10 vocabulary components inside one 8-bar phrase to help you see, hear, and feel important connections between chords.
Listening Lab: Joe Henderson – Recorda Me – The Sound of Natural 6 On Minor and Using Minor Triads In Colorful Ways
We’ll explore the ways Joe’s melody and solo describe the harmony, and take inspiration for some fresh ways to re-purpose minor triads to create colorful melodic lines.
Interchangeable Modes and the Value of Repetition – Shedding One Minor II V From “Stella By Starlight”
Almost twenty minutes of me shedding just two bars of “Stella By Starlight,” starting with some practicable vocabulary. I’ll show you how I practice looping individual lines and eventually spin it out into full improvisation.
Let’s shed a 2-5-1 in E Major (concert)
Repetition, repetition, repetition. Play along with me on this one phrase and by the end it’ll be stuck in your noggin. 🙂
Using the 7-T Practice Framework to Convert a Lick You Transcribe into Your Own Vocabulary (Hank Mobley)
In this lesson we’ll take a Hank Mobley ii-V-I nugget and put it through the 7T Practice Framework to turn it into original vocabulary.
A technique for making your 8th note lines swing harder & some tasty shortcuts to add flavor to dominant chords and ii Vs
Learn some of my favorite “go-to” harmonic substitutions for dominant and minor chords (and thus ii Vs), as well as a technique for making your 8th note lines swing harder.
A “Quick Win” Vocab Nugget: A ii V Phrase Highlighting the Dominant Flat 9 Sound
A quick nugget of vocabulary over a ii-V-I that utilizes the b9 sound.
The Sharp 4 Half Diminished Turnaround: A Common Jazz Chord Progression and Effective Practice Tool
This is an important turnaround to be familiar with not only because it appears in some common jazz standards, but because it’s an extended series of building blocks.
Members Play “Ecaroh” (Hard Bop Classic)
Bob’s review and feedback plus a PDF breaking down the “nugget” and what to do about that one note. 😉