
Welcome to my Beginning Jazz Improvisation Course! I'll be discussing what you will expect from this course during the course and what you should be capable of upon completion.
The student will learn to play through the Cycle of Fifths first with root notes, eventually adding notes to play the first five notes of every scale, and the major triad. Play-along tracks and PDFs are provided for practice.
Explore improvisation by playing the one chord for one bar and reducing rhythm to eighth notes, building melodic skills and listening through practice and imitation.
How To Compose Your Own Simple Blues Tunes (Part I)
With very little melodic material and very basic harmonic knowledge
As I mentioned at the beginning of this course, I see improvisation as a type of “spontaneous composition”, and I find it useful to understand, at least in a basic way, how a composer goes about composing music.
Learning how to compose simple melodies and tunes are essential to learning how to improvise. It takes not only understanding chord structures and song forms, but an understanding of how to create melodies, how to manipulate and transform melodies, and how to keep continuity and coherency in a musical composition.
Now, this may all sound like a lot to do, and it is, but if you learn to listen and follow your instincts, you’ll be able to conquer all of these without much difficulty.
In the first part of this course, we dealt with composing a simple blues tune using a simple motif or melodic phrase and transposing it to fit the chords of the basic blues form.
In this part we will be learning how to “modulate” a motif to fit the following chords. That means instead of transposing the motif, we will be adjusting the notes to the nearest member of the following chord.
In this lecture, we are learning about the basic blues scale. A "fool-proof" scale to play over a blues.
In this lecture, we are learning about another blues scale to play, but with this one you'll have to be more careful using it. It is worth the try!
Here we will go through our patterns in the minor scale version and get our ears accustomed to that sound.
Welcome to the "Beginning Jazz Improvisation" course, where you'll discover how to improvise jazz with confidence. In this course, you'll learn the fundamentals of jazz improvisation, including how to recognize and form basic chord structures, as well as how to improvise over them. You'll also learn how to compose your own "blues" compositions using very little material.
Unlike other jazz improvisation courses that bombard learners with complex music theory and scales, this course takes a step-by-step approach to help you understand the basics. We'll begin by breaking down the concepts into bite-sized chunks that you can easily comprehend, and we'll gradually build your skills and knowledge as you progress through the course.
You won't need any prior knowledge to get started with this course. We've designed it in a way that anyone can follow along, regardless of their level of experience. Whether you're a complete beginner or have some knowledge of jazz improvisation, this course will help you build a solid foundation.
We understand that starting out with jazz improvisation can be intimidating, which is why we've designed this course to be approachable and easy to understand. We believe that anyone can learn to improvise jazz, and we want to help you unlock your full potential.
To make your learning journey even more enjoyable, we've included PDF exercises and MP3 recordings in each lesson. This will give you the opportunity to practice what you've learned and get feedback on your progress.
By the end of this course, you'll have a strong foundation in jazz improvisation, and you'll be well on your way to confidently tackling jazz standards. Join this course today and discover how easy it is to start learning how to improvise jazz. We can't wait to see you inside!