Sometimes, improvising over a track can be a lot more effective with a few prepared licks...

This concept can serve to you as a guide to make your own jazz work if you just began to delve in jazz waters. Includes right hand dexterity, warming up for jazz improvisations, ear developing, scales and arpeggios of jazzy chords, economy and alternate picking styles.

Will help you create better, more coherent improvisations using the end of your licks to start new ones.

We'll continue exploring the different modes. As you know this training is very important for singers and also for composing and do improvisations.

Let's discuss major triads. Playing with interval triads will allow you to build melodic improvisations easily.Make sure you memorize the different positions exposed in the licks and go from there.

Playing outside of the original key can be used to add tension and interest to your improvisations. David Wallimann shows us how using C Dorian. This technique can be used in any style of music.

The Bebop Dominant Scale is basically a Mixolydian mode with an extra note : a natural 7th. Used in Jazz of course, but also in Jazz Fusion, to add interesting colors to your improvisations.