Lessons

The Diminished scale is useful for improvising over the Diminished chord and also Dominant 7b9 chords, (although it can be applied in other situations as well, which makes learning this lick very important!) 

II V’s progressions are the bedrock of almost all jazz standards and I’ve said many times how important it is to have a grasp of this vocabulary if you are going to express yourself well in improvisation. 

In this lesson of our 12 licks in one key we are going to look at Dominant 7th lick with added chromatic notes, (lick number 3 on the sheet) 

In this first lesson of 12 Licks in One Key we are going to look at a Major 7th lick.

What you need to do now is record yourself playing it.  Ideally, (if you can?) Record yourself as I have in this video with Joel is one speakers (pan the fader hard right) and yourself, (hard left) so that you can compare and contrast between yourself and Joel – this is great for all other transcription projects that you do. 

I wanted to show you how the process of transcribing is still worth all the effort – even if you don’t get the clips up to 100% straight away.