The Essential Lesson Bundle
A great series of six lessons designed to give you a strong set of fundamental skills. These will help you get comfortable with all of the lessons on the site.
Video List:
Line Connections
Back Cycling
Secret Jazz Chord
Dominant Chord Study
Study in Minor II-V's
Major II-V's
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Line Connections (Moments Notice) - Essential
In this lesson I discuss my methods of connecting lines through chord changes. I show you how I visualize the linear material over chord forms ...
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Back Cycling - Essential
One of the most requested lessons is here! I discuss my methods of using back cycling as a tool for comping, improvising and chord melody arrangeme...
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Secret Jazz Chord - Essential
Without question the idea of the "Secret Jazz Chord" has helped me more than anything to gain fretboard mastery and harmonic confidence. ...
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Dominant Chord Study - Essential
In this lesson I discuss the two types of dominant chords we deal with in jazz tunes, resolving and non resolving. I keep the discussion tw...
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A Study in Minor II-Vs - Essential
In this lesson I discuss the way I approach the minor II-V. I use Dizzy Gillespie's tune Woody'n You as a vehicle for all of the demonstrations. To...
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Major II-V's - Essential
In this essential lesson, I discuss the major II-V utilizing both chordal and linear examples. I have provided the exercises that gave me a great f...
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