Accurate bending is essential to creating amazing solos. How to practice bending is an interesting question, since it is not often addressed. Today I'm going to show you an approach to help you make …
Half Diminished – Four Chords In One
Half Diminished, Four Chords In One. Welcome to the 5th installment of the series "Exploring Chords". Today I dive into another type of seventh chord, the Half Diminished chord. This is an interesting …
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Learning To Improvise Over Chord Changes
Learning to improvise over chord changes is a long process! It is very challenging and can be exceedingly frustrating. The basic understanding of how to improvise is hard enough, then when you through …
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A Simple Chord Melody To Practice
Welcome to another lesson! The first week of the month is chord week so this lesson focuses on a simple chord melody. Alternatively I like to call it a melodic progression, because I took a chord …
How to Solo Melodically Using Motifs
You may have heard, or read, somebody giving advice to new improvisers that goes something like this, "just play melodically" or "sing what you play". While these vague suggestions do indeed …
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Outlining Chord Progressions w/ Unique Arpeggio Patterns
There are many different ways to approach improvisation. Using a linear approach, you derive ideas from scale patterns. In a vertical approach, you use non-consecutive scale tones (aka arpeggios), and …
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