ii-V7-I Licks and Jazz Improvisation Exercises

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ThisJazz Piano Tutorial is on ii-V7-I licks and Jazz improvisation exercises.
Learning licks is an important part of improvisation. Not only does it give you a feel for the type of rhythm and phrasing that is typically used in Jazz improvisation, but memorised licks are also a good fall-back option if you run out of ideas while you’re improvising. It’s almost like a get out of jail free card. If you ever make a mistake or get lost during a solo, play a snazzy little lick and people will think you know exactly what you’re doing.
This video covered five Jazz licks played over a ii-V7-I in Bb, so our diatonic scale will be Bb Major. As we play through each of these exercises try to figure out what the is soloist ‘thinking’ while he or she is improvising these licks. While you are playing these look for:
- Arpeggios (including available tensions)
- Scale runs
- Passing notes outside of the scale
- Repetition/sequences/repeating rhythmic patterns
- What note each phrase starts and ends on
- What beat (on or off-beat) each phrases starts and ends on
- The different durations of the notes (eighth notes, triplets, quarter notes, etc)
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Thank you for teaching one of the clearest demonstrations of how to use the permitted upper register notes (9s, 11s and 13s) along with the chord tones to create the magic of jazz in licks in the 2-5-1 progression. Its quite a breakthrough for me

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Most of the time I ignore the theory of these vids and focus on the verbatim notes, but this is a notable exception to that pattern. Well done sir!

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[@alexsimonian9822]

Are modes essentially the same concept but another vocabulary to describe playing the tensions over a chord progression? For the ii, you can play the dorian (9, 11, 13), V you can play the altered scale (b9, 9, #9, b13, 13) and I you can play the lydian (#11)? You go from a play of no tension, to tension and then release.

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Thank you. It would also be nice if you demonstrated how one can use those licks in a free improvisation.

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Accidentals count for the note before which they are placed. Unlike in classical notation, being within the measure. Where we would a restoration sign for repeated following note. As a precaution to avoid confusion. Thanks. Bon PASCO from ARUBA. That's Merry Christmas from ARUBA.

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Number 4 finishes on the downbeat 3 ! :-)

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The end of Exercise 3 sounds like A Night in Tunisia. :-)

[@hilarytoussaint7295]

F7 .... start on a semi tone below the third. . (a slip of the tongue )

[@eransolomonmusic]

Hi! Terrific stuff! I understand that it goes well to imp. in Dorian on a Dm7 chord in a C piece. But the feel of Dorian is mainly in the B, which is an Avoid Note. So it kind of contradicts... What's my mixup? Thanks!

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I would try not to get too academic regarding "avoid notes ". The problem here is that it creates a sense of "right" and "wrong" etc.. if it sounds good, then play it

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@@S24W2 thanks for this... I do find that if something sounds good, there's always a good reason, a logic. So I'm always trying to figure it out...

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B is the 13, is an available tension over a minor chord

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#4 end`s on beat 3 !!! :-)

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[@unplandivino]

thanks! till now basically I played things with the diminished scale (HT) over the V7 (so principiant was I in all that... in my solipsistic solos :) ). Now, I think I'll go to see what is the relationship there... in this licks of yours... in the V7 parts (available tensions)... with the diabolic-great-homogeneus-diminished-scales over the V7's :) ... ...that "half tone - whole tone" stuff :)

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Yep, as stated, ES110.

[@phoenixrising1576]

Thanks this is very helpful but I find all the explaining and talking theory to melt my brain. I'd rather come to these assumptions myself through practice and not talking about it. I don't have a methodical mathmatical brain. Talking theory for me destroys me from wanting to learn. It can make it daunting and off putting.The theory makes it seem as complicated as the music sounds when in fact though, through practice it's not.I prefare as u do say to practice,memorise and most importantly produce your own licks. But I will go through this lesson slowly but I will never understand the theory. Thanks...