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

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"Rhythm Boot Camp" & 8th Note Triplets 06.04.2021 12:56

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on October 5, 2018 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 #69 we look at a GREAT exercise to beef up your rhythmic sense. This is often given to jazz drummers, but we ALL need to know th...

"Voice Leading #2" & In Walked Bud 04.04.2021 13:17

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on September 28, 2018 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 #68, we take another look at Voice Leading (aka Guide Tones). This is a POWERFUL tool used by all great players and composers...

Minor Bebop Scales 02.04.2021 13:07

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on September 21, 2018 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 #67, we answer a bunch of requests and look at the Minor Bebop Scale. There are some different options and different colors p...

"A Lesson With Sonny Stitt!" 31.03.2021 11:38

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on September 14, 2018 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 #66, we look at one of our most requested topics, Melodic Improvisation. We've all been told "memorize the melody&q...

"Melodic Improv, The History of Jazz" & Blue Bossa 29.03.2021 13:43

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on June 29, 2018 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 #65, we look at a very cool exercise on developing our sense of Melodic Improvisation. Along the way, we also cover the History Of...

"Melodic Improvisation" & When The Saints Go Marching In 27.03.2021 15:32

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on August 31, 2018 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 $64, we look at one of our most requested topics, Melodic Improvisation. We've all been told "memorize the melody&quot...

"Motivic Improv" & Yesterdays 25.03.2021 15:54

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on August 24, 2018 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 #63, we look at motivic improvising - how to pick a great idea, and how to develop it in our solos. It's something pretty m...

Jazz Momentum & 8th Note Feel 23.03.2021 15:00

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on August 17, 2018 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 #62, we talk about the HARDEST thing to talk about in jazz - our "feel and momentum." Not our rhythm, our feel. And no...

Jazz Comping (for ALL instruments) Part 1 21.03.2021 12:19

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on August 10, 2018 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 #61, we talk about comping, and specifically an approach to the rhythmic side of things. We get into syncopation, articulation,...

"Jazz Composition" (part 1) & The Blues 19.03.2021 12:14

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on August 3, 2018 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 ##60, you are going to write a jazz tune. By the time you go to sleep tonight, you’ll be a composer, guaranteed! We take the plun...

"Slash Chords (sus4)" & Maiden Voyage 17.03.2021 15:50

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on July 27, 2018 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 #59, we demystify Slash Chords (Gm7/C), give you some analysis, strategies, and play some examples of what to do when the video en...

"Voice Leading" (part 1) & Tenor Madness 15.03.2021 17:59

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on July 20, 2018 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 #58, we talk about Voice Leading. . . what it is, why it matters, and most importantly, HOW TO USE IT! We also check in with Sonny...

"Your Biggest Practice Problem," The Asterisk Exercise & The Blues 13.03.2021 17:42

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on July 13th, 2018 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 #57, we talk about an issue Jeff talked to Michael Brecker about - how to get what we are currently working on to come out in ou...

"How To Learn Tunes" & Autumn Leaves 11.03.2021 13:32

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on July 6th, 2018 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 #56, we talk about how to learn songs, about how to get ready to improvise on a tune. And no, this isn't some dumbed down ap...

"Articulation - How To Swing" & Anthropology 09.03.2021 20:12

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on June 29, 2018 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 #55 we address HOW TO SWING. If you think this isn't teachable, you've been listening to the wrong people! Articulation...

Rhythmic Groupings (part 2) & How High The Moon 05.03.2021 11:21

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on June 22, 2018 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 #54, we continue our talk about "rhythmic groupings of threes" in our soloing. Not triplets, but groupings of 8th notes....

"Horizontal vs. Vertical" and Softly As In A Morning Sunrise 03.03.2021 11:33

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on June 15, 2018 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 #53, we demystify the terms "Horizontal Playing" and "Vertical Playing." Are they good or bad? Easy or hard? D...

Rhythmic Groupings (part 1) 01.03.2021 14:43

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on May 11, 2018 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 #52, we get into a very hip RHYTHMIC concept that is the basis of almost everything cool we can do rhythmically coming up. Dig into...

"Modes Suck" & So What 27.02.2021 16:53

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on May 25, 2018 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 #51, we take a swing at one of the most confusing, most asked about topics in jazz and theory . . . . modes. We demystify them, exp...

"Get Your Tone In Time" & My Little Suede Shoes 25.02.2021 14:40

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on May 25, 2018 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 #50, we jump into a cool exercise for ALL instruments (and voice) that will improve many aspects of your playing/singing (but centr...

ii-V-I in Major Keys 23.02.2021 15:38

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on May 11, 2018 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 #48, we tear apart the "Major ii-V-I" progress, see why it works, where it comes from, and most importantly, HOW to be EF...

"Minor ii - V - i's" & Autumn Leaves 21.02.2021 19:06

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on May 18, 2018 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 #49, we look at the very illusive "Minor ii-V-i progression," and show you a way to easily understand it, but most import...

"Bebop Scale Magic" & Night and Day (Cole Porter) 19.02.2021 12:42

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on May 4, 2018 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 #47, we talk about the COOLEST thing about Bebop Scales (that's the Magic part). We use the Cole Porter tune "Night and Da...

"Scale Practice - How vs. What" 17.02.2021 15:15

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on April 27, 2018 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 #46, we talk about scale practice. We all do it . . . . but how, and why? Why practice a scale you've known for years? And h...

"Practice Better!" & Stella By Starlight 15.02.2021 15:39

Welcome to the Digging Deeper Jazz Podcast. This podcast was originally released on April 20, 2018 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 #45, we talk about how to organize the millions of things competing for our attention, into a coherent practice plan. We offer TH...