New Lessons!
You'll find my newest lessons in this collection. As other new releases are published, I'll migrate these into their respective categories. Look for the EXTRAS and PDF files for each lesson at the end of this category.
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Major Chord Essentials-Patterns to Solos
Learn to incorporate the 3 Must-Know Patterns in your solos. Remember to download the EXTRAS!
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Enclosures, Enclosures, Enclosures! #4 The Wrap-Around Enclosure
This one was inspired by a Dexter Gordon lick and features a wrap-around enclosure (my term)
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Transcribe This Lick Round 2! - Lick #3
This one features a minor lick courtesy Dexter Gordon from his solo on Cheesecake.
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Major Chord Essentials; 3 Must-Know Patterns
These 3 patterns combine major scale & arpeggios to create beautiful lines with lots of applications
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Easy Blues Lick #8
This one incorporates the flat 5 pulling both toward the 5th and the 4th in a fun turn.
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Vocabulary, Licks, & Language, Set 2, Lick #10
This one features a tritone substitution and a progressive enclosure.
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Transcribe This Lick Round 2! - Lick #2
This lick is an excellent addition to your motif vocabulary. A Bebop variation is included.
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Quick Tunes #24 - Just Friends - Phrasing Demo
The phrasing demo uses the fast I Play-You Play track. Fast & slow tracks are included in the EXTRAS
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Quick Tunes #24 - Just Friends - Lesson
Jazz improvisation lesson on the standard, Just Friends, Be sure to download the EXTRAS folder. Phrasing demonstration and I Play-You Play videos are also included with the lesson
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Quick Tunes #24 - Just Friends - I Play-You Play
The I Play-You Play video uses the slow playalong track. Slow & Fast tracks included in the EXTRAS
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Enclosures, Enclosures, Enclosures! #3
This one introduces The Progressive Enclosure on minor 7 chords.
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Transcribe This Lick Round 2! - Introduction
Transcribing is a great ear training exercise - and it helps build vocabulary too!
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Transcribe This Lick Round 2! - Lick #1
This transcribe video features a passage played by Sonny Rollins in The Way You Look Tonight
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Easy Blues Lick #7
This one is a D minor blues lick based on a lick from Wayne Shorter's solo on Footprints.
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Enclosures, Enclosures, Enclosures! #2 The Drop-Down Enclosure
This one introduces The Drop-Down and One-Down Two-Up Enclosures with a tricky pattern!
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Vocabulary, Licks, & Language Set 2, #9
This one includes Enclosure #1 from my new series, Enclosures, Enclosures, Enclosures!
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Enclosures, Enclosures, Enclosures! (Introduction)
Learn about this new series featuring a variety of enclosure exercises- not just for bebop playing!
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Enclosures, Enclosures, Enclosures! #1
This exercise uses the flat 9 and a 1-up, 2-down enclosure of the 3rd of an approaching chord.
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What a Wonderful World-Phrasing Demo Quick Tunes #23
This is the phrasing demo for Quick Tunes #23, What a Wonderful World.
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What a Wonderful World-Lesson Quick Tunes #23
Learn to improvise of the classic tune made famous by Louis Armstrong, What a Wonderful World.
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What a Wonderful World-I Play-You Play Quick Tunes #23
This is the I Play-You Play video for Quick Tunes #23- What a Wonderful World
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The Soulful Upbend
Learn how to do a soulful upbend on any note that will enhance your style.
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Tritone Subs, Part 5-Video 3-Tritone Subs & Soloing (Lesson)
Learn to include tritone subs on your solos on the changes to Out of Nowhere. This is Video 3 of Part 5 in the series; The What's, When's & Whys's of Tritone Subs.
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Tritone Subs, Part 5-Video 3-Phrasing Demo
This video demonstrates many tritone subs in solo practice over the chords to Out of Nowhere. These are the chord changes used in Part 5-Video 3 of the The What's, When's & Why's of Tritone Subs.