From the course: Jazz Piano: 3 Basics of Improvisation
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Practicing over your first 2-5-1
From the course: Jazz Piano: 3 Basics of Improvisation
Practicing over your first 2-5-1
- We have the tools we need to play a really nice solo on our two fives now to D. Again, the E minor seven, A seven, to D. It's important to remember as we work on these this is kind of some old school knowledge. It's not something that is on the radio that much anymore, this kind of progression but we are going to take the principles of this and we're going to use it to create some really cool, very sophisticated lines. So, mastery of the two fives is really an important skill. What we're going to do by way of starting to get these things integrated into that progression is we're going to play something that we've got under our fingers like the bob scale. We're going to try to create a little bit of a phrase out of it and then when we get to the next chord we're going to hinge it together by playing one of our approach patterns to a chord tone of the next chord. So. (piano music) This is going to be the expanded two fives. These are two bars of E minor seven, two bars of A seven…
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