Know These 3 Jazz Situations & You Will Be Able to Play 99% of Jazz Standards

Sick of hitting wrong notes in your jazz improvisation? If you know how to navigate these three harmonic situations you can play 99% of tunes from the Real Book without hitting a wrong note. In this lesson Danny Markovitch breaks down the three essential harmonic situations used in nearly every jazz standard, provides the appropriate modes that can be used, and gives musical examples for each situation. If you're still hitting clams, this perennial information is essential for any improvising musician.
Intro 0:00
Situation #1 minor 0:22
Situation #1 major 3:19
Situation #2 5:33
Situation #3 6:38
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[@edwardjons8684]

Jazz situation 1: You girlfriend comes home late. Where ya been? Out. Out? Yeah. You mean like #11 out? Yeah. Cool.

[@cutronixxx]

WOW. You guys. I don’t know what say. THANK YOU. This is the most helpful video on improvising over the standards I have ever seen. WOW. Looks like you’ve got a new member of your patreon!

[@dannymarkovitchslor626]

My pleasure. There's another video coming up where I show how to apply all of this on Stella by Starlight.

[@cutronixxx]

@@dannymarkovitchslor626 Fantastic! I’m a patron now too

[@dannymarkovitchslor626]

@@cutronixxx Thank you! once you get to try it out please let me know if you have any questions and I'll try to address it here or in another video if necessary.

[@Web4Panama]

Guao!! (Wow in español). Estupendo Señor Danny. I’ve gone through so many 2-5-1 tutorials but have not seen the scale options laid out so clearly. That’s a lot of information. It warrants a class on each of those options with practical examples but I am also enjoying the pace of the overview. Bravo. Tim

[@dannymarkovitchslor626]

My pleasure! Please let me know if there are specific things you would want me to expand on.

[@Tridan24]

Thanks very much for this. I've always liked jazz improv and I always knew that I've known the scales needed but I too could not find a tutorial to explain this and just gave up. Kudos to you for taking the time you have no idea what this means, thankyou so much.

[@nolancote6516]

Very helpful, thank you!

[@analogman9697]

You're the best reed man I've heard in a long time. I never knew there was a soprano sax that had an upward bell. Just discovered your band. The other Dani is the strongest guitar player I've heard in a really long time. Best wishes!

[@marbinmusic]

Thank you so much!

[@jupitermoongauge4055]

Amazing, super clear information. Thanks

[@dannymarkovitchslor626]

8:40 There's no video up there! LIES!

[@banjobanjo-xn7lq]

For your final example in situation 3 where you play C whole-half diminished. Is it played on the C diminished chord? For example, a blues in Gb would have C diminished, as you mentioned, after the IV chord (B7). Is this correct?

[@dannymarkovitchslor626]

Correct!