Scales to CHORD CHANGES in 6 simple exercises for jazz beginners

Teach and learn how to progress from scales & key centres towards chord changes. Beginner jazz improvisation and intermediate jazz improvisation students alike, often find this transition challenging. In this video I take you through six logical steps plus background explanation to demonstrate a helpful and effective approach. By the end your students (or you) should be able to outline 2-5-1 chord changes in single and multiple minor keys.
Of course, you would need to repeat the exercises a number of times to help them sink in. It takes time and practice but is not too hard and really can sound musical at each step.
In this video I play examples on guitar, but the technique is for all instruments. This method will still help you if you teach or play saxophone, piano, trumpet, trombone, clarinet, bass, or any other melodic instrument.
Here's a blog post about helping students make the step up from scales to chord changes:
jazzworkshopau...
I suggest watching my other videos about key centre improvising first:
👉 Key centres • A great way to turboch...
👉 escaping from the blues scale rut • Escape from the blues ...
👉 and minor keys part 1: • Teach & learn how to p...
Remember: learning jazz is based on skills, techniques, knowledge, and effort but not magic. Happy teaching & learning!
My jazz education blog:
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My jazz music school in Sydney, Australia, Jazz Workshop Australia:
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[@TeachingJazz]

Series of vieos on key centre improvising & making it better for beginners: th-cam.com/play/PL7rpRGIFiyXQdQ5z5gXsf2kWqO5Zr3KSf.html

[@FullMetalDMZ]

Wow, thank you! By far the best and easiest video to follow on this topic!

[@TeachingJazz]

My pleasure, and thank you too.

[@ojacobsen3727]

hey these vids are so good! Lots of technique and theory on youtube, but I really appreciate your focus on being able to play freely from the beginning and building on it. Often the gap between play and theory is quite wide. Makes sense to me that in learning jazz one should get into simple improvisation as soon as possible. Thanks!

[@TeachingJazz]

Thanks so much, your feedback means a lot. Yes, I agree, it is important to be able to actualy play creatively from the start and play stuff that actually sounds like...jazz, or whatever the student is aiming for.

[@joepalooka2145]

Another excellent video, this is really appreciated.

[@patrickblay7684]

Just Fantastic teaching .you make us do an immense long jump towards comprehension.
Thank you so much.

[@TeachingJazz]

Glad to hear that!

[@lesteracree1010]

Marvelous! Please don't stop.

[@micheldindaine8403]

if I could, I would give you 100 thumbs up for that vid.
this is so well explained, I would have never thouht of separate rhe scale like this and talk about sounding good !!.
what I love i that it is very visual with harmonic explanation (but not to much), and the system sounds good immediately.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH

[@TeachingJazz]

Wow, thanks so much for the compliment and your detailed feedback too! I'm pleased you like the approach. I've definitely found it helpful for myself as well as my students.

[@johannes8383]

Great video.
Maybe you want to change the typo in minute 1:11 (demonsrate → demonstrate) 😀

[@TeachingJazz]

Glad you liked it and thanks for letting me know. Wish you'd been there when I proofed it! I'll try to fix it.

[@icemanlee666]

Brilliant, really liking your content does the same apply with major 251’s and the major bebop scale

[@TeachingJazz]

Yes, it works the same way with major bebop scale, although to me it doesn't sound quite as good. But yes and it would also help build the same kinds of skills and time-awareness. Also, very glad to hear you're enjoying my content, thank you.

[@icemanlee666]

@@TeachingJazz that’s great thanks for that ;)

[@alemakhoul4899]

very nice

[@TeachingJazz]

Thank you very much.

[@leopark126]

Thank you so much for you help

[@YouriBotterman]

I wish they explained me this when I was starting studying jazz. Now things are getting so clearer. Thank you so much

[@andrewkratz226]

Love your content

[@TeachingJazz]

Thanks very much! Please let others know, if you can.

[@warrenallsopp]

What a great video lesson for jazz guitar beginners like me. Thoroughly recommended.

[@TeachingJazz]

Thanks for your kind words!

[@francinebacone1455]

I feel like I'm close to having a breakthrough with this. Thank you!

[@TeachingJazz]

Hi, that's terrific, I'm glad to hear it, and thanks. Keep at it and you'll get your breakthrough and more. LEt me know how you go.

[@lesteracree1010]

Oh no...did you stop? Disappointed heaps lol

[@TeachingJazz]

I didn't stop, lol. Heaps of videos coming.

[@bozakarlin9034]

Great lesson, thanks.

[@TeachingJazz]

My pleasure, and thanks for taking time to let me know. It's based on how I wish someone had taught me when I was at school. Instead, it was all "If it's not Beethoven or one of his crowd then it s***s, and here are 1000 laws you must memorise", that plus loads of obscure jargon.

[@samsonolasunkanmi4814]

Genius

[@TeachingJazz]

Thanks very much!

[@cat3rpill3r]

This is the best explanation of bebop harmony at a beginner level I've seen. It's a great supplement to all the Barry Harris improvisation material floating around. Heaps of stuff just clicked.

[@TeachingJazz]

Wow, thanks! Yes, I've found it a very useful approach too.