Course Description

Module #1 - Triads and Arpeggios:
The skills you MUST have to freely improvise and a checklist for your to follow that'll make sure you know how to master these skills over songs.


Module #2: The Anatomy of Melody part1:
The KING of melodic improvisation - your SENTENCES.


Module #3: - Improvisation within a Sequence of Chord Shapes:
How to build sentences that connect a sequence of chords rather than playing on a single chord each time. What you'll learn here is one of the best gold nuggets you can get from Django's playing.


Modul #4: The Anatomy of Melody part2, The Blueprint:
In this module you'll learn how to follow some proven formulas for creating melodic improvisation that work every single time!

Course curriculum

    1. 1.1 Intoduction

    2. 1.2 Skills #1_Major and Minor Triads in 12 Keys

    3. 1.3 Triads over dim7 and half dim7 Chords (Example over Swing Gitane)

    4. 1.4 Form Mastery #1_ Accompaniment with Triads

    5. 1.5 Form Mastery #2_Simple Melodies

    6. 1.6 Form Mastery #3_ Arpeggio Exercises (Chord Scales)

    7. 1.7 Example over After You've Gone

    8. 1.8 Chord Scales ex. #2- Arpeggios from the Highest String (After You've Gone)

    9. 1.9 Chord Scales Ex.#3 over Minor Swing

    10. 1.10 Simple Improvisation with Arpeggios

    11. 1.11 Half-Tone Approach (HTA) over Triads

    12. 1.12 Enclosures (and After Youv'e Gone)

    13. 1.13 HTA and Enclosures with Arpeggios

    14. 1.14 How to Practice your Skills

    15. Module #1 Summary PDF

    16. Arpeggios Index

    1. 2.1 Building Awareness of Your Sentences

    2. 2.2 Sentences before, on and after the Beat

    3. 2.3 Three Ways to Play BEFORE the Beat

    4. 2.4 Playing ON the Beat

    5. 2.5 What are Motifs

    6. 2.6 Building Awareness of Your Motifs

    7. 2.7 How to Come up with Motifs - examples over Coquette and Minor Swing)

    8. Module #2 Summary PDF

    1. 3.1 Maj6 and Maj7 Shapes

    2. 3.2 Dim7 and Dom7 Shapes

    3. 3.3 II-V-I Example from Montagne Sainte Genevieve

    4. 3.4 Improvising over Django's II-V-I Shapes

    5. 3.5 The Christophe example from Django's Tiger

    6. 3.6 Improvisation over Django's Christophe

    7. 3.7 Example from Django's After You've Gone

    8. Module #3 Summary PDF

    1. 4.1 I The Blueprint - I Can't Give You and Pennies from Heaven

    2. 4.2 Student Reviews

    3. 4.3 Getting Ideas for Melodies from other Songs

    4. 4.4 Adding the dim7

    5. 4.5 Applying Blueprints over Different Songs

    6. 4.6 Blueprint- Pennies From Heaven, 2nd part

    7. 4.7 The Blueprint Path and Why I Started Practicing with Blueprints

About this course

  • $199.00
  • 39 lessons
  • 3 hours of video content