“Another great class!”

“Perfect practical application!”

“Excellent solo examples & analysis!”

“Outstanding; keep the good stuff coming.”

“Loved the Woody Shaw sequence examples!”

“Takeaway: Need to have a lot more critical listening.”

“Great advice and way to make scales help your jazz playing!!!”

“Takeaways: Tritones and 3 and 7 exchanging places. Lines, shapes, sequences.”

“I always love having exposure to these great musicians! I can’t think of anything better for where I live.
(Somewhat remote here in Hawaii. ;))”

[00:00:00]: Intro Performance
[00:01:12]: Introduction
[00:02:09]: Different Ways of Playing Inside
[00:03:05]: Another Inside Approach: Leaving Space
[00:04:02]: Playing the Blues over the Tune
[00:04:50]: Blending All Three Inside Approaches
[00:06:26]: Chord Regions: Coltrane’s Impressions
[00:07:38]: Building an Outside Arc over Static Chords
[00:08:39]: ii-V & ii-V-I Chord Regions
[00:10:08]: Outside Techniques: Using the PDFs
[00:10:31]: Example 1: Stock Inside Phrase
[00:10:51]: Example 2: The Backdoor ii-V
[00:12:06]: Example 3: Tritone Substitution
[00:14:07]: Example 4: Diminished Patterns over the V
[00:15:49]: Example 5: Coltrane Changes
[00:17:35]: Example 6: Own Chords Resolving on Tonic
[00:19:22]: Example 7: Out in the Middle, Back In
[00:21:16]: Example 8: From Lines to Shapes
[00:21:36]: [Q&A] Tritone: Flat 5 or Sharp 4?
[00:23:41]: [Q&A] Sharp 11 vs Sharp 4 Naming
[00:24:16]: [Q&A] 3rd & 7th in Tritone Subs
[00:25:19]: [Q&A] Can Outside Chords Be Random?
[00:25:53]: Defining & Demonstrating Shapes
[00:27:32]: Wayne Shorter, Coltrane & Gary Bartz
[00:27:52]: Woody Shaw: King of Weaving In & Out
[00:28:11]: Example 9: Sequences (Herbie & McCoy)
[00:29:58]: Different Levels of Dissonance
[00:31:49]: Dissonance via Tritone Substitution
[00:32:32]: Dissonance via Outside Sequences
[00:33:22]: Resolving to a Tonic That Doesn’t Exist
[00:33:58]: Complete Disregard of the Harmony
[00:34:36]: How to Practice These Techniques
[00:36:48]: A Cappella Demo: Out of Nowhere
[00:37:45]: Playing What Feels Good (Dizzy Gillespie)
[00:39:47]: [Q&A] Weaving In & Out in Minor ii-V-I
[00:40:18]: His Own Transcribed Solo: Out of Nowhere
[00:41:46]: Solo Analysis: First Half, Bar by Bar
[00:43:25]: Augmented Scale Superimposition
[00:46:30]: Solo Analysis: Second Half
[00:48:07]: Scott Wendholt’s Major 3rd in Minor
[00:49:19]: [Q&A] Keeping Your Place in the Form
[00:50:13]: [Q&A] More Woody Shaw Sequences
[00:51:40]: [Q&A] Augmented Scale as Two Aug Chords
[00:53:38]: [Q&A] Combining Fundamentals & Improv
[00:55:20]: Starting in a Small Range
[00:57:12]: [Q&A] Practicing Scales Creatively
[00:59:15]: Inventing Your Own Scale Patterns
[01:00:46]: [Q&A] The 3-1-3-5 Coltrane Pattern
[01:02:00]: [Q&A] Limiting Practice to Save Chops
[01:03:18]: [Q&A] Call & Response & Closing Lines
[01:05:21]: [Q&A] Fundamentals for Healthy Playing
[01:08:26]: Charlie Parker Omnibook: “Arban for Jazz”
[01:08:48]: Final Performance