3 Step Process for Making The Changes

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An easy, 3-step process for how to practice making the changes when you improvise. Hint: it's all about targeting specific chord tones as you play. Anyone can do it!
0:00 Intro
0:38 What does "making the changes" mean?
1:40 Isolate and target chord tones over the changes
2:41 Three-step process for making the changes
3:01 Connecting chord tones via scales
6:27 Connecting via enclosures
8:40 Connecting chord tones via arpeggios
10:21 Go slow!
11:00 Incorporate scales, enclosures, and arpeggios in an organic way
13:01 Anyone can make the changes!
Video produced by Ben Meraz
Grammy-nominated trumpeter John Raymond is “steering jazz in the right direction” (Downbeat). He has released eight albums to critical acclaim, and has recorded or toured nationally and internationally with musicians such as Billy Hart, Orrin Evans, Cory Wong, S. Carey and more. John teaches in the Jazz Studies department at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, is the author of “The Jazz Trumpet Routine," and is the creator and host of the podcast “The Trumpet Summit."
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[@64Golfy]

Fantastic lesson thank you. Really clear to understand and great to practice. 😊

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[@raydeng83]

Pure gold, great lesson!

[@johnraymondmusic]

Thanks for watching!

[@clarklovell5885]

Thanks for boiling it down! I have always heard the general “arpeggiate the chords, play the guide tones, play shapes” stuff but never figured out how to organically incorporate exercises into the actual improv. Thanks for the new take!

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Love ya John. You’re the man.

[@johnraymondmusic]

🙏

[@claudioruiz1363]

Thanks bro!!!!!!!! So clear.

[@johnraymondmusic]

Thanks for watching!

[@tony3313]

Very helpful. Thank you. Liked and subscribed.

[@johnraymondmusic]

Thanks!

[@scott7695]

This is just so clear....lots of practice still ahead but wow this was clear on what to try etc...

[@johnraymondmusic]

That's the idea! Making the changes is not rocket science 😁

[@DrumCorpsLink]

Incredible content! Thank you!

[@johnraymondmusic]

Glad it was helpful!

[@TheStarlitfuse]

I'm confused about something, the other musicians play the harmony while the improviser plays right? So why is it so important for the soloist to play chord tones? Isn't the harmony already covered by the others? Secondly what about when soloists play 'outside the changes' what happens to the harmony then?

[@johnraymondmusic]

Playing chord tones on strong beats will allow the improviser's lines to outline the chord changes clearly, which they should be doing whether they're playing with other musicians or not! This is (in part) what all the masters do. Re: playing outside the changes, there's a number of different approaches to this...this conversation may be better for another video :)