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Scales for Improv on Major and Minor Chords

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Instructor
Jonny May
Workshop
Beginner
Intermediate
00:54:28

Learn a variety of scales to get started with improvisation over major and minor chords. After covering common progressions, you’ll discover the tips and tricks to improvise with confidence.

Course Objectives
  • Learn common chord progressions in major and minor keys.
  • Master the principles of soloing and creating interesting solo lines.
  • Discover how to use the major and pentatonic scale.
  • Explore the minor scale, extensions, clusters, and minor pentatonic.
Learning Focus
  • Chords
  • Improvisation
  • Scales
Featured Reviews

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Awesome lessons
Jonny and the team you're fantastic
Something to aspire to for a beginner like me
Jonny makes playing look so easy. As a beginner I find it's much easier watched than done. Jonny is really encouraging. I'll continue practicing and look forward to playing like this someday.
Great course
This is a super great course. I always wondering how pop pianist improvise, how they always play the right tones, how they pick the notes from the scale and never heard wrong, Jonny tought all here. Thanks Jonny!!
Challenging but Rewarding Course
This course helped show me the ingredients of improvisation using the major and minor scales. I think being successful in improv takes a lot of practice with simple examples, gradually building up as you discover what patterns sound well. Jonny gave helpful advice to practice improv over a single key and scale combination for a few days, which I'm looking forward to incorporating in my practice. I think some of the fast and dynamic improv examples Jonny played were inspiring, but probably a bit too advanced for a beginner/intermediate level course.
Easy to understand, but hard to apply
Powerful tips to get and practice! I learned a lot!

Course Lessons

1
Scales for Improv on Major & Minor Chords – Lesson 1
16:03

2 Progressions, Major Scale, Principles of Soloing

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2
Scales for Improv on Major & Minor Chords – Lesson 2
11:09

C Major 9 Scale, Cluster Positions, Pentatonic Scale

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3
Scales for Improv on Major & Minor Chords – Lesson 3
17:31

2 Minor Progressions, Natural Minor Scale, Minor 11, & Minor Pentatonic

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4
Scales for Improv on Major & Minor Chords – Lesson 4
9:45

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Featured Reviews

View PWJ member reviews of this course!

Awesome lessons
Jonny and the team you're fantastic
Something to aspire to for a beginner like me
Jonny makes playing look so easy. As a beginner I find it's much easier watched than done. Jonny is really encouraging. I'll continue practicing and look forward to playing like this someday.
Great course
This is a super great course. I always wondering how pop pianist improvise, how they always play the right tones, how they pick the notes from the scale and never heard wrong, Jonny tought all here. Thanks Jonny!!
Challenging but Rewarding Course
This course helped show me the ingredients of improvisation using the major and minor scales. I think being successful in improv takes a lot of practice with simple examples, gradually building up as you discover what patterns sound well. Jonny gave helpful advice to practice improv over a single key and scale combination for a few days, which I'm looking forward to incorporating in my practice. I think some of the fast and dynamic improv examples Jonny played were inspiring, but probably a bit too advanced for a beginner/intermediate level course.
Easy to understand, but hard to apply
Powerful tips to get and practice! I learned a lot!
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