Music theory added to your playing, together with your ear training is the fastest way to get better at improvising jazz.Adding understanding and systematics to your playing can give you ...
Playing the pentatonic scales, Bebop scales and basic arpeggios are essential skills you need to master when playing jazz Blues .Learn the simple trademarks behind every playing style and get ...
When I began playing music and when I chose to continue, there are certain steps I would have liked to have practiced differently. Putting attention on 4 of the very ...
This scale exercise gets your scales and chords together.Practicing this way enables you to immediately add your scales exercises to your music in a highly functional and musical way. LINK ...
Joe Henderson and Chris Potterhear the great similarities and how they each play their own licks, but so much inspiration overflow from Joe Henderson to Chris Potter. These two masters of ...
Through practicing these three steps you can open up the higher registers of the saxophone. Beginning with how to hear notes and playing overtones.Moving into playing in the altissimo registerAnd ...
These three exercises will teach you the basics of playing jazz linesExplaining simple chords and arpeggios, forward motion and guide tone lines. Adding scales and you have a great mix ...
Chris Potter has such a refined link to the great heroes of jazz, John Coltrane, Michael Brecker, Charlie Parker and the likes.How Chris Potter mixes the different inspirational streams into ...
Them The way Coltrane plays on minor chords should inspire us all.I show you how Coltrane uses enclosures and really nice sounding extensions on minor chords.I get around how Coltrane ...
Learn all basics of jazz improvisation by playing this simple pentatonic scale concept. From simple 2-3 note figures to 8th note linesLearn how to change chords – plan and play forward ...
How a simple Cmaj7 chord is linked to so many more functions than being a tonic function. Learn to use your known standard major7 licks in new ways. Apply the licks ...
The information found in John Coltrane’s playing can keep you busy for ages. I have taken out a few of my favorite Non Bebop Coltrane licks and dug out the ...
The rhythmic concept in how Chris Potter plays arpeggios is really worth checking out.How the rhythm of the arpeggios adds so much value to the lines Chris Potter plays.Realizing that ...
Modern Jazz and bebop is linked together – there is no doubt about this.All the great players of today have all studied bebop relentlessly. The step to take you closer to ...
The use of triads is an amazing way to access both inside and outside playing.The easy shape of the triad, with only three notes, is a super great way to ...
II-V-I licks are one of the most common progressions in jazz music.We need to be able to understand and get around in this progression.I play and explain three levels of ...
Working on double time playing is nothing different than playing “normal” 8th notes, you just need to do it. In this video I give easy and clear practice examples taken out ...
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 ...
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. ...
Transposing music into different keys is such a big part of music. The keys are like different colours and give each a completely different impression.Learn to transpose the easy way. ...
10 Major7 Jazz Chord Licks That WorkMajor chords should be easy to play, but don’t make them dull and uninteresting. Coming up with good ideas on your major chords is ...
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 ...
This is how to play music while practicing your scalesWe love music, we love to play music, we love to practice music. So we are really into music, how to ...
SCALE FUNCTIONS – PRACTICE LIKE THIS IS MORE EFFECTIVEHow to connect your technique to your playingGetting inspired by my technique, yes it is fun to be able to execute. I ...
GET THE SOUND OF THE TRITONE SUBSTITUTION Getting new sounds into your vocabulary is sometimes difficult. What should you play and how should you get on with it. One of ...
HOW TO USE BEBOP CHROMATIC SURROUNDING NOTES Getting into improvisation and approaching jazz improvisation is completely linked to playing bebop. There is no way around it. It sounds really great ...
Jazz articulation – practise this – sound like a pro 4 ways to practise great articulation – examples and how to’s! LINK TO VIDEODOWNLOAD PDF ON PATREON Articulation is one ...
Scale patterns – 3 scale patterns you must learn Training your scale patterns is great exercise, but are you training the right scale patterns?Are you actually using the patterns you ...
Amazing Jazz Lines – Play This Scale ExerciseThere is one most efficient scale exercise to improve your technique and improve your music!And it is no secret – it is playing ...
SCALE EXERCISES – DON’T WASTE YOUR TIMEThis is how to play music while practicing your scalesWe love music, we love to play music, we love to practice music. So we ...
COLTRANE THE BEST BEBOP 3 Coltrane Bebop Licks Explained John Coltrane was a young musician caught in the magic of Bebop as played by Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie in ...
Triads – A Massive Boost To Your SolosWhen listening to Chris Potter I get very inspired. This video is how to add triads to your playing and practice and get ...
These 5 Tips Will Save You Years of PracticeIn this video I will go over 5 practice shortcuts I did not have when I started out as a jazz saxophone ...
This is how to connect the scales to the chordsGetting from playing rather simple chord note solos using a couple of chord notes to using scales and playing longer lines ...
Here are the technical and melodic tools you should master on any standard Blue Bossa, Perdido, Autumn Leaves, Blues, Pent up House Beginning with 5 basic standards is a great ...
4 tips on how to play amazing solos on minor chords In jazz music there are so many tunes where you have long stretches of minor chords on which you should ...
Visualize and silent practice – Get the most out of your practise in this wayMany saxophone players do not have the possibility to practise at home with sound. This is ...
3 of the greatest bebop lick’s – apply to gain great flexibility Using bebop licks when improvising is a must. It almost does not matter what music style you improvise in ...
BASIC JAZZ LANGUAGE – YOU REALLY HAVE TO PLAY 8TH NOTESHow to build great 8th note lines connecting chords Generally speaking the jazz language is consisting of 8th note lines ...
DOUBLE TIME – YOU NEED TO START SLOWHow to practice and add 16th note lines to your playing Rhythm is the most important matter in music.You really need to be ...
RHYTHM CHANGE – HOW TO EXPAND THE CHORD SCHEME Add the 6th dominant chord to a simple rhythm change scheme Rhythm change is a great chord scheme to play. All ...
A lot of times in jazz you hear a great solo and suddenly a super fat blues lick. Between the somewhat complicated lines many players often add a super great ...
II-V-I LINES AN EASY METHOD TO JAZZ SOLOS This is how to construct great II-V-I lines with simple scales and chords You are probably already practicing your technique. Scales and ...
In this video I give some exercises and examples in how to improvise over a minor II-V-I using the diatonic 7th chords. I will focus on the minor II-V-I of ...
In this video I get around the minor II-V-I in minor and explains how you can use the diatonic triads when you improvise. Eø7 – A7(b9) – Dm6. I call ...
This video lesson explains the basic scales and chords used over a minor II-V-I – Am. The minor II-V-I consists of three different scales, one on each chord of the ...
In this video lesson I talk about the different 7th chords on a II-V-I in Dmajor. I start with the scale of Dmajor, the scale has two sharps with the ...
In this video I talk about how to use diatonic triads in Gmajor. Further i present the triads in the Gmajor scale and a II-V-I in G. Diatonic triads is ...
This lesson describes a way to get diatonic approach notes into your playing by guiding you through certain exercises and progressions. It also gives you some prefabricated licks you can ...
