The secret to jazz vocabulary (no bullsh*t)
The secret to jazz vocabulary (no bullsh*t)
Learn jazz vocabulary the way jazz was learned in the early days: by teaching yourself rhythmic phrases. By learning jazz rhythms you will automatically phrase your lines in natural ways.
It this PDF lesson you will also learn about articulating the rhythms in a way that will work itself into your playing so that you will be playing authentic sounding improvised jazz solos. Just like all of our jazz heroes from the past that helped shape the iconic sounds of jazz as we know it today, this is the missing ingredient not enough people talk about.
This lesson goes deeper than the video and includes:
- Five rhythm phrases to internalize
- Five rhythmic phrases that have notes to applied to them that Adam has created for you to get you started
- Three different methods to work phrases into your solos
- Chord changes to All The Things You Are so that you can write and work out using the phrases in the song so that you are able to improvise in this way
- Blank measures to write your own phrases
- Applying good chord tone timing practices in your lines
- Eight ways to approach chord tones in your lines
- All the chord tones listed for every chord in All The Things You Are
- Links to related videos that will help you understand in more depth how to create jazz lines by way of note choices
If you have trouble with phrasing, rhythms, note choices, and sounding focused in your improvisations, this is the perfect lesson for you.
This is the PDF lesson that accompanies the video The secret to jazz vocabulary (no bullsh*t)