exercisebook in c - jazz improvisation techniques, tips ... and improvise with in real-time to craft...

21
Essential Exercises For The Jazz Improviser Learn to improvise STRONG and LYRICAL melodic lines, with over 200 exercises and 5 hours of VIDEO demos! Power Melodic Jazzadvice.com

Upload: doanbao

Post on 30-Mar-2018

219 views

Category:

Documents


2 download

TRANSCRIPT

Essential Exercises For The Jazz Improviser

Learn to improvise STRONG and LYRICAL melodic lines, with over 200

exercises and 5 hours of VIDEO demos!

PowerMelodic

Ja z z a d v i c e . c o m

Melodic Power | Jazzadvice.com

WELCOMEWelcome to Melodic Power.

You’re about to embark on a journey that will transform how you think about jazz improvisation. It’s not easy and it will take time and dedication, but if you have the desire, it will be a lot of fun.

The goal of this course is to teach you melodic techniques that you can begin to use nearly instantly to craft strong melodies over the most common chords that you’ll encounter. We extracted each technique from the playing of some of the best players of this music, and we distilled all the techniques into useable, easy to apply melodic tools. This course in fact is not the product of weeks or months, but years of study, transcription, and ideas that we’ve learned and discovered.

In this course you’re going to be introduced to a whole new way of thinking and playing, so take your time and practice each step along the way.

Who this course is for

This course is for anyone who has a desire to improvise jazz, but it’s especially for the folks that have been trying to improvise for a while and are simply not getting the results they want. If that sounds like you, then this course will remedy many of the problems you’ve been facing with clear easy to apply techniques and exercises.

Now, you do need a basic understanding of chords and scales to most effectively navigate through this course. If something is confusing, make sure to look it up or search jazzadvice.com for the answer, or you can even shoot us an email.

The course is streamlined to include only what you need to improve fast and as you progress through this course, you will improve every single day.

Melodic Power | Jazzadvice.com

BEFORE WE BEGIN…

Some Important Things to Understand

1

2

3

4

5

The Big Problem and What To Do About It

How To Use This Course and Get The Most Out Of It

How To Practice The Exercises

Melodic Concepts Vs. Techniques

Terms

Melodic Power | Jazzadvice.com

1 - The Big Problem and What to Do About It

I want you to do a quick test…

Take the chord Ab major. Ok. Got it? Now what comes to mind?

A scale? A chord arpeggio? Perhaps a lick or two?

Now, this is where the problem is…

When you think of a chord, you need to have a few things in mind. First, the sound. You want to be familiar with the chord’s sound on an intimate level and understand how each chord-tone sounds in the context of the particular chord quality. This is the focus of our course The Ear Training Method.

Third, and what we’re working on in this course, you need melodic ways of playing over the chord: concrete techniques that you have at your fingertips, that you can access and improvise with in real-time to craft meaningful melodies.

And if you’re saying, hold up, I don’t have any of those, that’s okay.

That’s what this whole course is all about.

Not only will it give you some of the most powerful melodic tools used by some of the greatest performers of this music, it will teach the underlying thinking process that you can use to discover and develop your own melodic techniques.

Second, you need to have a mental map of the chord and all its chord tones. This mental map allows you to easily conceptualize chords, progressions, and chord-tones, and how they’re all intricately related. Essentially, this mental map turns theory into accessible knowledge you can use, and it’s the focus of our course Visualization for Jazz Improvisation.

Melodic Power | Jazzadvice.com

WHEN YOU THINK OF A CHORD

AN AURAL PERSPECTIVE (EAR)

What’s the root of the chord? The 3rd, the 5th, the 7th, the 9th, the 11th, 13th? Any common alterations? Can I think of these with no effort in real-time? Do I know where they are on my instrument with no thought required?

A MENTAL PERSPECTIVE (MENTAL MAP)

Do I have clearly defined strategies to play over this chord sound? How do my heroes play over this chord? How can I use each chord-tone to make a strong melodic statement over this chord?

A PRACTICAL MELODIC PERSPECTIVE (MELODIC TECHNIQUES)

YOU NEED…

What does the chord sound like? What does each chord-tone sound like in context? Where is this chord headed?

These 3 perspectives—there are of course many more useful perspectives—give you a fundamental understanding of how to play over a chord in a melodic and lyrical way by connecting your ear, mind, and fingers. This is the path to hearing what you want to play, and playing what you hear.

Melodic Power | Jazzadvice.com

Scales and theory are just the beginning

When we first learn to improvise, even over the course of the first several years, scales and theory seem to dominate how we’re told to think about improvising. We think along the lines of: “Every chord implies the use of a particular scale. When we improvise over that chord, we simply play notes from that scale.”

Focusing on melody and acquiring melodic techniques

Theory and scales are incredibly useful and necessary, however, they’re just the beginning. You must get beyond “thinking in terms of scales,” and acquire specific strategies from your favorite jazz improvisors to playing over chords. In other words, scales are very general: the possibilities and combinations of notes you can make with them is very large. That’s why when you think of an entire scale over a chord it’s pretty difficult to make a clear beautiful melody.

Instead, if you were to focus on a triad, several specific notes, or a piece of the scale, it would be much easier to craft a strong melody, and that is what jazz improvisation is actually all about: creating strong improvised melodies in real-time.

It sounds counterintuitive, but by thinking of less and understanding how the great players of this music use a particular melodic device, you actually can express more. And that’s what jazz melodic techniques are—specific melodic strategies from legendary jazz improvisers that you can utilize over a specific chord.

With each lesson in this course, you’ll add to your melodic toolbox, giving you more and more melodic power with each newly acquired musical device.

This mode of improvising will eventually leave you feeling lost or stagnant. Why? Because aimlessly mixing up notes and wandering around a scale is not jazz improvisation. Scales give you a framework, a starting point, for how to think about the chord-tones of a chord in a linear fashion instead of a “stacked” chordal view. They also give you a framework for understanding a chord progression and how chords progress from one to the next within a specific key, or how they move through multiple keys.

Melodic Power | Jazzadvice.com

2 - How To Use This Course and Get The Most Out Of It

Take your time

• There are 8 Lesson Groups, each containing between 5 and 10 individual lessons. Each of these lessons is packed with important concepts and practice exercises and could take anywhere from a week to several months to learn depending upon the individual. It’s okay to go slowly and at your own pace.

Use your judgement and creativity throughout the course

• Don’t be a robot! Use all the material to decide how you can best use it. • Be creative. Make the concepts your own and apply them to the tunes you’re

working on. Feel free to use any background tracks you already own.

Understand the role of rhythm in this course

• In general, the techniques we’re working on in this course are melodic, however, rhythm and harmony are directly connected to melody. You must vary the rhythms you use. To improve in this area, emulate your favorite players and study their rhythmic choices and pay close attention to how I use rhythm in the video demos.

Understand the 8 melodic concepts and their techniques

• In Section 4 of these Introduction Pages, there’s a list of the eight concepts. Make sure they all make sense to you.

Understand the terms used

• In Section 5 of these Introduction Pages, there’s a list of terms. Make sure you’re clear on all of them.

Understand how to practice the exercises

• On the following several pages we explain the format of the exercises and how to practice them. It’s vital you understand how the course is laid out and why.

Melodic Power | Jazzadvice.com

3 - How to Practice The Exercises

Practicing the exercises in this course is the point.

This eBook is not meant to be read in an armchair, it’s meant to be studied and put to work in your practice room! That goes for the video demos too. To make fast improvement, all you have to do is follow the lessons and do the exercises, while having fun and applying your own creativity.

The Format

Each of the eight groups of lessons has a single overarching concept. The group will begin by giving you an introduction to the overarching concept. Then, you’ll dive into the specific techniques as you get into each lesson.

Each lesson will begin with an overview of the techniques you’re about to learn including examples of the techniques from legendary players. Study these sections before approaching the exercises so you have a solid understanding of the techniques before you begin to practice them.

After the explanatory material, the lesson will denote the specific practice exercises required to learn a particular technique. The exercises are progressive, so make sure to master one before moving on to the next.

And don’t forget to watch the video demos of each exercise. The videos will help you tremendously as they showcase exactly what it is you’re supposed to practice.

*Note that you must be connected to the internet to watch the videos and to play the audio samples throughout the eBook.

A note about range

Don’t be married to the notated range written for each exercise. Feel free to adjust the range either up or down as needed to accommodate your instrument and ability. Make sure, however, to spend extra time in the extreme ranges of your instrument, as these tend to be the most difficult to execute.

Melodic Power | Jazzadvice.com

The Chord Symbols

All the chord symbols are illustrated in the briefest possible manner, meaning they will not be notated even with the “7” symbol unless it’s a dominant chord. If you’re interested why we make this choice, we go deeper into it in our Jazz Visualization eBook. In short, things like the 7th, 9th, 11th, and 13th are implied in jazz chord voicings and to visualize chords more effectively, it helps to eliminate these from the chord symbol. Also, sometimes we’ll say half diminished and other times, minor 7 b5. You should be familiar with both of these variations.

Enharmonic Spellings

Throughout the course, we use a variety of enharmonic chord spellings and chord-tone spellings. Some may be standard and others less common. It’s our belief that you should be able to think in terms of any enharmonic spelling, so for example, you should be able to think of the 3rd of Ab minor as “Cb” or “B” without it giving you a headache. In reality, you want to do away with the written page altogether, as it’s really a crutch.

Thinking in numbers

We’ll refer to each chord-tone as a number—the root is “1”, the third is “3” etc. Get used to always thinking of chord-tones as a number. It’s incredibly advantageous.

A quick overview of practicing a technique

Take your time with each exercise and make sure to watch the videos over and over to thoroughly understand what it is that you’re trying to accomplish. And, use the eBook as a guide. Remember, the whole point is to use the techniques you’re learning.

So, with each technique:

• Master the “Introduction” exercises • Work on the “Limit” and “Mix” improvisation exercises • Use the techniques on the tunes you’re already working on

• Listen to the audio clips of the written examples from jazz masters• Watch the video lesson and study the eBook

Melodic Power | Jazzadvice.com

The Process: Introduce, Limit, Mix (ILM)

How you practice improvisation is how you will perform it. What you DRILL over and over is what comes out when you go to improvise. It’s not magic. The process you will learn and utilize in this course teaches you how to practice in a way that actually makes the techniques come out in a creative way when you improvise.

One you conceptually understand a technique, you will introduce the technique through a series of simple exercises in all keys either around The Cycle or in half steps—these two root movements are the essential ones to practice. Master the simple exercise in all keys because they lay the groundwork for being able to truly improvise with the technique. Do not underestimate these exercise even though they’re simple and repetitive! It’s exactly these qualities that speed up your learning.

Then you’ll improvise with the technique in a limited fashion. This constitutes either improvising ONLY with the technique, or STARTING all your melodic lines with the technique. Once you can improvise within this limitation in a creative and lyrical manner, you’ll lift the limitation and mix all your techniques that you’ve already learned with the current technique you’re practicing.

THEN USE ILM (INTRODUCE, LIMIT, MIX)

INTRODUCEUse simple repetitive exercises to drill the basic technique

1LIMITImprovise with the technique imposing some sort of limitation

2MIXImprovise with the technique and mix it in real-time with all your other techniques

3

UNDERSTANDConceptualize the technique on a deep level

FIRST

Melodic Power | Jazzadvice.com

4 chords, 4 background tracks, and the tunes you’re working on

When most people practice improvising, they turn on background tracks (play alongs) of tunes and practice soloing over and over. Unfortunately, through this process, they’re reinforcing mistakes, rather than improving in one or several areas.

To improve you must practice with purpose and isolate the variables so you can zoom-in on exactly what you want to work on. To do this, the best way is not to work on a tune, or even a progression, but one repeated chord sound that lasts a while—a chord vamp.

A main part of this course is to REALLY learn every chord. The way you do this is to hangout on a chord for a long time and get comfortable with it. Making the harmony easy let’s you instead focus your mental energy on melody and rhythm. And we won’t deal with every possible chord, we’ll work on the four most common chords you’ll encounter in jazz tunes: major, dominant, minor, and half diminished (minor 7 flat 5). The chord symbols will be as basic as basic can be, often leaving out the “7” for sake of visual simplicity.

Drilling a technique over and over is very important. Just understanding something intellectually is completely useless. You must practice and drill the technique until it requires no thought or effort. That’s the only way you can use it in real-time when you go to improvise.

Once you drill the techniques over the four background tracks, MAKE SURE to apply the techniques to the tunes you’re working on. Consciously use them over the chords within a tune where they’re supposed to be used. Over time, you’ll naturally be able to freely use all your techniques over your favorite tunes.

If you study these four chords in depth as you do in this course, you’ll be able to easily play over the many variations of these chords, and understand how to adapt your techniques to other chords. From focus and limitation, comes freedom. There are only four background tracks, one for each chord type. They move at a slow tempo around The Cycle, giving you 16 measures to hangout and practice your techniques on each chord.

Melodic Power | Jazzadvice.com

Get away from the written page!!!

To get you going on each exercise, we write out every exercise in all keys, but using the music in front of you is a tremendous crutch, one that you eventually need to break free of.

In the activity of improvisation, your memory is your greatest asset.

With every technique, aim to be able to play it and have a clear mental image of it, without using the written sheet music. Only use the written exercises as a stepping stone toward this goal.

Using the video demos

Make sure you’re connected to the internet to view these and all the audio samples throughout the course.

For the videos, we wanted to give you as realistic an experience as possible to taking a lesson with us. The videos were recorded with no effects, not even reverb, in my practice room with nothing more than an inexpensive Shure microphone and an iPad.

There’s nothing tricky or fancy about them. Yes, we could have waited until we had the money and resources for a posh studio setup, but who knows if that day will ever come. We decided that it was more important to get this information in your hands today so you could start using the concepts and improving.

All the demos use the actual background tracks you get with the course so you can hear and see exactly how to use the resources you have. And, I try to play as clearly and simply as possible, so you can easily hear the techniques in action.

The demos also use text to explain the techniques as I play. This text will walk you through exactly what you’re hearing as I play it, giving you a better idea as to what’s going on as you’re watching the videos.

Every single exercise is demonstrated for you via streamable links.

Melodic Power | Jazzadvice.com

4 - The Melodic Concepts Vs. Techniques

There are 8 melodic concepts we will explore in this course:

1.) Triads 2.) Arpeggios 3.) Scales 4.) Approach Notes 5.) Enclosures 6.) Chromaticism 7.) Cells 8.) Harmonic Perspective

Where do these melodic concepts come from?

The 8 melodic concepts were defined by studying the “jazz language” within many solos. Are there more concepts? Of course, infinite really, but these are 8 fundamental concepts that will be the most effective to your rapid growth as an improvisor.

Now, these concepts alone won’t help you. You need to know specific techniques that use the concept: techniques that apply the concept in a direct way. That’s a very important point.

For example, if you use a specific enclosure technique that Chet baker used, and learn to use it like he did in the same harmonic context, and study the inner workings of the technique, you’re learning an accessible technique that you can apply. You’re learning jazz language.

Now when you go to play in that harmonic context, you’re not thinking of just a scale or chord arpeggio, but a specific melodic technique as well. Combining your theoretical scale and chord knowledge with these techniques gives you the tools you need to improvise true melodies.

Bringing melodic techniques into your improvisational thinking is a subtle part of the process in practicing jazz improvisation, but it makes all the difference in the world. Melodic techniques help you start your lines with purpose and direction, guide your ear and fingers, and give you clear ways to musically think, learn, and understand.

Melodic Power | Jazzadvice.com

A MELODIC TECHNIQUE

A MELODIC CONCEPT AND ITS TECHNIQUES

ANOTHER MELODIC TECHNIQUE

A SINGLE MELODIC CONCEPT (ANY ONE OF THE 8)

These techniques exist within the overarching melodic concept.

They’re extracted and distilled from “jazz language”—phrases from jazz legends

THEORY KNOWLEDGE

Your understanding of scales, chords, progressions, and how they’re all related supports your use of melodic techniques

AURAL KNOWLEDGE

Your ear training and ability to hear the different components of music supports

your use of melodic techniques

A melodic technique

Another melodic technique

And another melodic technique

And yet another melodic technique

Acquiring melodic techniques is the key to learning how to use your theory and aural knowledge in a musical way within the context of jazz.

You don’t abandon your scale knowledge, but use it to support and conceptualize the new things you’re learning. The more melodic techniques you acquire and practice, the more melodic power and freedom you’ll attain.

Melodic Power | Jazzadvice.com

5 - Terms

These terms are defined by us for our purposes. If you think of any of them differently that’s perfectly okay, we just want to be clear with you what we’re talking about. We use many words to describe the same thing—these words are grouped together.

Lines, melodic line, phrase, melody, statement, melodic statement - In all these cases we’re referring to the improvised succession of notes you’re playing while you improvise. These notes create a “melodic line.” Think of these melodic lines like a sentence. Your goal is to improvise strong melodic lines, one after the other, combining these “sentences” into an overall “story.”

Harmonic context - the chord or chord quality

Concept, melodic concept - the overarching category that a specific technique fits in. For example, a technique that uses an enclosure, uses the concept of enclosure. In this course, all the techniques fit into 1 of 8 melodic concepts.

Technique, tool, melodic technique - a very specific melodic strategy

Exercise - specific instructions of how to practice a technique so that it becomes a part of your improvisational arsenal

Drill - to repeat an exercise over and over until you don’t have to think to use it

Melodic Power | Jazzadvice.com

LESSONS 1A - 1G

Triad Techniques

Lesson 1A

Lesson 1B

Lesson 1C

Lesson 1D

Lesson 1E

Lesson 1F

Lesson 1G

The Benefits of Triads and How to Make Them Powerful

The 4 Plus Major Triad Technique

The 6 Plus Major Triad Technique

Using the 4 Plus Triad and 6 Plus Triad on Dominant

The 2 Plus Minor Triad Technique

The 4 Plus Minor Triad Technique

The Diminished Triad Plus 2 and 4 Techniques on Half Diminished

Melodic Power | Jazzadvice.com

1A - The Benefits of Triads and How to Make Them Powerful

Triads used in the right way can be extremely effective. Although there are seemingly endless ways to use these beautiful structures, we’re going to use them in a very specific and unique way in this course that you likely haven’t done before: we’ll combine the triads with other specific chord-tones to form a “melodic unit” that you can easily improvise with. As you’ll see from the examples, some of the best players use this tactic to achieve clear and melodic definitive statements.

Soon, you’ll be able to use these tactics too, but first let’s quickly talk about triads a little bit and try to understand what makes them so powerful.

Don’t underestimate the value of triads

Triads are simple. They’re only 3 notes, hence the word “Triad.” To form a triad you stack major or minor 3rds on-top of one another. They come in 4 different varieties: major, minor, diminished and augmented.

Because of their simplicity, we tend to think of triads as not worthy of serious study, and while it’s true that they’re only three notes, triads are used by the best musicians. They indeed are very much worth our time.

Triads have inherent qualities that make them effective

The natural structure of a triad, stacked 3rds, creates an inherently strong and recognizable structure. This strong structure is important because the listener can easily latch onto its sound. You can use the tonic triad as a sort of “home-base,” or when you play other triads besides the tonic triad, you can easily imply altered chord-tones or even other chords.

Knowing that the structure of a triad is an easily recognizable unit is an important piece of information crucial to success with triad techniques.

& ˙̇̇ ˙̇̇bMajor Minor ˙̇̇bb ˙̇̇#nDiminished Augmented

∑ ∑

& œ œ œ œ ÓC Major 7 Arpeggio

∑ ∑ ∑

& œ œ œ œ ÓCmaj

∑ ∑ ∑

& œ œ œ œ ÓCmaj

∑ ∑ ∑

&œ œ œ œb œ œ œ œCmaj

w ∑ ∑

&œ œ œb œ œ œ œ œC7

w ∑ ∑

&œ œb œb œ œb œ œb œbC|

w ∑ ∑

THE 4 TRIAD TYPES ALL STARTING ON C

Melodic Power | Jazzadvice.com

They’re easy to conceptualize and think about

Thinking about a whole scale, 7 notes, or even a 7th chord, 1357, can be overwhelming. And you’re probably thinking, “No, scales and 7th chord arpeggios are easy to think about.” Well, there’s a difference between being able to name the notes after a moment, and having the information at your fingertips without any thought or effort (the primary subject of our Jazz Visualization Course).

Triads are easier to think about than pretty much anything else and given how useful they are, it makes sense to harness they’re capabilities to the fullest.

Triads give you a strong foundation for a chord’s structure

Often when we first start to practice jazz improvisation, we’re overwhelmed with scales. We’re trying to think of so much at once that none of the information really gets to the point of mastery - the point you need it to be at to actually use it.

Triads provide you a stepping stone to the entire chord structure. If you spend a lot of time practicing the triad exercises and drilling their structures into your mind, ear, and fingers, you’ll form a strong chordal foundation and build your mental facility as an improvisor.

Learning versatile triad techniques

In this group of lessons involving triads, you’ll learn some techniques that are super easy to instantly use and get great results from. You’ll quickly go from meandering in a scale to creating clear singable melodies.

Melodic Power | Jazzadvice.com

Lesson 1B Techniques

To begin, you’ll learn how to use some extremely useful triad techniques over major chords. This technique and the next one will help you form a strong foundation for playing over major chords and teach you how to “deal” with the 4th, what most people call an “avoid note” because of its dissonant sound over a major chord.

If you hold the 4th out over a major chord, it sounds dissonant because of the clash with the major 3rd, but using the following technique, you’ll train your ear and fingers to pair the 4th with the 3rd in a way that conveys the tension of the 4th, naturally and logically resolving to the 3rd.

The 4 Plus Major Triad Technique

What it is: Use of the 4th scale degree of a major scale along with the major triad to create a melodic unit.

Where to use it: On major (and dominant chords, as you’ll see later). It works great when you’re on the same chord for a while and want to make a statement.

Why it’s important: It teaches you how to control the sound of the 4th on a major chord and resolve it to the 3rd. This chord-tone (the 4th or 11th) is often called an “avoid note” but if you know how to use the 4th in combination with the 3rd (the idea of “43”) as you do in the 4 Plus Triad Technique, you’ll be able to make use the 4th in your improvised melodies and create definitive melodic statements. Make sure to KEEP the 4th next to the 3rd throughout using this technique and don’t just mix the notes up in random order.

& ’ ’ ’ ’Bbmaj7

’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’Ebmaj7

& ∑ ∑ ∑ ∑

& œ œ œb œn œb œ œ œ œ œ œ œ3 3 3

F

˙ Ó ∑ ∑

& Ó Œ œb .˙b œ œ œb œb œ5

Ebmaj7

œb œb œ œb œ Œ Ó5

& œ œb œ œb œb œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ Œ3 3

5

Ebmaj7

∑ ∑ ∑

& œb œb œb rœ œb œ œ œ œ Œ3

Ebmaj7

∑ ∑ ∑

& œ# œ ‰ Jœ ‰ œ œ œGmaj7

œb œ œ Ó ∑ ∑

& œ# œ ‰ Jœb Jœn ‰ œ œbG7 œ œ œ œ œ œCmaj7

œ œ Ó ∑

& Ó œ œ œb œBb7

œb œn œb œb œ œn œ œEbmaj7

œb œ œ œb Jœb ‰ Œ ∑

How to Improvise lines

©

Kenny GarrettHave you Met

Tranei'm old fashionedmelody

Kenny DrewI'm old Fashi

Lee MorganI'm old fash

Clifford After You'veGone

Bill EvansApril - konitz live@half note

Same albumyou stepped out

John Coltrane, “I’m Old Fashioned” on Blue Train @00:41 Play example

PAIR THE 4TH (Ab) AND THE TRIAD (Eb G Bb). NOTICE HOW THE 4TH ALWAYS REMAINS NEXT TO THE 3RD IN THIS TECHNIQUE.

(not available in preview)

& .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..œb œ œb œ œ œBbmaj

œb œ œb œb œ œEbmaj

œb œ œb œb œ œAbmaj

œb œ œb œb œ œDbmaj

& .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..œ œ# œ# œ# œ œ

F#maj

œ œ# œ œ# œ œBmaj

œ œ# œ œ œ œEmaj

œ œ# œ œ œ œAmaj

& .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..œ œ# œ œ œ œ

Dmaj

œ œ œ œ œ œGmaj

œ œ œ œ œ œCmaj

œb œ œ œ œ œ

Fmaj

& .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..œ œb œœb œ œ

Bbmaj

œb œb œœb œ œ

Ebmaj

œb œb œœb œ œ

Abmaj

œb œb œœb œ œ

Dbmaj

& .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..œ# œ# œ#œ œ œ

F#maj

œ# œ œ#œ œ œ

Bmaj

œ œ œ#œ œ œ

Emaj

œ œ œ#œ œ œ

Amaj

& .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..œ œ œ#œ œ œ

Dmaj

œ œ œœ œ œ

Gmaj

œ œ œœ œ œ

Cmaj

œ œ œœb œ œ

Fmaj

©

Exercise #1 - INTRODUCE The 4 Plus Major Triad Technique: Repeat 431513

Exercise 2 - INTRODUCE The 4 Plus Major Triad Technique: Repeat 513431

LESSON 1B EXERCISESThe 4 Plus Major Triad Technique

(not available in preview)

This Concludes the preview of

Melodic Power

Purchase the complete course for 42 step-by-step lessons,

over 200 exercises, and 5 hours of video demos

Jazzadvice.com