Stop Feeling Lost on the Changes: How To Memorize a Standard and Keep Your Place in the Form
How to practice any standard and REALLY learn the tune.
Quick Tip for Memorizing Melodies
Tip begins at 6:15.
Autumn Leaves
We’ll use this “must know” standard to examine the power of guide tones—plus a KILLER exercise for getting chord changes under your fingers.
Getting Away from Root-Based Improvising: A Simple Trick to Add Color to Chord Progressions (“Joy Spring”)
Tired of always playing chords from the root? This exercise will help you develop the skill of seeing a set of chord changes and replacing them with a close cousin.
Woody ‘N You
Minor ii-V’s got ya down? Dive deep into a brilliant Chris Potter solo over this (kinda tricky) tune and discover some new ways to simplify them.
What Is This Thing Called Love?
Tips for internalizing chord changes, one scale that works over half-diminished, altered dominant, and Lydian chords, and using a diminished major 7th chord in a ii-V-I.