The Bebop Series
The Bebop Series features a progressive exercise beginning with the dominant bebop scale that works through a series of 2-note and 3-note enclosures. The fourth part of the exercise shows you how to incorporate the enclosures into your solo practice on tunes.
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Bebop Exercise #1 - The Bebop Scale
In this first bebop lesson, you'll learn some basics of the dominant bebop scale. We'll also set up some practice parameters regarding range and tone sequencing. I'll follow this exercise with a series of exercises on building chromatic enclosures. Watch for this series of short bebop lessons to ...
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Bebop Exercise #2 - Enclosing the Bebop Scale (2-Note Enclosures)
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!
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Bebop Exercise #3 - Enclosing the Bebop Scale (3-Note Enclosures)
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...
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Bebop Exercise #4 - Practicing Enclosures on Tunes
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.
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Working Enclosures & Flat 9's Together on ii-V-I's
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.
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The Inverted Double Enclosure Pattern
This addition to the Bebop Series is a real finger and mind busting Bebop pattern that double-encloses the 1-3-5-7 chord tones. If you're up for a major technique challenge, this is it!
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Bebop Exercise #1- The Bebop Scale.pdf
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Bebop Exercise 2- Enclosing the Bebop Scale.pdf
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Bebop Exercise #3- Enclosing the Bebop Scale- 3-Note Enclosures.pdf
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Bebop Exercise #4-Practicing Enclosures on Tunes EXTRAS.zip
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Working Enclosures and Flat 9's Together on ii-V-I's.pdf
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The-Inverted-Double-Enclosure-Pattern.pdf
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