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Play-along
Lessons
Aural skills
Theory knowledge
Exercises tiered for your progressing success

​Jazz Improvisation Lessons

  • A unique course of 10 progressive lessons 
  • YouTube viewing supported with pdf lesson worksheets (see below)
  • No prior jazz knowledge required
  • For all instruments including orchestral strings
  • Work at your own pace
  • Learn the skills and knowledge to play, teach and enjoy your jazz improvisation
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Is this course okay for my level of playing?
​ - Download the first lesson to find out. This is a progressing course.  Read through the topic points for each lesson and check out the 10th lesson to see how far you will progress.  Make sure you can play each lesson before going onto the next even if it seems easy at first.  Key information and skills are being introduced in each new lesson, progressing you towards your target success.
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There are so many excellent resources to be found online, but how do you know where to start and what choices will support your progression?

Jazz Plate is a unique 10 lesson, progressive course that will guide you through carefully developed stages for your improvisation success. After the 10 lessons, you will have all the knowledge and practical skills to approach your improvisation needs with confidence and the clarity to choose other online resources to further support your developing improvisation interests.  

I invite you to join me as we progress through these specially designed play-along lessons, drawing on my 30 years teaching experience.  


Phillip Brunton
​2022

​Great to hear from you...

Let me know how you are getting on.  Do you have any questions or suggestions on how I can make this course better for you?  
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Access YouTube lessons and FREE pdf worksheets here

Lesson One:
• Major 3rd interval
​• Major chord symbol
• Chromatic and Cycle of 5th chord progressions
• Swing articulation
• Improvisation: Call and Response

YouTube Lesson 1 link:

https://youtu.be/jyWB0CnkhOI

​Free pdf Lesson Worksheets:
jazz_plate_lesson_1_worksheet_Eb.pdf
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jazz_plate_lesson_1_C_treble_clef.pdf
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jazz_plate_lesson_1_C_alto_clef.pdf
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Suggested Listening:
Wild Cat Blues / Clarence Williams Blues Five
with Sidney Bechet on soprano sax (1922)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct31n3UGHYc
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Lesson Two:
• Perfect 5th interval
​• Major chords
• Non Harmonic Tones
• Rhythmic Anticipation
• Improvisation: Call and Response

YouTube Lesson 2 link:

https://youtu.be/wEtld1b_GDc

Free pdf Lesson Worksheets:
jazz_plate_lesson_2_worksheet_Eb.pdf
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jazz_plate_lesson_2_worksheet_F.pdf
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jazz_plate_lesson_2_C_treble_clef.pdf
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jazz_plate_lesson_2_C_alto_clef.pdf
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jazz_plate_lesson_2_C_bass_clef.pdf
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Suggested Listening:
Chimes Blues / King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
with Louis Armstrong on cornet (1923)
https://youtu.be/AG8Xdi8R9kE
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Lesson Three:
• Major 6th chords
​• Tones and semitones
• Melodic/harmonic relationship
• Pentatonic Scale (major)
• Improvisation: Call and Response

YouTube Lesson 3 link:

https://youtu.be/1b6bTSpMBGI

Free pdf Lesson Worksheets:
jazz_plate_lesson_3_worksheet_Eb.pdf
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jazz_plate_lesson_3_worksheet_C.pdf
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jazz_plate_lesson_3_C_alto_clef.pdf
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jazz_plate_lesson_3_C_bass_clef.pdf
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Suggested Listening:
A Love Supreme / John Coltrane
​Album (1965)
https://youtu.be/ll3CMgiUPuU

Lesson Four:
• Minor 3rd and Minor 7th intervals
​• Minor 7th chord
• Pentatonic Scale (minor)
• Pentatonic Patterns
• Improvisation: 4 bar phrase structures

YouTube Lesson 4 link:

​https://youtu.be/IeUz-bZ1UQk

​Free pdf Lesson Worksheets:
jazz_plate_lesson_4_worksheet_Eb.pdf
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jazz_plate_lesson_4_C_treble_clef.pdf
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jazz_plate_lesson_4_C_alto_clef.pdf
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jazz_plate_lesson_4_C_bass_clef.pdf
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Suggested Listening:
Saxophone Colossus / Sonny Rollins
​Album (1956)
https://youtu.be/zScPZtK1m1o
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Lesson Five:
• Dominant 7th chord
• Pentatonic Patterns
• Blues Scale
• Blues: chord progression (part one)
• Improvisation: Blues 

YouTube Lesson 5 link:

https://youtu.be/a6tS8uRhJic​​
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​Free pdf Lesson Worksheets:
jazz_plate_lesson_5_worksheet_Eb.pdf
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jazz_plate_lesson_5_worksheet_C.pdf
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jazz_plate_lesson_5_C_bass_clef.pdf
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Suggested Listening:
Blows the Blues / Sonny Stitt
​Album (1961)
https://youtu.be/ezAdT6gKBzA
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Lesson Six:
• Major 7th chord
• Warm-up: symmetrical scales
• Approach and surround notes
• Building your own Pentatonic patterns
• Improvisation: Rhythms Changes

YouTube Lesson 6 link:

​https://youtu.be/8cMARkshvOg
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​Free pdf Lesson Worksheets:
jazz_plate_lesson_6_worksheet_Eb.pdf
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Suggested Listening:
Chet Is Back / Chet Baker
​Album (1962)
https://youtu.be/D2mqYsYqyIc

Lesson Seven:
• Modality
• Key Signatures
• Tetra chords
• Modes
• Improvisation: Modality

YouTube Lesson 7 link:

https://youtu.be/NIbW6lwP0Jo​
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​Free pdf Lesson Worksheets:
jazz_plate_lesson_7_worksheet_Eb.pdf
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jazz_plate_lesson_7_worksheet_C.pdf
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jazz_plate_lesson_7_C_bass_clef.pdf
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Suggested Listening:
Kind of Blue / Miles Davis
​Album (1959)
https://youtu.be/8uUCIQ50e-4
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Lesson Eight:
• Bebop 
• Diatonic chord scales
• II - V - I progression
• Secondary dominants and II V
• Improvisation: Rhythm Changes

​YouTube Lesson 8 link:

https://youtu.be/tJqiIcIpyws​
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Free pdf Lesson Worksheets:
jazz_plate_lesson_8_worksheet_Eb.pdf
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jazz_plate_lesson_8_worksheet_C.pdf
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Suggested Listening:
Bird and Diz / Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie
​Album (1952)
https://youtu.be/lGxajV75VvM
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Lesson Nine:
• Tensions and altered tensions
• Substitute chords
• Minor Diatonic 7th chords
• Subdominant minor chords
• Improvisation: Autumn Leaves


YouTube Lesson 9 link:

https://youtu.be/82fB1FHTUPI​

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Free pdf Lesson Worksheets: 
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Lesson Ten:
• Review of Chords/Scales
• Augmented and Diminished Chords
• Approach Tones
• Three level Approach to Improvisation

• 10 Considerations in Building Solos
• Blues (part 2) Additional Chords
• Improvisation: It Don't Mean a Thing

YouTube Lesson 10 link:


https://youtu.be/kWxfwDxydXY​
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​Free pdf Lesson Worksheets:
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Pentatonic Scales Chart:
• All 12 pentatonic scales (major and minor based)
• Used in lesson 6 for building pentatonic patterns
• Instrument specific range
• 2 octaves plus 2 notes (17th) range


Pentatonic chart: saxophone.pdf
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For saxophone

Pentatonic chart: treble clef.pdf
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For trumpet, clarinet, french horn, violin, guitar, keyboard and tuned mallet percussion instruments

Pentatonic chart: treble clef high.pdf
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For flute, oboe, soprano and tenor recorder

Pentatonic chart: alto clef.pdf
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For viola

Pentatonic chart: bass clef.pdf
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For trombone, euphonium, tuba, cello, double bass, electric bass
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Jazz Spoons:

• Teaching Jazz Improvisation to young students

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