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• New Ideas for the Blues 🎼

  View Lesson | March 20, 2020 Category: Improv Applications Key Concepts: Blues, Phrasing

• Let's Practice Improvising 🎼

  View Lesson | March 13, 2020 Category: Improv Applications Key Concepts: Lines Tune: All The Things You Are

• Doxy

  View Lesson | February 3, 2019  Category: Standards Key Concepts: Hard Bop, Rhythm

• Swinging in Three

  View Lesson Part 1 | July 7, 2019 View Lesson Part 2 | July 14, 2019 Tune: Someday My Prince Will Come Category: Theory, Technique, and Voicings Key Concepts: Playing in Three, Improv Applications

• Focus on Improv Lines

  View Lesson Category: Improv Applications Key Concepts: Rhythm,  Tune: Autumn Leaves Date: April 14, 2019

• Shapes for Melodic Improv Ideas

  View Lesson | November 13, 2016 Category: Improv Applications Key Concepts: Lines

• Modal Improv: One Finger Snap

  View Lesson | July 17, 2016 Category: Improv Applications Key Concepts: Time, Melody

• Improv Concept with 10ths 🎼

  View Lesson | December 31, 2021 Category: Improv Applications Key Concepts:Arpeggios, Lines, Rhythm Tune: There Is No Greater Love

• 6 Levels of Improv Ideas 🎼

  View Lesson | February 26, 2021 Category: Advanced Improv Applications Key Concepts: Lines, Arpeggios, Double Time Tune: On Green Dolphin Street

• Elements of Improv - Part 1: Using 4ths 🎼

  View Lesson | November 20, 2011 Category: Improv Applications Key Concepts: Lines Tune: There Is No Greater Love

• Elements of Improv - Part 2: Using Triads 🎼

  View Lesson | December 4, 2011 Category: Improv Applications Key Concepts: Lines Tune: Autumn Leaves

• Overlooked Tips of the Trade 🎼

  View Lesson | August 4, 2019 Category: Improv Applications

• Ideas for Creative Improvising

  View Lesson | August 9, 2019 Category: Improv Applications Key Concepts: Theory

• Improvising Over Chord Changes 🎼

  View Lesson | August 14, 2016 Category: Improv Applications Key Concepts: Melody, Lines Tune: But Not For Me

• Scale Choices 🎼

  View Lesson | November 8, 2015 Category: Improv Applications Key Concepts: Scales

• Piano Playing with the Rhythm Section

  View Lesson | January 8, 2017 Category: Improv Applications Key Concepts: Trio

• Restrictive Melodic Practice

  View Lesson | July 26, 2015 Category: Improv Applications Key Concepts: Practice

• Two-Handed Solo Lines

  View Lesson | July 19, 2015 Category: Improv Applications Key Concepts: Lines

• Navigating Minor 2-5-1's

  View Lesson | September 23, 2014 Category: Improv Applications Key Concepts: Scales

• Melodic Approaches 🎼

  View Lesson | July 27, 2014 Category: Improv Applications Key Concepts: Lines

• Minor Blues Concepts

  View Lesson | May 18, 2013 Category: Improv Applications Key Concepts: Blues

• Triads

  View Lesson | March 13, 2013 Category: Improv Applications Key Concepts: Solo

• Accompanying Horn Players 🎼

  View Lesson | August 23, 2018 Category: Improv Applications Key Concepts: Duo

• Freeform Introductions 🎼

  View Lesson | December 16, 2019 Category: Improv Applications Key Concepts: Intros, Ballads

• How to Practice Phrasing & Swing

  View Lesson | March 20, 2016 Category: Improv Applications Key Concepts: Feel, Practice

• Melody Contour in Bebop

  View Lesson | November 3, 2015 Category: Improv Applications Key Concepts: Lines, Bebop

• Harmonic Explorations for Melodic Ideas 🎼

  View Lesson | October 5, 2014 Category: Improv Applications Key Concepts: Solo, Lines

• Bass Lines (Revisited)

  View Lesson | July 13, 2014 Category: Improv Applications Key Concepts: Lines, Blues

• Combining Blues & Bebop Vocab 🎼

  View Lesson | October 12, 2013 Category: Improv Applications Key Concepts: Bebop, Blues

• Left Hand Melodic Movement

  View Lesson | May 5, 2013 Category: Improv Applications Key Concepts: Left Hand

• Playing Over Barlines

  View Lesson | February 24, 2013 Category: Improv Applications Key Concepts: Lines, Solo

• All About Triplets

  View Lesson | August 16, 2019 Category: Improv Applications Key Concepts: Rhythm, Scales

• Playing over II-V-I Progressions

  View Lesson | May 27, 2012 Category: Improv Applications Key Concepts: Lines, Rhythm

• Dolphin Dance Solo

  View Lesson Category: Improv Applications Key Concepts: Theory, Standards Date: April 21, 2019

• Melodic Line Transposition Work-Out

  View Lesson | October 28, 2012 Category: Improv Applications Key Concepts: Lines, Transposition

• In a Mellow Tone 🎼

  View Lesson | February 10, 2023 Category: Improv Applications Key Concepts:Scales, Practice, Phrasing

• Rhythm Changes: Solo Shedding - Part 2 🎼

  View Lesson | June 21, 2015 Category: Improv Applications Key Concepts: Solo, Rhythm Changes

• All About Tri-tone Substitutions

  View Lesson | October 19, 2014 Category: Theory, Improv Applications Key Concepts: Voice Leading

• Playing with Drummers

  View Lesson | May 3, 2015 Category: Improv Applications Key Concepts: Blues, Space, Comping

• Playing Over Chords

  View Lesson | February 23, 2014 Category: Improv Applications Key Concepts: Lines, Practice, Solo

• Rhythm Changes (Revisited)

  View Lesson | December 28, 2013 Category: Improv Applications Key Concepts: Rhythm Changes, Solo

• Fun with F Blues

  View Lesson | November 17, 2013 Category: Improv Applications Key Concepts: Left Hand, Blues

• Rhythm Changes Over B Flat

  View Lesson | May 11, 2014 Category: Improv Applications Key Concepts: Rhythm Changes, Form

• Monk's Dream

  View Lesson | February 4, 2018 Category: Modern Jazz Compositions Key Concepts: AABA, Improv

• Advanced Rhythm Changes Applications 🎼

  View Lesson | December 6, 2019 Category: Improv Applications Key Concepts: Rhythm Changes, Lines

• JPM Guided Practice Session (feat. Adam Maness)

  View Lesson | October 22, 2021 Category: Improv Applications Key Concepts: Blocking, GPS, Lines

• Blues for D. P. 🎼

  View Lesson | February 18, 2021 Category: Improv Applications Key Concepts: Melody, Blues, Phrasing,

• Peter Martin Solo Analysis 🎼

  View Lesson | January 14, 2022 Category: Improv Applications Key Concepts: Practice, Rhythm, Phrasing

• Building Solos – “In Walked Bud” 🎼

  View Lesson | August 25, 2013 Category: Improv Applications: Key Concepts: Form, Solo, Space

• Miles Davis Solo Break Down 🎼

  View Lesson | September 2, 2022 Category: Improv Applications Key Concepts: Practice, Rhythm, Phrasing