Build your improvisation language by learning and conceptualizing a variety of licks. Be sure to download the EXTRAS folder or PDF for each lick.

This minor pentatonic pattern is a great staple for your improvisation vocabulary.

We'll begin this series with a Dorian based minor 7 lick that has multiple applications.

This minor 7 arpeggio based lick is common vocabulary among great jazz musicians. I've included examples from Sonny Stitt and Dexter Gordon solos.

This is a funk lick based on the minor pentatonic scale. Flexible vocabulary for many situations! Be sure to download the PDF.

Lick #4 is based on a major pentatonic scale. An excerpt from a Scott Hamilton solo provides context.

Lick #5 is based on a major blues scale. An excerpt from a Gene Ammons solo provides context.

This lick uses a dominant 7 arpeggio with blues neighbor tones. Multiple applications.

This triplet based arpeggio lick can be used ascending and descending on major 7 & minor 7 chords.

Learn this Major/Dominant Chromatic Line used by most of the great jazz musicians.

Another essential chromatic line for dominant chords with a major option.

I show you a couple of ways to analyze and practice this major lick with a blues inflection.