

Step #8 – Ballad Improv Series 4
Stage 3 | Lesson: 32 | Step 8 – (Improvisation) Most people simply do not know what to do in order to improvise over a ballad. The textures taught in this step will give you some great ideas to express yourself.
Stage 3 | Lesson: 32 | Step 8 – (Improvisation) Most people simply do not know what to do in order to improvise over a ballad. The textures taught in this step will give you some great ideas to express yourself.
Stage 3 | Lesson: 31 | Step 10 – (Improvisation) These ballad improv textures are crucial to have in your improvisation. Without them your ballad improvisation is sure to sound very bland and you may get bored without knowing what to do.
Stage 3 | Lesson: 30 | Step 10 – (Improvisation) These ballad improv textures will be sure to give you lots of ideas to implement in your ballad solos.
Stage 3 | Lesson: 29 | Step 10 – (Improvisation) Improvising over ballads seems easy but can be quite difficult because of the slowwwwww tempo. Here we’ll start a ballad improvisation series that will help you tackle this issue with different improvisation strategies.
Stage 3 | Lesson: 29 | Step 15 – (Improvisation) In this step we’ll be integrating our first ballad improvisation strategies into the tune “The Nearness of You”.
Stage 3 | Lesson: 28 | Step 5 – (Improvisation) There is an age old saying that says, ‘If you want to learn something, do it.’ Essentially if you’re trying to learn how to run, all the walking in the world isn’t going to teach you. You got to do it! This is exactly why this exercise is so fantastic in producing results and helping students break through sticking points!
Stage 3 | Lesson: 27 | Step 3 – (Repertoire) We’re still building off of our previous rhythms by using sixteenth notes. This will be more challenging than the previous two but keep the tempo down at first so that you can actually utilize the 16th notes properly.
Stage 3 | Lesson: 26 | Step 3 – (Improvisation) This exercise from our continuous improv series could be the best rhythm of them all because triplets emulate the swing feel.
Stage 3 | Lesson: 32 | Step 8 – (Improvisation) Most people simply do not know what to do in order to improvise over a ballad. The textures taught in this step will give you some great ideas to express yourself.
Stage 3 | Lesson: 31 | Step 10 – (Improvisation) These ballad improv textures are crucial to have in your improvisation. Without them your ballad improvisation is sure to sound very bland and you may get bored without knowing what to do.
Stage 3 | Lesson: 30 | Step 10 – (Improvisation) These ballad improv textures will be sure to give you lots of ideas to implement in your ballad solos.
Stage 3 | Lesson: 29 | Step 10 – (Improvisation) Improvising over ballads seems easy but can be quite difficult because of the slowwwwww tempo. Here we’ll start a ballad improvisation series that will help you tackle this issue with different improvisation strategies.
Stage 3 | Lesson: 29 | Step 15 – (Improvisation) In this step we’ll be integrating our first ballad improvisation strategies into the tune “The Nearness of You”.
Stage 3 | Lesson: 28 | Step 5 – (Improvisation) There is an age old saying that says, ‘If you want to learn something, do it.’ Essentially if you’re trying to learn how to run, all the walking in the world isn’t going to teach you. You got to do it! This is exactly why this exercise is so fantastic in producing results and helping students break through sticking points!
Stage 3 | Lesson: 27 | Step 3 – (Repertoire) We’re still building off of our previous rhythms by using sixteenth notes. This will be more challenging than the previous two but keep the tempo down at first so that you can actually utilize the 16th notes properly.
Stage 3 | Lesson: 26 | Step 3 – (Improvisation) This exercise from our continuous improv series could be the best rhythm of them all because triplets emulate the swing feel.