For most teaching methods, practicing scales is essential to learning fluency. This is also the case with the Jazz School. However, the many ideas presented in this course ensure you're your practice time is spent with significantly less boredom than simply playing scales up and down. Learn different melodic progressions such as groups of three, groups of four, thirds, sequences, triads and four-note-chords that will immediately make the scales sound much more like the music you want to create. This course also includes instructions for improvisation with accompanying sound examples and a jam track.
Level
Easy peasy
Lessons
9 Lessons | min
Lesson 1Introduction
Duration: min
Let me introduce you to the topics covered in the course "C major".
Lesson 2Fingerings
Duration: min
Here you can see all seven fingerings of the C major scale. Five fingerings are usually taught, which is probably because they are derived from the five fingerings of the pentatonic scale. But C major has seven notes and therefore seven possible starting points.
Lesson 3Patterns
Duration: min
These patterns show you how a scale can be used melodically. You will learn groups of three, groups of four and thirds.
Lesson 4Scales on one string
Duration: min
Practicing scales on one string is also a great way to combat boredom. Playing along the fretboard frees you from being trapped in fingering boxes.
Lesson 5Improvisation in C major (easy)
Duration: min
Before you go on your own journey, follow my footsteps and play this easy solo that I improvised for you. It is supposed to give you ideas that you might not have been able to develop if you hadn't learned this solo.
Lesson 6Triads
Duration: min
Each note of a scale can serve as the root note of a triad. In C major this is C, Dm, Em F, G Am and Bdim. The exercises in triads further break up the up-and-down scale.
Lesson 7Four-note-chords
Duration: min
The four-note-chords in C are called Cmaj7, Dm7, Em7, Fmaj7, G7, Am7 and Bm7(b5). With four notes you have much more expressive possibilities than with three.
Lesson 8Comprehensive Solo
Duration: min
This solo, which is still moderate in difficulty, musically brings together most of the content used so far.
Lesson 9Arpeggios across all strings
Duration: min
In order for you to be able to improvise fluently, the brain needs to be trained as well as the fingers. The better you know how your fingerboard is structured, the more fluidly you can develop ideas and use them while improvising. With the exercise presented here you will learn all the four notes of C major on all possible parts of the fingerboard. You train your mental technique (which is just as important as your motor skill) and, last but not least, your ear.
