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Line Building Blocks Exercise

Here is one chorus of Just In Time, unaccompanied.

It's best if you transcribe it, then use my pdf to check it.

Regardless of how you learn the solo, you should memorize it. Then play it for a few days and then start moving it around the keys.

This is really the stuff where you can learn.
Start working on your ears and transcribe. Spend time with the solo and think about the chords in each key. You have to see the notes in the context they are in. 9s, b5s, 13s, etc. And then build up vocabulary through your ears.

Hello Everyone!

I had some time so I decided to make a couple of audio lessons on triads, which have been the focus of my practicing lately! After years of practicing seventh chords, 9th chords, 11th chords, and 13th chords, I've come to appreciate what triads can do.

Hey everyone,

I'm starting a new series on solo vibes arranging, where in the first part, I'll give an arrangement in the form of sheet music, and in the second part, I'll walk through it, note by note, explaining why and how I'm picking voicings, textures, etc. I hope this gives everyone ideas on arranging tunes on their own, as well as giving a tangible arrangement to play on gigs or for practice.

As this is the second part on "Easy to Love," I'll be posting an explanation video.

Hey everyone!

I’ve got some exciting lessons for the next few months, starting with this series on diminished voicings. These three lessons will really go in depth with how you can creatively voice diminished chords, and how you can use the same shapes on non-diminished chords. Do you know the diminished major substitution? The dominant diminished substitution? The four main alterations of a diminished chord? How to use diminished shapes to play “out?” These lessons will go through all of this with a practical mindset, giving you tangible things to work on.

Hey everyone,

Here's part two in the little diminished lesson series. In this lesson, I'll show you how to better think of flat 3 diminished chords to give you more melodic material.

Melodic Ideas for Comping

A crazy mental exercise in improvisation! This will help your dampening skills as well as your ears and your overall understanding of the instrument.