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FROM MELODY TO BEBOP

 

Learn to improvise over a jazz standard — step by step

 

I've created this free training to show you exactly how I approach jazz improvisation.

Using When the Saints Go Marching In, I'll take you from the melody all the way through to creating authentic jazz lines using the same concepts I teach inside my membership.

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Watch the complete training below

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​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​What you'll learn

 

We'll build your improvisation step by step:

  • Melody

  • Chord tones — triads

  • Improvising with triads

  • Chord tones — 7ths

  • Applying rhythm

  • Improvising with rhythm

  • Leading notes

  • Scales

  • Approaching beat 1

  • Approaching beat 3

  • Approaching beats 1 & 3

  • Enclosures

  • Chromatic enclosures

  • Putting everything together into a complete solo

 

This isn't about memorising hundreds of random licks.

It's about understanding how to build jazz language and use it in your improvisation.

 

Download the training PDF

 

I've also put together a PDF containing the concepts from the training, in Bb, Eb and concert pitch as well as bass clef.

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Want to take this further?

This training gives you a taste of the approach I use to teach jazz improvisation.

Inside my membership, we take these concepts much further and apply them to real jazz standards, solos and improvisation lessons.

You'll get access to:

  • 2+ years of jazz lessons

  • A large library of jazz solos

  • Step-by-step improvisation lessons

  • Bebop language and vocabulary

  • Lessons based around real jazz standards

  • New material and resources

  • The complete library available immediately

  • ​Level 3 offers more one to one contact with me.

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Ready to go deeper?

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JOIN THE JAZZ MEMBERSHIP

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It's just £12 per month.

No complicated course to buy.
No long-term commitment.

Just a huge library of jazz improvisation lessons and solos designed to help you become a better improviser.

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Prefer to just use the free training?

That's absolutely fine.

Watch the training, download the PDF and start applying the ideas to your own playing.

And if you decide you'd like to go further, the membership is there whenever you're ready.

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Solos in the vault
 

  1. Blue Bossa

  2. Take the A train

  3. What is this thing called love

  4. Softly as a morning sunrise

  5. Tea for two

  6. On the street where you live

  7. Mack the knife

  8. Autumn leaves

  9. Happy birthday

  10. Just friends

  11. There will never be another you

  12. Misty

  13. Simple blues - Pentatonic

  14. Perdido

  15. Someday my prince will come

  16. Sweet Georgia Brown

  17. All the things you are

  18. All of me

  19. Honeysuckle Rose

  20. Have you met miss Jones?

  21. Joy spring

  22. Stella by starlight

  23. Summertime

  24. Surrey with a fringe on top

Lessons in the vault

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  1. Major 2-5-1

  2. Major 2-5-1

  3. Minor 2-5-1

  4. Short minor 2-5-1

  5. Short Major 2-5-1

  6. Bebop language major 2-5-1

  7. Understanding vocabulary

  8. Importance of the chord notes

  9. Bebop elements

  10. Bebop elements

  11. Key centre chord tones and scales

  12. Using phrases in a solo

  13. Pentatonic scales on a simple blues

  14. Pentatonic/Bebop

  15. Chord tone targeting

  16. Dominant/bebop scales workout

  17. Broken chords/bebop vocabulary

  18. All of me - Bebop fundamentals

  19. On Green Dolphin Street - Motifs

  20. Line fore Lyons – Chord notes

  21. Joy spring – Short ii-v

  22. Minor ii-v Stella

  23. Double time playing

  24. Key centres – Surrey with a fringe on top

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