Beautiful Love is commonly played as both a ballad and as a medium to up-tempo tune. In this lesson we create an arrangement for both of these styles.

In this lesson we explore general improv concepts such as: arpeggios, approach patterns, enclosures and turns and chord tone soloing.

Before attempting to improvise over a jazz standard or lead sheet, it’s a good idea to identify which chord scales will work in the progression.

Cole Porter’s Easy to Love is a very accessible jazz standard for beginners as you will be familiar with most of the chords and progressions in the tune.

Joe Zawinul’s ‘Midnight Mood’ is a 24 measure A-B tune. The form is repetitive which creates the opportunity to and add some interesting chord substitutions.

Passing chords are temporary stepping stones between chords, adding variety and making your playing sound more interesting & dynamic.

Michel Legrand’s ‘What are you doing the rest of your life’ is a challenging tune to learn and contains some difficult-to-navigate chord changes.

Transcription is one of the most time effective ways to learn jazz and you should incorporate transcription into your daily practice routine.

The melodic minor is an exotic sounding scale and the modes of the melodic minor are used extensively in jazz improvisation.

We introduce the major modes, explaining what they are and where they come from. These 7 modes play a fundamental role in improvisation.