Melodic Improvisation

1.1 Intoduction

1.2 Skills #1_Major and Minor Triads in 12 Keys

1.3 Triads over dim7 and half dim7 Chords (Example over Swing Gitane)

1.4 Form Mastery #1_ Accompaniment with Triads

1.5 Form Mastery #2_Simple Melodies

1.6 Form Mastery #3_ Arpeggio Exercises (Chord Scales)

1.7 Example over After You've Gone

1.8 Chord Scales ex. #2- Arpeggios from the Highest String (After You've Gone)

1.9 Chord Scales Ex.#3 over Minor Swing

1.10 Simple Improvisation with Arpeggios

1.11 Half-Tone Approach (HTA) over Triads

1.12 Enclosures (and After Youv'e Gone)

1.13 HTA and Enclosures with Arpeggios

1.14 How to Practice your Skills

Module #1 Summary PDF

Arpeggios Index

2.1 Building Awareness of Your Sentences

2.2 Sentences before, on and after the Beat

2.3 Three Ways to Play BEFORE the Beat

2.4 Playing ON the Beat

2.5 What are Motifs

2.6 Building Awareness of Your Motifs

2.7 How to Come up with Motifs - examples over Coquette and Minor Swing)

Module #2 Summary PDF

3.1 Maj6 and Maj7 Shapes

3.2 Dim7 and Dom7 Shapes

3.3 II-V-I Example from Montagne Sainte Genevieve

3.4 Improvising over Django's II-V-I Shapes

3.5 The Christophe example from Django's Tiger

3.6 Improvisation over Django's Christophe

3.7 Example from Django's After You've Gone

Module #3 Summary PDF

4.1 I The Blueprint - I Can't Give You and Pennies from Heaven

4.2 Student Reviews

4.3 Getting Ideas for Melodies from other Songs

4.4 Adding the dim7

4.5 Applying Blueprints over Different Songs

4.6 Blueprint- Pennies From Heaven, 2nd part

4.7 The Blueprint Path and Why I Started Practicing with Blueprints