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The lesson is based around a transcription of a one take improvised performance of me soloing over the chords of the song How High The Moon. The solo illustrates in some detail how I approach a lot of aspects of improvising over a jazz standard, which I also discuss in the 45 minute lesson video that I made.


The solo is 2 choruses long and as it is a basic example of how I play it contains a few polyrhythmic ideas as well as some cross the barline phrasing and reharmonizations. In the lesson I try to also discuss how the melodies are created and how they fit together since that is a topic that is often not covered in YouTube lessons (mostly because it is difficult to get into in a lesson of that length).

Some of the material I cover includes:

- Using Pentatonic scales over a jazz standard
- Playing Altered and diminsihed scales on dominant chords
- Phrasing across the barline and changing duration of chords
- Reharmonizing, adding leading chords in solos
- Using groupings to create rhythmical tension
- Different types of phrasing in a jazz solo (Swing, bebop and blues language)
- Adding chromatic passing notes to delay chord tones in a melody

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