Category Archives: Chords

5 Important 4-note Jazz Licks That Will Change Your Playing

4 note jazz licks are probably one of the most important tools for your jazz solos.
The 4-note jazz licks fit perfectly into the most common 4/4 bar.
In this video I explain 5 four note licks and make these usable in multiple situations.
Greats like John Coltrane made full concepts of playing shapes like this.

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10 LICKS USING 4 NOTE PATTERNS – IN THE 7 MOST COMMON KEYS
+ All Lesson Examples Transposed To The Alto Key

In this tutorial
00:00 The importance of 4 note jazz licks
00:55 Dm9 with a chromatic touch
02:12 G7 altered lick
02:47 Abm triad on G7
03:43 Use Bb7 as altered sound
05:00 Cmaj7 and Giant Steps
05:53 G7 = Db7???
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Triads – A Massive Boost To Your Solos
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COLTRANE PATTERNS – AMAZING, FLEXIBLE AND MELODIC FOUR NOTE SHAPES
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What Coltrane Can Teach You About The Blues

Coltrane and the blues is an amazing cocktail.
I analyze and explain how Coltrane plays such clear and beautiful lines when playing the blues.
We dig into different embellishments on Coltrane blues lines and in the lesson transcription I elaborate by adding 10 extra Coltrane inspired blues licks.

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10 Amazing Blues Chord Note Patterns on the last page of the lesson transcription on Patreon written out in the blues solo form

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In this tutorial
00:00 Coltrane is an Amazing teacher
00:52 Coltrane chord note blues pattern
02:05 Chromatic embellishments
03:05 Transposing blues patterns
04:06 Evolving blues patterns
05:54 Coltrane Blues pattern #2
06:53 Evolving Coltrane Blues Pattern #2
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3 Coltrane Bebop Licks Explained
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The Best Thing About The Blues Scale And How To Use It https://youtu.be/EwyfRuIWgAg
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Blues Backing track
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Learn And Play Giant Steps In 5 Easy Steps

Some say that Giant Steps is the most difficult tune in the world.
It is not – it is just unfamiliar!
Let’s get cracking at the Giant Steps changes and decipher them.
Play a solo on this amazing tune by following these easy steps.

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In this tutorial
00:00 Learn And Play Giant Steps In 5 Easy Steps
00:20 Giant Steps Truth
00:39 Step one – learn the solo
01:21 Get the chords right
03:03 The Best Start – how to practice Giant Steps
06:28 Giant Steps SCALES
07:48 Getting it together
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COLTRANE PATTERNS – AMAZING, FLEXIBLE AND MELODIC FOUR NOTE SHAPES
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Coltrane Changes – The most important Coltrane Structures https://youtu.be/MAb6hiWQ2qo
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Soprano – Yanagisawa Elimona

Play Outside Using This simple Minor Chord Method

Why playing outside is not complicated.
Boiling the idea of playing outside down to adding one minor chord.
And why Coltrane, Brecker and Potter sound amazing when they play outside.
They do it the simple way.

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00:00 COLTRANE, BRECKER AND POTTER ALL DO IT
01:09 The simple minor chord
01:51 First alteration – backdoor dominant
03:42 Second alteration – tritone substituted dominant
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Eternal Inspiration – Never Run Out Of Solo Ideas

In a solo or when practicing you do not want to run out of ideas.
There are a few simple tricks on how to be always inspired.
I dig into the source of eternal inspiration which everybody has and explains how to always be able to tap into the flow.

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In this tutorial
00:00 I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO PLAY?
00:22 John Roucco – The Best Advice Ever!
02:04 Melodies
03:35 Chord Inspiration
05:15 Creative Scales
06:01 STUCK? Get Out Of It
06:48 Sound Execution Musicality
07:45 Eternal Inspiration
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Amazing Jazz Lines – Play This Scale Exercise
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Chord note solos – strong melodies with awesome rhythm https://youtu.be/kDRytP4m7jY
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Coltrane plays the Blues
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10 Major7 Jazz Chord Licks That Work

10 Major7 Jazz Chord Licks That Work
Major chords should be easy to play, but don’t make them dull and uninteresting.
Coming up with good ideas on your major chords is sometimes a challenge.
You should be able to approach this from many different angles.
Here is how you can add more jazz line options to your major 7 chords.

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In this tutorial
00:00 10 jazz solo ideas on major chords
00:45 Don’t play the root
02:08 Licks from the root
03:01 Dexter Gordon major7 lick
04:25 Become versatile – Chord lick exercise
06:23 Hitting the 5th, adding Charlie Parker
07:53 The magical 6th degree
08:35 The 7th as a target note
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BEST PRACTISE HABITS – GET THE MOST OUT OF YOUR LIMITED TIME
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Solo Manual Take The A-Train
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Dexter Gordon – There Will Never Be Another You
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Coltrane Parker Must Have Bebop Licks – Basic Jazz Vocabulary


COLTRANE + PARKER  – BEBOP LICKS YOU NEED TO KNOW

Learning by copying your heroes is so important. 
John Coltrane and Charlie Parker are two of my great heroes. 
One of Coltrane’s heroes was Charlie Parker. 
I take two super bebop licks, pull them apart and explains how practice , add to your technical training and use directly in your music

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In this tutorial
00:00 Coltrane Parker Must Have Bebop Licks
00:08 ALL THE BEBOP YOU NEED!
00:36 Charlie Parker Lick
02:38 Use it in your own music
03:10 Chromatic approach note technical exercise
04:05 John Coltrane bebop lick
05:51 Practice the bebop dominant scale
06:41 Super Major7 chord exercise
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8 Chord Patterns You Need To Know
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Practice Manual 3 of the greatest bebop licks 100 ways to use
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JAZZ IMPROVISATION 7 STEPS TO LEARN FASTER

JAZZ IMPROVISATION 7 STEPS TO LEARN FASTER
When practicing music there are definitely no shortcuts, only ways to practice better.
In this video I go through the best and fastest way to learn jazz improvisation.
Going into detail on how you should approach music learning will get you there faster and better.

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In this tutorial
00:00 JAZZ IMPROVISATION 7 STEPS TO LEARN FASTER
01:10 LEARN THE SOUND OF JAZZ AND JAZZ IMPROVISATION
03:13 LEARN THE MELODIES OF JAZZ MUSIC
04:24 SOUND
05:15 KNOW YOUR TOOLS – CHORDS, SCALES AND RHYTHM
06:02 CHORDS AND RHYTHM
07:48 LEARN TO TRUST YOUR EARS
09:35 MUSIC THEORY
10:26 SCALES AND RHYTHM
11:56 SUMMING UP
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Get the best saxophone sound
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jazz chords – this is how to learn and remember
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SCALES – how to play super great solos using basic scales
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Jens Larsen Backing track Blues in F
https://youtu.be/Z3ZF80Z1Oq8

Sonny Rollins – Sonnymoon for two
https://youtu.be/KCzV9PxGS30

Charlie Parker – Now’s the time
https://youtu.be/ryNtmkfeJk4

Dexter Gordon – Blue Bossa
https://youtu.be/6sr7BXinJMw

John Coltrane – Soultrane
https://youtu.be/o8kf9RIBltY

Cannonball Adderley – Autumn Leaves
https://youtu.be/u37RF5xKNq8

Paul Desmond – Here is that Rainy Day
https://youtu.be/1V88bYnezyE

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Great Jazz sound – minor over dominant

3 great minor sounds to play on dominant chords
Adding vocabulary to your playing is very important.
The more ways you are able to get around in the changes of a tune, the more flexible you are in your playing, the more options you have the easier it is to make the best choice in your music.
You want to be able to move freely around, you want to react to what the piano player throws at you when playing, you want to move outside the key and surprise your fellow musicians and the audience with a sudden hip move. 
Getting more options in how to play and improvise on dominant chords is a massive addon to your flexibility.

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In this video
Look into the II-V music theory
Explore how we can add a II to the V
Interchange the V with the IIm7
Add three different II’s to the V
Build jazz lines using the II interchanged
Show, play and analyse three II-V-I lines using interchanging II functions. 

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“64 alternate minor chord building blocks + 24 II-V-I lines using alternate minor”
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“Analyze and recognize the II-V-I – know your theory and apply it + two basic II-V-I licks”
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My setup:
 saxophone: Selmer MKVI 82xxx
Mouthpiece is an old Otto Link Babbit – refaced from opening 6 to opening 8/8,5
Alto – The Martin Alto
Soprano – Yanagisawa Elimona

How to connect yout technique to your playing

SCALE FUNCTIONS – PRACTICE LIKE THIS IS MORE EFFECTIVE
How to connect your technique to your playing
Getting inspired by my technique, yes it is fun to be able to execute. I need more technique, yes of course, but not for the sake of the technique.
Do it for the sake of music!
I believe the goal with technique exercise is to practice great applicable material which is fitting directly into melodies and solos which you will be playing.
And not to practice material we will not use on a daily basis. 

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In this video
Why is it important to connect your technique to functions?
What does it mean to connect your scale functions to your playing? 
How do you practice your scale functions?
Build functional technique exercises
Apply functional technique exercises to your playing
Show, play and analyse three jazz lines applying functional scale exercises
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23 functional major scale exercises + 46 example licks on how to apply”
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Scale exercises – This is how to play music while practicing your scales
https://youtu.be/vXI7SQOjKv4

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My setup:
 saxophone: Selmer MKVI 82xxx
Mouthpiece is an old Otto Link Babbit – refaced from opening 6 to opening 8/8,5
Alto – The Martin Alto
Soprano – Yanagisawa Elimona