How to Use Pentatonics on Jazz Standards

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Video by Austin Kruczek

Chad LB is an international recording artist who has toured globally as a bandleader, and with superstars ranging from Chris Botti to Taylor Swift. He has been a featured soloist with premiere ensembles like the Juilliard Jazz Orchestra, and was formerly a member of the multi GRAMMY winning Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra. Despite his demanding tour schedule, Chad is on faculty as a visiting artist at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music for their new Roots, Jazz and American Music degree program.

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[ChadLefkowitzBrown]

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[srjcinstrumentalmusic]

Incredible videos as always! Just purchased the Ultimate Shred Package - All 6 PDF Packages + Pentatonics Masterclass. Incredible material - some of the best jazz development material I've ever seen (comparing to national college jazz standard materials). Thank you for your inspiring musical & teaching abilities!!

[cjgreen]

Sorry bro, can't make it to your wedding today. Chad dropped

[marcoevans]

Thanks man! This lesson really brought it home 🏡😊

[JohnCoughlan_JAC]

Great video and concepts overall but the hidden gem for me was you talking about using the common tones between inside and outside scales to pivot in and out of different tonalities. This is something I’ve been struggling with in my lines and I think this is going to be a big help for me. Thanks for sharing, now I’m off to practice!

[jojopt]

Once again, a great explanation of this concept. Hearing it again really helps drive the message home. Thanks for all the great videos!!

[saxiroth]

Gotta love Chad. Really doesn’t get better than this.

[zephaniarutlokwana]

You thought me to bisect and analyze jazz licks. l am so grateful for that. Thank you for the music lessons

[scottmorrise]

I bought this set and have enjoyed playing them so far. Thank you Chad!

[protectoresvaldivia]

Es muy generoso compartir tanta información y de una manera muy buena manera!!!! Muchas Gracias Chad!!! Saludos desde Valdivia Chile 🇨🇱 eres un gran ejemplo a seguir

[coreychandler]

I love your explanations and demonstrations. They stretch me and help me truly understand. You play them as smooth as silk. I think I have a full year's work just on this one étude.

[StoneysWorkshop]

good grief! Great stuff here.
Also looks like a soprano on the shelf, love to hear a lesson on that!

[bluessax]

Dang, I may have to get this one ☝🏽 🔥

[kenbeattie]

Another great video and exiting ideas, thank you. I am working on getting these scales under my fingers in all keys so can take this stuff to the next level. I have several of your packages now and really like the way you include examples of pentatonic shifting in many of them, which are great for reference.

[DelphinusOrcastra]

Fun! Woody Shaw would use bebop gestures to initiate tonal shift. He called his techniques “polytonality” 🐬

[newtonlkh]

The explanation of the pentatonic shifting in Don Lee to be very thorough, clear and impressive!
Thank you!

Are these explanations included in the pdf? or are we supposed to work it out on our own?

[glennhenrich]

Thanks for the pentatonic explanation. The inside versions on 1st degree and 5th degree of gone chords was already familiar. Likewise the inversion or renunbering for m7. However I don’t buy the idea of that dominant ‘pentatonic on 1, 3, 5 and 7 of the mixolydian. To me this is sounding as a dominant 9th arpeggio, not a pentatonic sound.

[marike]

These sound terrific, I’m definitely gonna buy the book. Didn’t Don Lee draw Spider-Man? 🕷🎷

[raybutcher]

Wish he could write out that phrase he played at the start!

[charliethetyrton]

why a different mouthpiece and ligature so frequently ? thx