VOLUME 1 CONTENTS

MODULE #1

  • Fundamentals for the development of improvisational skills in the Jazz idiom.
  • How a Tonality is Established.
  • Understanding the Blues Tonality. 
  • The 7 Fingering Models for every Scale & Arpeggio family. 
  • All about Vertical & Horizontal Scale & Arpeggio Relationships. 
  • How to use the Fingering Cycles. 
  • How to use Guide Tones, Voice Leading and Melodic Contour to smoothly transition through any set of chord changes when improvising. 
  • How to properly play Swing 8th notes.
  • How to Read and Write Intervallic Script
  • …plus training videos, audio downloads & detailed exercises to help you apply all the information in your playing!

MODULE #2

  • How to use Approach Tones 
  • How to differentiate Harmonic vs. Non-Harmonic Tones 
  • The Anatomy of A Bebop Line 
  • How to Use Diatonic & Chromatic Passing Tones 
  • How to Use Diatonic & Chromatic Neighboring Tones
  • Bebop Calisthenics #1 
  • 5 Jazz Etudes in Regular Notation, Tab & Intervallic Script 
  • How to write your own Jazz Etude to program new vocabulary 
  • Theory Quiz #1 
  • Guided improvisation assignments applying the melodic concepts and rhythms introduced
  • Understanding how to Read, Write & Play different Syncopated Rhythms
  • …plus training videos, audio downloads & detailed exercises to help you apply all the information in your playing!

MODULE #3

  • Modal Ambiguity and How To Avoid It 
  • How To Use Harmonic Anticipations
  • How to Use Unprepared Approaches 
  • How to Use 2 Note Enclosures 
  • Bebop Calisthenics #2 using Unprepared Approaches
  • Bebop Calisthenics #3 using 2 Note Enclosures 
  • 3 Jazz Etudes in Regular Notation, Tab & Intervallic Script 
  • Theory Quiz #2 
  • Guided improvisation assignments applying the new melodic concepts and rhythms introduced
  • …plus training videos, audio downloads & detailed exercises to help you apply all the information in your playing!

MODULE #4

  •  Introducing Upper Extensions and How to Use Them Effectively
  • Jazz Etudes Opus #9 & 10 – featuring Upper Extensions (variations 1& 2) 
  • Theory Quiz #3
  • Example of Writing an Etude using Rhythm Template #7
  • …plus training videos, audio downloads & detailed exercises to help you apply all the information in your playing!

MODULE #5

  • Introduction to Modal Interchange 
  • Major II-V-I Cadences 
  • How To Use The IV-7 Chord 
  • Introduction To Double Chromatic Approaches 
  • Bebop Calisthenics #4 Arpeggios with Double Chromatic Approaches 
  • Jazz Etudes Opus #11, 12 & 13 – featuring Double Chromatic Approaches (variations 1, 2 & 3) 
  • Theory Quiz #4
  • Example of Writing an Etude using Rhythm Template #9
  • …plus training videos, audio downloads & detailed exercises to help you apply all the information in your playing!

MODULE #6

  • Introduction to 3 Note Enclosures 
  • Bebop Calisthenics #5 Arpeggios with 3 Note Enclosures 
  • How Secondary Dominants Function
  • Introduction To The V7 Altered Chord & Modal Superimposition 
  • Jazz Etudes Opus #14, 15 & 16 – featuring Altered Dominants & 3 Note Enclosures (variations 1, 2 & 3)
  • Theory Quiz #5 
  • Example of Writing an Etude using Rhythm Template #11
  • …plus training videos, audio downloads & detailed exercises to help you apply all the new information in your playing!

MODULE #7

  • Introduction to 4 Note Enclosures 
  • Minor Blues 
  • Minor II-V-I
  • Cadences using the Locrian, Super Locrian and Aeolean Modes 
  • Jazz Etudes Opus #17, 18 & 19 – featuring 3 Note Enclosures (variations 1, 2 & 3) 
  • Theory Quiz #6 
  • Example of Writing an Etude using Rhythm Template #13
  • …plus training videos, audio downloads & detailed exercises to help you apply all the new information in your playing!

MODULE #8

  •  Introduction to New Fingering Models that will enable you to link together the entire fretboard within any tonality 
  • Jazz Etudes Opus #20, 21, 22 & 23 – featuring New Fingering Models (variations 1, 2 ,3 & 4) 
  • Bebop Calisthenics #7 using various approach tones over Locrian & Super Locrian based arpeggios
  • Dissecting The Masters #1
  • …plus training videos, audio downloads & detailed exercises to help you apply all the new information in your playing!

MODULE #9

  • How to use Overlapping Fingering Patterns to shift registers 
  • Jazz Etudes Opus #20, 21, 22 & 23 – Blues featuring New Fingering Models (variations 1, 2 ,3 & 4) 
  • Harmonic Analysis of Bird Blues 
  • Secondary II-V Cadences, Dominant Chains, Substitute Dominants & Interpolated II minor chords 
  • Jazz Etudes Opus #24, 25, 26 & 27 – Bird Blues… -Putting it All Together! (variations 1, 2 ,3 & 4) 
  • Quiz #7
  • Dissecting The Masters #2
  • …plus training videos, audio downloads & detailed exercises to help you apply all the new information in your playing!

I’m Ready To Take My Playing To The Next Level!

Enroll Me!