The RIGHT Way to Improvise with CHORD TONES for Better Solos

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[JohnHorneGuitar]

Just purchased. I love this approach and is in fact how I finally started to teach myself to make the changes after years of people telling me to play scales. Obviously, I love more advanced concepts too but as you point out if you can't make clear musical statements with the chord tones, none of the rest adds much to the music. Looking forward to working through the etudes!

[Jamsville]

Welcome back! Btw this editing is insane!

[Alekseyyyyyy]

As a non-jazz intermediate guitar player I am finding these lessons extremely useful. Thank you!

[FacePomagranate]

That "cringe" note at the start was pretty awesome, not going to lie.

[franb]

I mean, to call ourselves a self-taught in these days, one mustn't watch to much of YouTube, cause if so, you better say you are formed at the Youtube Academy. Learning from people like Rick Beato, Nahre Sol, David Bruce, and our great Jeff Schneider, just to name a very few, is on another level in terms of free, available and valuable education. It's in a stellar another level, imo.

[HerroVincey]

This is knowledge EVERY musician needs to learn. Solid lesson Jeff, 15 minutes has provided foundation for a VAST amount of material to study and work on.

[gdn]

Lines that rhyme - awesome concept, thank you!!!

[alcofribasnasier]

The most useful video you ever can find on the net whatever the instrument or the style you play

[NeilKohlen]

I am a guitarist and since guitarist are somehow cursed with playing 3-note per strings scale and pentatonic, I have to admit that this is by far the best lesson on how to improvise. The rhythms arent too crazy in the given example and everything is very understable! Thanks Jeff!

[orlandomcallister]

I have played flute for over 35 years and was never taught your approach. It was succinctly delivered, and will definitely help my playing by running patterns of 4ths and 5ths with the chord tones. Thanks once again Jeff.

[etiennechagnon]

"I found someone else" 😂 Important lesson man! I study jazz at the university of Montreal with the famous jazz bassist Alain Caron and he told us that each time he has to learn a new song, he comes back to this. He says Mike Stern do the same. In fact, we had a full semester course just on the way he builds up his impro on new songs from playing with chord tones only to a few bebop scales. I have part II of the course to my agenda next year! Have a good one my friend 🤘🏻

[valeriekuhn]

Jeff, I really like and appreciate your writing on the score to explain what is going on and how the chords are working. That is great information to me.

[griffinwojtowicz]

this is video that approaches this concept weaving though multiple disciplines and connecting the reasons WHY to use chord tones. I love lateral thought patterns. brilliant

[NickWebbSax]

Nice one man! Chord tone soloing is so overlooked as a way to internalise changes and make sure your playing is as coherent as possible; it gets rid of so much of the musical BS that we all are guilty of adding when we're just noodling.

Great vid. Can't wait for the next one.

[thomasgangsta]

This an absolutely fantastic demonstration, very good man!

[sourceofpain]

Oh dear... The content AND the delivery of the content, from your voice prosody, transitions, annotations and EDITING are simply top notch. Keep up the awesome work!

[jazzedb]

You have summed up my 20 years of music study in 15 min. Wish I saw this 20 years ago! Maybe this is a secret that allows teachers to charge students jazz improv lessons for 19 years

[mksounds]

I found you tonight quite by accident and I'm glad I did. Thank you for a very interesting lesson. Always good to get a new angle after playing for so many years.
All the best from the Bay Area.
MK

[anderssvensson]

Rhythm defines all great musicians !
Thanks Jeff !

[alexambroise]

Wow haven't watched your videos in a while and the editing is IMPRESSIVE. You have always given out prime content for free on Youtube, which I deeply admire, and this is a massive upgrade to an already awesome channel. Cheers Jeff!