Just purchased. I love this approach and is in fact how I finally started to teach myself to make the changes after years of people telling me to play scales. Obviously, I love more advanced concepts too but as you point out if you can't make clear musical statements with the chord tones, none of the rest adds much to the music. Looking forward to working through the etudes!

@markgriskey

3 жыл бұрын

"There will never be another Ewe" the sheep herder's lament ... pun courtesy of Ladd McIntosh

@musamor75

3 жыл бұрын

@@markgriskey That's a beauty! Well done old chap.

@bencmcintoshjr8480

3 жыл бұрын

Eb Chart for Tenderly

@norakat

4 ай бұрын

For major diatonic chords - every note of the scale is actually a chord tone.

The editing is a solid A+

@miker7808

3 жыл бұрын

I think A# would be more appropriate. lol

@arcioko2142

3 жыл бұрын

@@miker7808 A## its better

@b3llydrum

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah it's

@RussianSpy4632

2 жыл бұрын

My parents say it's average, I'm not asian or racist but I feel like it ;(

That "cringe" note at the start was pretty awesome, not going to lie.

@andrewgtr24

3 жыл бұрын

It’s hip as heck

@tsg_frank5829

3 жыл бұрын

Now you're thinking in Jazz™

@anuvette

3 жыл бұрын

No

@joseloo4343

3 жыл бұрын

@@anuvette )

@ethanpaulsoncomposer7252

3 жыл бұрын

Yea I actually really liked it

As a non-jazz intermediate guitar player I am finding these lessons extremely useful. Thank you!

Welcome back! Btw this editing is insane!

@rodrigogomes2064

3 жыл бұрын

Ye can see how insane it is in his eyes

This is knowledge EVERY musician needs to learn. Solid lesson Jeff, 15 minutes has provided foundation for a VAST amount of material to study and work on.

I mean, to call ourselves a self-taught in these days, one mustn't watch to much of KZread, cause if so, you better say you are formed at the KZread Academy. Learning from people like Rick Beato, Nahre Sol, David Bruce, and our great Jeff Schneider, just to name a very few, is on another level in terms of free, available and valuable education. It's in a stellar another level, imo.

@BillyMac812

3 жыл бұрын

Those are my teachers - also; Scott Devine, Eric Haugen (very melodic guitarist), Brett Papa, Adam Neely, Tim Pearce, and Paul Davids...

@machinate

3 жыл бұрын

@@BillyMac812 Tack Brian Krock onto that list, especially if you're on a jazz/modern classical vibe.

@BillyMac812

3 жыл бұрын

@@machinate I will check him out, Thanks!

@macdoug1234

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed. I used to have to try and learn from slowing down my KISS records back in the day. Now you can just type the song into youtube and someone will teach how to play it for free. Kids today don’t know how good they got it

@ernst-filipmichel9744

3 жыл бұрын

They are only teachers if you really are a student tho ..

Jeff, I really like and appreciate your writing on the score to explain what is going on and how the chords are working. That is great information to me.

Oh dear... The content AND the delivery of the content, from your voice prosody, transitions, annotations and EDITING are simply top notch. Keep up the awesome work!

Lines that rhyme - awesome concept, thank you!!!

Jeff, Have you tried formula improvisation! Take 1357 and think of them as target notes. Now choose any note and a half step below a whole step above then play the target note. Sometimes this formula actually works!!😳🎸🥁🎹☠️😎

The most useful video you ever can find on the net whatever the instrument or the style you play

Nice one man! Chord tone soloing is so overlooked as a way to internalise changes and make sure your playing is as coherent as possible; it gets rid of so much of the musical BS that we all are guilty of adding when we're just noodling. Great vid. Can't wait for the next one.

What an amazing video! So helpful, thanks Jeff!

Finally after a long month!!!!! Thank you for great content!

Rhythm defines all great musicians ! Thanks Jeff !

Wow haven't watched your videos in a while and the editing is IMPRESSIVE. You have always given out prime content for free on KZread, which I deeply admire, and this is a massive upgrade to an already awesome channel. Cheers Jeff!

I have played flute for over 35 years and was never taught your approach. It was succinctly delivered, and will definitely help my playing by running patterns of 4ths and 5ths with the chord tones. Thanks once again Jeff.

The level of production combined with the clarity and value of these lessons is amazing.

Dawg, I needed this video. Thanks for putting it out for free

I am a guitarist and since guitarist are somehow cursed with playing 3-note per strings scale and pentatonic, I have to admit that this is by far the best lesson on how to improvise. The rhythms arent too crazy in the given example and everything is very understable! Thanks Jeff!

this is video that approaches this concept weaving though multiple disciplines and connecting the reasons WHY to use chord tones. I love lateral thought patterns. brilliant

Great information for people just starting to improvise, and it’s nice that you take a deeper dive into your composition! Thank you!

Welcome back I've been reviewing a lot of your old videos. I find how you teach is better for me. I understand music much better. I still suck at playing but I understand it technically at least. Hopefully we'll see more of you in the future.

We’ve missed you! Thanks a lot man!!

Excellent lesson, Sir Schneider! Thank you!

I am glad you released something new! I enjoy your take on music.

Thanks for this lesson. The tips of making ("simple") chord tone solos not sound drab are invaluable.

The coherence of this chord-tone improvisation reflects beautifully the coherence of your instruction, here.

This is just the kind of thing I'm practicing now after years of scales approach. Fun going back to basics. Good presentation here.

I must say your explanations make it so much easier to make sense of improvisation.

Excellent Jeff! Glad to see you're doing well. Kind regards, Chris.

Jeff: this is really great from every perspective: musically, visually, educationally. I am planning to seek out much more of your content!

Awesomely explained. I was trying to do all of that well aware of the key aspects you just explained. Right now I'm taking a little break from jazz, but I think what I was missing was trying to compose solos, which is often seen as the opposite of improvising but I think is a nice way to work on phrasing, the broad look of the solo so it just doesn't look like a bunch of licks... And don't forget to transcribe guys. I don't write my transcriptions down right away, I prefer to learn the solos by memory for a while, play them regularly, enjoy them, and maybe later on writing them down, analyze them and try to incorporate the lines on other songs. But well it's easier said than done, hope you all can keep on with your goals as I'm trying with mine.

@jeffreydelisle7337

3 жыл бұрын

Jazz is oxygen. Don’t break for too long

this is so well made! I appreciate this

Great content and explanation, Jeff! I've been meaning to practice soloing with chord tones for a while now, but this made the thought a lot more concrete. Definitely going to apply this to a couple standards.

This was incredibly helpful. I need to watch this a few times.

So my main instrument is vibraphone, and I learned to improvise through the simple phrase "just play drums on the chord tones." This video put it in some ways that I hadn't really thought about before. I love chord and scalar based improv methods. Great video

Thanks for the video Jeff, very insightful content

This is amazingly helpful, thank you Jeff 🙏🏼 And great editing

Dude this is perfect, thank you!

This video is one of the best I’ve ever seen. Thank you! You’re a genius!

Thank you Jeff!!!!

Beautiful video! Definitely worth the wait.

Love your construct, approach!

Great content, but I'm also blown away by the amount of top quality editing here!

Welcome back and think you.

You’re a great teacher man!

Outstanding approach! Great job. Peace.

"I found someone else" 😂 Important lesson man! I study jazz at the university of Montreal with the famous jazz bassist Alain Caron and he told us that each time he has to learn a new song, he comes back to this. He says Mike Stern do the same. In fact, we had a full semester course just on the way he builds up his impro on new songs from playing with chord tones only to a few bebop scales. I have part II of the course to my agenda next year! Have a good one my friend 🤘🏻

You have summed up my 20 years of music study in 15 min. Wish I saw this 20 years ago! Maybe this is a secret that allows teachers to charge students jazz improv lessons for 19 years

Your videos are actually so goood

Awesome video, Jeff. Thanks!

You are such a good teacher!

the production of your videos have become phenomenal over the years

Thanks, man! I was listening to this while driving, really makes me wanna go home and practice!💪😀😀👍

Great stuff Jeff! Brilliant video.

Great advice. Thanks Jeff!

Helpful concept and explanation. Thanks Jeff.

Excellent breakdown of concepts

Such a clean video, brilliant

Awesome ! Loved the analysis. Beautiful explanation ! Now subbed ! Thank you !

You are a good teacher. Stay safe.

This is awesome. Speaking some very clear language here! You're a great teacher

Muy bueno!!! Gracias Jeff!!!

great stuf Jeff! THANK YOU SO MUCH!! KEEP ON TRUCKING!!!!

So talented! More covers please!!!

Great teaching and great editing!

Outstanding

Thank you, great video, very articulate and inspiring.

I often like to think of any non chordal tones as possible extensions or colors of the chord I’m improvising on, thus extending this idea of “chord tone improvisation”. That way, you can actually delineate all your melodic choices as harmonic choices, without having to think in terms of scales (which I find too intricate and mnemonic). It also makes the solo AND the harmony way more “horizontal”, meaning the melodic lines flow together with the harmonic movements and viceversa, which is pretty cool

Makes total sense - thanks!!

Great lesson, presented clearly! Thanks.

Excellent teaching, Jeff.👍👍

Sir, you're a genius! This is an extremely simple and easiest way to make a solo sound good. Thanks )

Thank you Jeff for this interesting tutorial and the free link.

Amazing video, really adding value 🙌🏼

Excellent!!!!!

I like the concept, thanks

Hey man! Just saw one of your videos from five years ago and this one. Just wanted to say you’ve improved a lot! Hope you’re having a merry Christmas.

Very nice, Jeff! It's great for my students, and for me as well.

Super helpful! Lophiile suggested your channel on a video he did for Native Instruments, and this is the first vid I saw. Very, very helpful!

The video production is just next level

As a guitar player, I generally prefer the melodic choices sax/trompets player do when improvising. I think it has to do with the way you guys are taught to think the sound before playing, instead of following a finger pattern (which is what we do when begin to play the guitar and struggle to overcome later on).

Great job! These concepts took me 40 years to discover because no one laid it out this clearly. I spent a career in television and live performance with top stars and had to figure this out searching for answers. My breakthrough came with Sam Most's book. I actually did a gig with Sam in1980. I found his book in 2018. YOU are the best online!

Dude I have been playing classical piano since I was 4 years and played well into my high school years but when I went to college, I wanted to switch it up and learn jazz. Scales were already a part of my repertoire, and even after applying complex scales like the lydian dominant, half-whole and super locrian scales, I never knew how to use them comfortably. Thank you so much for breaking it down and teaching the simplistic way to learn it. From here I can now build a foundation for which to apply my knowledge and create better solos. Thanks man! Keep it up! Liked and subscribed!

Amazing content, thank you!

Lit AF. Your content is stellar

Wonderful music lessons. Now it will be easy to practice on the guitar for me.

Nice video! it really helped me reinforce my understanding of melody in general, and it's relationship with harmony.

WHAT A GREAT TEACHER. HUGS AND TKS FROM BRAZIL.

Yay you're back really high effort video dude nice job!

That's top-notch tuition right there - thanks for this!

This is excellent thanks very much really helpful

Excellent upload thank you.

Excellent! Thank you very much.

Awesome analysis! And great editing 👍

Quality video 🙌🏼 Love this

Thank you so much for this video . It was a great lesson for me .

Wise words. Many thanks