Improvising Over In Your Own Sweet Way
The Dave Brubeck standard, In Your Own Sweet Way, presents a challenge to improvisors: how to solo over a progression that spans a wide range of keys at a fast tempo. It starts in G minor, moves to Bb, Gb, D, C and then Db in it's thirty-two bars. Kirk Lightsey sheds some light on this problem in his recording of the tune on his 2004 Sunnyside release, The Night's of Bradley's. Watch as the transcription of his solo is analyzed for the four components of melodic construction and gain insight into his improvisational concept to inform your own approach to soloing over this tune. Get the specifics in this latest lesson in the Improvising Over . . . series.
What is JazzPianoOnline.com?
JazzPianoOnline.com is an on-demand, digital library of streaming video jazz piano lessons. Each transcription-based lesson features a birds-eye view of the piano keyboard synchronized to animated and annotated music notation. Choose from an ever-growing collection of over 70 lessons on Jazz Theory & Composition, Improvisation & Licks, Chords & Voicings and Arranging, Styles & More. Each lesson includes downloadable PDF practice sessions with self- paced exercises and tunes for you to play with the accompanying custom play-along files provided in MIDI, Band-in-a-Box, GarageBand and now M4a audio formats.
The Dave Brubeck standard, In Your Own Sweet Way, presents a challenge to improvisors: how to solo over a progression that spans a wide range of keys at a fast tempo. It starts in G minor, moves to Bb, Gb, D, C and then Db in it's thirty-two bars. Kirk Lightsey sheds some light on this problem in his recording of the tune on his 2004 Sunnyside release, The Night's of Bradley's. Watch as the transcription of his solo is analyzed for the four components of melodic construction and gain insight into his improvisational concept to inform your own approach to soloing over this tune. Get the specifics in this latest lesson in the Improvising Over . . . series.
What is JazzPianoOnline.com?
JazzPianoOnline.com is an on-demand, digital library of streaming video jazz piano lessons. Each transcription-based lesson features a birds-eye view of the piano keyboard synchronized to animated and annotated music notation. Choose from an ever-growing collection of over 70 lessons on Jazz Theory & Composition, Improvisation & Licks, Chords & Voicings and Arranging, Styles & More. Each lesson includes downloadable PDF practice sessions with self- paced exercises and tunes for you to play with the accompanying custom play-along files provided in MIDI, Band-in-a-Box, GarageBand and now M4a audio formats.
