You know what’s easy to think about? A line that starts on the root of the chord. To begin, the first intermediate jazz exercise will help you get rid of your root dependency… Intermediate Jazz Improvisation Exercise #1: No More Root Well, today I get to prove that to you and you’ll see just how much we can squeeze out of every note Bird plays. Even a line or two can be PACKED with valuable information that can catapult your playing forward!Īnd there’s this great Charlie Parker solo on Rhythm Changes that we recently we’re looking at from a rhythmic perspective that is perfect to illustrate to you some of the language concepts and exercises that we want to explore today.Īs I mentioned in this Charlie Parker Rhythmic Lesson, his lines are PACKED with musical information. You don’t need a whole solo or even a chorus. Welcome to intermediate jazz improvisation… Let’s Get Some Languageįor today’s lesson, we’re going to need a little jazz language to work with. These tactics will get you thinking about and working on your jazz language in different ways, resulting in much greater improvisational flexibility. This freedom comes from the ability to play jazz language from any possible angle, from – any chord-tone, any direction, and from any beat of the measure.Īs you advance and acquire more jazz language for all the common chord progressions that you might encounter, to reach this state of freedom you’ll need to add some new creative practice tactics to your routine. Over time, you want your facility and understanding of jazz language to grow. It’s what you can do with these ideas and the musical information that matters… In fact, there’s nothing wrong with “simple” musical ideas. When you’re moving from beginner to intermediate, you don’t need to add complexity to your language concept. They might start from the root of the chord, avoid “complex” chord tones like the b9 or #11, and perhaps they use simple rhythms too.īut hey, if you’re new to the idea of jazz language and just taking a line through all keys is difficult enough, don’t sweat it!! Well as a beginner, when you start to acquire jazz language, the first lines you study are usually quite basic, and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. That’s what a beginner does…Īn intermediate jazz improviser knows how to utilize language…but how can you start this transition to intermediate and take your progress with jazz language to the next level? More options…Done are the days where you randomly mixed notes up from a scale trying endlessly to improvise a lyrical melody over the chord changes. So you’ve finally realized the importance of jazz language and you’re starting to learn lines in all keys…it’s like a whole new world has opened up.
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