You practice improvising jazz solos over progressions and spend hours or days learning to solo over songs. One thing that we mostly leave almost random is when do we know it. How do you answer if you know a song or a chord progression? Having a way of judging how well you know a song is very important but also difficult to really describe.
In this video, I am going over 4 exercises that I use and that my students use to learn chord progressions. Two are technical and two are more about being musical and working on playing what you hear.
I find that learning Songs and Chord Progressions is extremely important for learning jazz or jazz guitar, so if you have any thoughts on when you know a progression or exercises that are useful then please leave a comment.
Content:
0:00 Intro – When Do You Know A Chord Progression?
0:37 4 Exercises – Two Technical, Two Musical – Know what there is and Play What You Hear
1:15 The Turnaround – Scales
1:52 #1 Only Using The Arpeggios
2:25 Basic Technical Exercise
2:45 Solo only using Basic Chord Tones and Arpeggios
3:27 #2 Never Ending Scale Exercise
4:24 The Scale version
4:51 Using Diatonic Arpeggios instead of the Scale
5:11 The Diatonic Triad version
5:52 #3 Rubato Solo from chord to chord
6:24 The Exercise and the Goal
7:01 Giving you time to listen to what you hear in your solo
7:36 #4 Motif Exercises
8:16 Learn from Wes Montgomery
8:42 It is a great measure of how free you are on a progression
9:04 Hearing motifs and then playing them.
9:27 What Exercises do you find very useful? Leave a comment!
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Improvise using Target Notes
One of the core ideas that I used when I learned how to improvise over chord changes was using target notes. This method took me from working on Rhythm Changes to Giant Steps. It is such a strong concept that it will help you deal with any progression.
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