JAZZ LESSON VIDEOS

If you've ever wanted to learn jazz, you've probably run into the same problem a lot of musicians face. It's hard to know where to start. There are so many concepts involved: scales, chords, language, phrasing, time feel, transcription, improvisation. And when you start digging into lessons online or different books, it can feel like you're getting pieces of the puzzle without a clear path that connects everything together. A lot of players end up jumping between random ideas

Today we're going to be looking at one of the most important ingredients in jazz improvisation, which is approach notes and enclosures. These are devices that can help connect your lines, create harmonically interesting ideas, and make your improvisation sound more like the players we all love listening to—like John Coltrane and Charlie Parker. So we're going to tackle five essential ways to implement them into your own improvisation. Everything we’re going to talk about tod

Today we’re going to talk about something that doesn't get discussed enough in jazz education—why playing convincingly in major keys is one of the hardest things to do. Most jazz standards are in major keys. When you look at the Great American Songbook, so many tunes resolve to a major tonic chord, and the overall tonal center is major. And yet, for most players, major key improvisation is where things start to feel exposed. Many players feel more comfortable in minor and dom

It’s easy to say that you understand altered harmony, but oftentimes people will be less certain about how to use it. People often do not understand how and when to use this in the context of playing a standard or playing with other musicians. Everything we're about to talk about today comes from Luther’s resource with Jazz Lesson Videos, 30 Day Jazz Harmony Chops, which has a simple day by day plan, where every session focuses on three things: a technical warm up, a harmoni