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All The Things You Are: 15 Improvisation Tips

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  1. Introduction
  2. All The Things You Are – Theme
  3. Root of Each Chord
  4. Quarter Notes & Roots
  5. Roots & Thirds
  6. Guide Tones
  7. Fourths & Thirds
  8. Quarter Note Arpeggios
  9. Eight Note Arpeggios
  10. Patterns 5, 3, 2, 1
  11. The Modes Ascending
  12. Chord Scale Pattern
  13. The Bebop Scales Ascending
  14. The Bebop Scales Descending
  15. Pivots
  16. Finale
  17. All The Things You Are | Transcription Solo

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    Now, I would like to introduce you to the pivot technique. It is basically a regular arpeggio, but we’ll be dropping the third an octave down.

    For example on Fm7, after playing the tonic F I’m going to drop its third Ab, an octave below and go back up, with the fifth C and seventh Eb. I’m going to demonstrate this great device while pivoting on each chord.