Jazz Improvisation Techniques

Features Jazz Improvisation Techniques

Musicians – playing jazz and other genres – use improvisation to explore their creativity and to generate musical ideas.
This course – by the talented jazz artist Gregg Fine – shows how to unleash the power of improvisation in your music!App Features:• 120 minutes of video training• Super clear explanations• Offline Playback (no internet connection needed)• Easy to navigate
Course Outline:1.
Intro and Course Overview (02:20)2.
Playing "Standards" (03:10)3.
"Standards": Exploring the Song - Part 1 (02:33)4.
"Standards": Exploring the Song - Part 2 (02:21)5.
Common Tones (02:40)6.
Melody Jazz (02:04)7.
Chromatic Passing Notes (02:53)8.
Chromatic Approach Notes (02:16)9.
Variation and Repetition (05:35)10.
Call and Response (02:09)11.
Practice Time: "Standards" (01:06)12.
Playing Ballads (06:34)13.
Building a Solo (02:50)14.
Practice Time: Ballads (04:59)15.
Playing Bebop (04:58)16.
Improvising with the Bebop Scale (04:02)17.
Enclosures (02:47)18.
Using Altered Notes in a Solo (03:24)19.
Tritone Substitutions (04:35)20.
Quotes (03:54)21.
Anticipation (01:48)22.
Trading Fours (03:41)23.
Practice Time: Bebop (01:43)24.
Modal Jazz (03:26)25.
Modal Jazz: Exploring the Song (03:31)26.
Using Space (02:22)27.
Using Motifs (03:13)28.
Working with Different Scales (04:34)29.
Improvising with Pentatonics (04:24)30.
Intervallic Playing (03:25)31.
Playing "Inside" and "Outside" (02:04)32.
Chordal Superimposition (02:06)33.
Practice Time: Modal Jazz (02:01)34.
Bitonality (03:21)35.
Bitonal Chords (02:23)36.
Improvising over Bitonal Chords (04:14)37.
Practice Time: Bitonality (03:49)