3 Exercises For Improvisation | Jazz Guitar
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- Welcome back to the studio everyone! This week, I'm gonna show you guys 3 exercises I think can help really improve your sense of melody when improvising!
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0:00 Intro
0:34 Exercise 1 Explanation
1:10 Exercise 1 Performance
2:26 Exercise 1 with Accents
3:27 Exercise 2 Explanation
3:56 Exercise 2 Performance
5:32 Exercise 3 Explanation
6:11 Exercise 3 Performance
6:40 Outro and Thank You's
🔍 Unlock the secrets of jazz improvisation on the guitar with this must-watch video! Whether you're a beginner or an experienced player looking to enhance your skills, these 3 essential exercises will elevate your jazz guitar game to new heights. 🚀
In this week's video, I've put together what I think are three essential exercises for improving your sense of melody on the guitar. We'll be using the arpeggios from the major scale in the key of C and linking them together in a variety of different ways.
In exercise one, we'll explore how we can use just the diatonic scale to connect all the different chords in the key. I'll also show you how we can use accents on different parts of the beat to vary our phrasing.
In exercise two, we'll expand on these concepts by incorporating some chromatic notes from Barry Harris' chromatic scale concept. We'll use these to practice resolving to each note of the scale.
Finally, we'll work on another aspect of melodic contour by using descending arpeggios, combined with ascending scale runs AND extra half steps in order to link all the chords in the key together.
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Thank you, David! I see the value of your exercises, they are totally practical and applicable to following chord changes and helping build lines.
You're welcome! Thanks for watching and commenting. Glad you found some value in the material!
Great exercises. Thank you!
You're welcome!
Wow, great lesson! Thanks a lot!
You're welcome!
Great exercises. I had a hard time following the functional harmonic explanation of the second exercise, which you say is focused on resolving from dominant to tonic and subdominant to dominant. You start on the B half diminished and end on an E. Do you regard that as resolving to the tonic from the dominant because youre going from a dominant function arpeggio to the root of the iii chord, which has tonic function? That seems to make sense, but the next arpeggio is C maj 7, and ends on a subdominant root (F). Is there something obvious I am overlooking?
So the b half diminished is functioning as dominant and resolving to a chord tone c major. The next one resolved to F which is the flat 7 of the dominant chord. It continues on in that fashion. Some of them are a but murky though, like the one that resolves to A.
OK so they're resolving to a chord tone of the tonic or dominant, as applicable, but not the *same* chord tone (e.g., root, 7th, etc). Got it. Thanks
@@adampecsek exactly! You can also apply them in other functions too. That's just the most obvious one that stuck out to me as I was writing it. Enjoy!
@dsg_studio thanks. I'm not new to guitar, but quite new to jazz guitar, and one of the things I've learned to work on is targeting chord tones to note the changes. Exercises like this - as well as plenty of your other instructional videos - are super helpful.
@adampecsek glad to have helped you out! Just trying to put stuff out that I wish I had seen when I was getting into jazz years ago.