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If jazz progressions were edible, Bird Blues would constitute the perfect meal. That is because musically speaking it is rich in harmonic nutrition! In just 12 measures, this Charlie Parker inspired chord progression tightly packs all the essential chord families you are bound to encounter in most jazz standards.
So why first learn the rudiments of jazz improvisation employing a fat 32 measure standard when you can accomplish the same feat in a lean 12 measures and save yourself the added time and frustration?
In this video lesson I introduce you to the "Bird Blues Diet", a jazz improvisation method, or should I say "strategy", I (as well as a select group of teachers) employ to gradually expose new students, one chord/scale at a time in preparation to improvise over a great number of standards. So If you have been having a hard time finding a direct and well structured method to study improvisation, what I describe in this video may just be the answer...
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