.2021 12:10

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on February 14, 2020 on the Jeff Antoniuk - Educator YouTube channel. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel and feel free to enjoy the video version as well. FOR ALL INSTRUMENTS ! In episode #140 Jeff shows us how to make a real artistic statement by consciously choosing tension some of the time. This video is a gr...

"World's Greatest Lick" & Cherokee/Bluesette 03.09.2021 12:59

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on February 7, 2020 on the Jeff Antoniuk - Educator YouTube channel. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel and feel free to enjoy the video version as well. FOR ALL INSTRUMENTS ! In episode #139 Jeff Antoniuk shows you what might just be the world's most perfect lick. Clifford Brown played it, so that's a...

"Practice Laboratories" & Minority 01.09.2021 10:11

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on January 31, 2020 on the Jeff Antoniuk - Educator YouTube channel. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel and feel free to enjoy the video version as well. FOR ALL INSTRUMENTS ! In episode #138, Jeff gives a a fantastic framework for how we should be practicing jazz improvisation, how to be learning licks, and how...

"Rhythm, Time and Groove" & Cissy Strut 31.08.2021 13:14

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on January 24, 2020 on the Jeff Antoniuk - Educator YouTube channel. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel and feel free to enjoy the video version as well. FOR ALL INSTRUMENTS ! In episode #137 Jeff digs in to the differences between Rhythm, Time and Groove. People often talk about these things as if they are the...

"Modal Jazz" & So What 29.08.2021 14:53

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on January 3, 2020 on the Jeff Antoniuk - Educator YouTube channel. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel and feel free to enjoy the video version as well. FOR ALL INSTRUMENTS ! In episode #136 Jeff takes us through Modal Jazz, what it is, and how not to sound like a total knucklehead when we are playing it. Modal...

"Two-ing The Five" & The Blues 27.08.2021 13:01

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on January 3, 2020 on the Jeff Antoniuk - Educator YouTube channel. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel and feel free to enjoy the video version as well. FOR ALL INSTRUMENTS ! In episode #135 we talk about expanding the harmony of a song, the way the great bebop and post bop players did . . . by adding a ii chord...

"Embellishing Melodies" & All The Things You Are 25.08.2021 14:14

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on January 3, 2020 on the Jeff Antoniuk - Educator YouTube channel. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel and feel free to enjoy the video version as well. FOR ALL INSTRUMENTS ! In episode #134, we look at what it means to successfully embellish a jazz melody. Why would we do it, what is the goal, and why does it s...

Common Tones Are Hip 23.08.2021 10:49

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on December 13, 2019 on the Jeff Antoniuk - Educator YouTube channel. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel and feel free to enjoy the video version as well. FOR ALL INSTRUMENTS ! In episode #133, Jeff talks about Common Tones, and how INSANELY useful they are. Soloing, comping, composing arranging, teaching, learn...

"Bounce Like Freddie" & Jazz Articulation 21.08.2021 14:12

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on December 20, 2019 on the Jeff Antoniuk - Educator YouTube channel. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel and feel free to enjoy the video version as well. FOR ALL INSTRUMENTS ! In episode #132 we talk about Freddie Hubbard, Cannonball Adderley, Ella Fitzgerald, and all the great players and singers who had that...

"3 Steps to Great Improv!" & Billies Bounce 19.08.2021 14:25

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on December 13, 2019 on the Jeff Antoniuk - Educator YouTube channel. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel and feel free to enjoy the video version as well. FOR ALL INSTRUMENTS ! In episode #131, we look at an amazingly simple yet powerful framework for learning jazz improvisation. Do these THREE things regularly,...

"Chromatic ii-V's" & Ask Me Now 17.08.2021 13:42

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on December 6, 2019 on the Jeff Antoniuk - Educator YouTube channel. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel and feel free to enjoy the video version as well. FOR ALL INSTRUMENTS ! In episode#130, Jeff walks us through THREE different approaches to playing over Chromatic ii-V's. Bebop and post bop jazz is filled...

Fear of 13th Chords! 15.08.2021 12:12

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on November 29, 2019 on the Jeff Antoniuk - Educator YouTube channel. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel and feel free to enjoy the video version as well. FOR ALL INSTRUMENTS ! In episode # 129, Jeff sets our minds at ease about 13th chords. All those extensions can really freak us out, but there are TWO big con...

"Sound Like Monk!" & Tritones 13.08.2021 12:48

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on November 22, 2019 on the Jeff Antoniuk - Educator YouTube channel. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel and feel free to enjoy the video version as well. FOR ALL INSTRUMENTS ! In episode #128, we ask questions about what made Thelonious Monk sound like Monk, what made Charlie Rouse sound like Rouse, and a SIMPL...

"Sight Reading Melodies" & Springfield 07.08.2021 14:51

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on November 15, 2019 on the Jeff Antoniuk - Educator YouTube channel. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel and feel free to enjoy the video version as well. FOR ALL INSTRUMENTS ! In episode #127 , we look at sight reading MELODIES. There are tricks and tips to sight reading that are quite easy and intuitive, and w...

"A Lesson With James P. Johnson" & the blues 03.08.2021 12:41

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on July 26, 2019 on the Jeff Antoniuk - Educator YouTube channel. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel and feel free to enjoy the video version as well. FOR ALL INSTRUMENTS ! In episode #126, we take a lead from legendary composer and pianist James P. Johnson, and work on our RHYTHM. Jeff routinely get's stude...

Stop Practicing Scales! 01.08.2021 11:08

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on November 1, 2019 on the Jeff Antoniuk - Educator YouTube channel. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel and feel free to enjoy the video version as well. FOR ALL INSTRUMENTS ! In episode #125 Jeff makes the heretical point that scales (drum rudiments, etc) are NOT what we should be practicing. With a couple littl...

Sight Reading Rhythms 30.07.2021 19:21

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on October 25, 2019 on the Jeff Antoniuk - Educator YouTube channel. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel and feel free to enjoy the video version as well. FOR ALL INSTRUMENTS ! In episode #124, we look at sight reading music. For some of us this seems totally impossible, but EVERYONE of us learn this skill. There...

"Stop Pushing Buttons" & Blue Bossa 28.07.2021 16:41

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on October 18, 2019 on the Jeff Antoniuk - Educator YouTube channel. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel and feel free to enjoy the video version as well. FOR ALL INSTRUMENTS ! In episode #123, we look at a strategy to help you stop "pushing buttons" (pulling stings, whacking drums, pressing keys) . . ....

"Jazz Is Investing" & Giant Steps. 26.07.2021 20:25

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on October 11, 2019 on the Jeff Antoniuk - Educator YouTube channel. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel and feel free to enjoy the video version as well. FOR ALL INSTRUMENTS ! In episode #122 we discover that learning, playing, and practicing jazz is truly all about Saving and Investing. What you do today is what...

"Lost In A Ballad" & Body and Soul 24.07.2021 15:53

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on October 4, 2019 on the Jeff Antoniuk - Educator YouTube channel. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel and feel free to enjoy the video version as well. FOR ALL INSTRUMENTS ! In episode #121, we talk about how EASY it is to get lost in a ballad. And yes, we also talk about how to solve the problem forever in abou...

Double Time Playing & Charlie Parker 22.07.2021 19:08

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on September 27, 2019 on the Jeff Antoniuk - Educator YouTube channel. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel and feel free to enjoy the video version as well. FOR ALL INSTRUMENTS ! In episode #120 is a "by request" video, after a bunch of you wanted to know more about how to play Double Time. I added it up...