In this exercise, we'll ramp up the bebop scale practice routine by including 2-note enclosures with the 5-note sequences you learned in exercise #1. Be sure to get started on this one soon, because #3 (coming next week) is a real buggar!

Part 3 of the Bebop Exercise adds a third note, making this a killer exercise! In fact, this exercise uses all 12 notes in the chromatic scale, surrounding the roots, 3rds, and 5ths of the dominant chord. Hang tight- Part 4 will show you how to incorporate the enclosures in your improvisation pra...

In this lesson, you'll learn how to practice the enclosures from Parts 1&2 on tunes. We'll use the chord progression from the jazz tune, Minority, for this session. The method we go through can be used on most jazz standards.

Learn how to combine elements of your bebop vocabulary into the language of bop. In this lesson we'll combine licks and concepts from two of my Jazz Sax Quick Licks & Tips YouTube series into musical sentences on ii-V-I progressions.