Improvising Over Yesterdays
This Jerome Kern standard is a great vehicle to get started improvising over the minor ii-V-i progression, the line cliche and extended dominants. Watch this lesson to learn how to improvise over this tune with chord tones, guide tones, arpeggios, scale passages and approach patterns.
The “Improvising Over . . ." series of lessons is an ongoing collection of lessons on how to improvise over the chord changes to important tunes in the jazz repertoire. Each lesson in the series describes in detail how to improvise using chord tones, guide tones, arpeggios, chordscale passages and approach patterns and other improvisational techniques. A quiz at the end of each lesson will get you started and the Practice Sessions will get you improvising at the piano. Click on an individual lesson to learn more about it: Blue Bossa, Solar.
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