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Harmony, Improvisation & Guided Practice

In-depth video courses designed to deepen your knowledge and build clarity and confidence.

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The Harmony Toolbox

Explore the seven essential building blocks of jazz harmony, giving you the tools to understand, internalise and confidently navigate jazz standards.

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Improvisation 101

Develop greater clarity in your improvising through practical tools and exercises designed to be immediately applied to your own solos.

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Guided Practice

Get to grips with jazz standards quicker through structured practice routines designed to build clarity and confidence.

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The Harmony Toolbox

Course Contents

01 Major II-V-Is

Video 1

Analysis of the theory behind major II-V-Is, plus a shortcut to work them out quickly in different keys.

Video 2

A walk-through and demonstration of the Major II-V-I exercise (based on the flat and sharp key cycles).

Resources

Voicing PDFs and exercise backing tracks.

Video 1

Analysis of the theory behind minor II-V-Is and a comparison of the chord qualities between major and minor II-V-Is.

Video 2

A walk-through and demonstration of the Minor II-V-I exercise (based on the whole tone scale).

Resources

Voicing PDFs and exercise backing tracks.

Video 1

Analysis of the theory behind secondary dominants, including their uses and functions (with examples from various jazz standards).

Video 2

A walk-through and demonstration of the Secondary Dominant exercise (based on Take The A Train).

Resources

Voicing PDFs and exercise backing tracks.

Video 1

Analysis of the theory behind I-VI-II-Vs and an exploration of three common variations;

Video 2

A walk-through and demonstration of the I-VI-II-V exercise, designed to build familiarity with the different variations.

Resources

Voicing PDFs and exercise backing tracks.

Video 1

Analysis of the theory behind IV minor, including three common uses and functions (with examples from various jazz standards).

Video 2

A walk-through and demonstration of the IV minor exercise which focuses on the backdoor cadence.

Resources

Voicing PDFs and exercise backing tracks.

Video 1

Analysis of the theory behind the Green Dolphin Street progression, including an exploration of the different starting points (with examples from various jazz standards).

Video 2

A walk-through and demonstration of the Green Dolphin Street exercise.

Resources

Voicing PDFs and exercise backing tracks.

Video 1

Analysis of the theory behind the tritone half-diminished, and an exploration of its uses and functions (with examples from various jazz standards).

Video 2

A walk-through and demonstration of the Tritone Half-Diminished spiral exercise.

Resources

Voicing PDFs and exercise backing tracks.

Improvisation 101

Course Contents

01 Chord Tones

Video 1

A walk-through of two chord tone fluency exercises, plus a demonstration of a chord tone solo;

Video 2

Solo and exercise examples on Take The A Train, There Will Never Be Another You and All The Things You Are.

Resources

Exercise PDFs and sample solo transcriptions.

Video 1

How to identify target notes; the order of importance; and creating tension through delaying and anticipating target notes.

Video 2

Solo examples on Take The A Train, There Will Never Be Another You and All The Things You Are.

Resources

Chord tone cheat sheets and sample solo transcriptions.

Video 1

A walk-through of the approach note, chromatic enclosure and double chromatic enclosure exercises.

Video 2

Solo examples on Take The A Train, There Will Never Be Another You and All The Things You Are.

Resources

Enclosure PDFs and sample solo transcriptions

Video 1

An explanation and demonstration of the Starting Points Workout and the Progressive Starting Points exercise;

Video 2

Exercise examples on Take The A Train, There Will Never Be Another You and All The Things You Are.

Resources

Exercise PDFs and sample solo transcriptions.

Video 1

An introduction to The Gateway Scales, and how to apply them to different harmonic situations;

Video 2

Exercise examples on Take The A Train, There Will Never Be Another You and All The Things You Are.

Resources

Gateway Scale Road Map PDFs and sample solo transcriptions.

Video 1

An introduction to the horizontal approach, plus demonstrations of three thematic development exercises;

Video 2

Exercise examples on Take The A Train, There Will Never Be Another You and All The Things You Are.

Resources

Sample solo PDFs

Video 1

An introduction to upper structures; an overview a jazz scales; and a walk-through of an upper structure exercise.

Resources

Exercise PDFs and sample solo transcriptions.

Video 2

Exercise examples on Take The A Train, There Will Never Be Another You and All The Things You Are.

Video 1

An introduction to the Rhythmic Gears exercise and the Triplet exercise.

Video 2

Solo examples on Take The A Train, There Will Never Be Another You and All The Things You Are.

Resources

Sample solo transcriptions.

Guided Practice

New videos posted monthly

01 Autumn Leaves

Video 1

I take you step-by-step through three improvisation exercises that I’ve designed specifically for Autumn Leaves:

  • Exercise 1 – The Gateway Scales
  • Exercise 2 – The Double Chromatic Enclosure
  • Exercise 3 – The Hank Mobley Lick

Resources

Exercise worksheets and transcriptions of all three demonstration solos.

Video 1

I take you step-by-step through three improvisation exercises that I’ve designed specifically for On Green Dolphin Street:

  • Exercise 1 – A Section Scale Workout
  • Exercise 2 – Charlie Parker ‘Au Privave’ lick
  • Exercise 3 – Chord Tone Harmonic Minor Drill

Resources

Exercise worksheets and transcriptions of all demonstration solos.