Learn how to begin analyzing chord progressions by locating common chords found in most tunes.

This one was influenced by a Cannonball Adderley lick, but also has a Stanley Turrentine feel.

This is a great follow-up to The Modern Minor Pentatonic Essentials lesson-more 4th/whole-steps!

Learn the Altered Dominant Scale, classic altered sounds, and its relative melodic minor scale.

This one has a cool "Hee-Haw" effect between the -7 and b5 with an up and over style bend.

Learn 3 killer neighbor tone patterns - great for expanding your jazz improv vocabulary!

Learn about the symbols used to notate chords and the scales used in their construction.

Learn the Melodic Minor Pentatonic Scale and a pattern based on the theme to Recorda-me.

This exercise will help you develop that soft subtone in the low register.

This one, based on the C Blues Scale, uses an inversion to get a simple variation.

Learn about tonal center playing, contrafacts, transcriptions, and developing Rhythm Changes motifs.

This one is based on a lick by jazz trumpeter, Lee Morgan.