Improvisation

Learn to improvise with the exotic Phrygian Dominant Scale, the most hauntingly beautiful jazz scale. Discover it's origin and how it's used.

Discover a fun improv practice game for expanding your jazz vocabulary with original 2-5-1 jazz licks using 3 different dominant scales.

Discover a fun improv practice game for expanding your jazz vocabulary with original 2-5-1 jazz licks using 3 different dominant scales.

This comprehensive course covers dominant block chords. We’ll learn these chords with fun exercises in each key, and apply them to short songs in a bossa, swing, ballad, and funk style.

Block Chord Exercise (Ab, Db, Gb)

"Locked Out" (Funk)

"Dominant Dominic" (Swing)

Block Chord Exercise (F, Bb, Eb)

Definition & Positions

Block Chord Exercise (D, G, C)

"Blocked, Not Broken" (Ballad)

Block Chord Exercise (B, E, A)

"Right-Hand Dominant" (Bossa)

This comprehensive course covers minor block chords. We’ll learn these chords with fun exercises in each key, and apply them to short songs in a bossa, swing, ballad, and funk style.

"The Position is Closed" (Swing)

"Minor Blockage" (Funk)

Block Chord Exercise (Am, Dm, Gm)

"Check, Mate!" (Bossa)

Block Chord Exercise (F#m, Bm, Em)

Block Chord Exercise (Ebm, Abm, Dbm)

"Fill Up More" (Ballad)