Jazz Improvisation Exercises

Master these 10 Jazz and Blues licks to use them in your songs.

Learn how to use cells, sequences and rhythmic variations to improve your improvising.

In this lesson I will show you some of the techniques I use to create improvisation lines over a steady bassline. We will be using my lesson on Herbie Hancock’s Cantaloupe Island to create our improvisation.

In this lesson I’ll show you how to create different improvisation lines using a variety of techniques like chord tones and approaches. These techniques work over ANY kind of song or style.

Improvisation Over Standards in 5 steps teaches you the 5 steps that are critical for students to learn in order to effectively improvise over jazz standards and other songs. You can build upon these 5 steps to create more in-depth arrangements. We will use the song "For Heaven's Sake" as an example.

Quartals give your improvisation a modern sound.