From the course: Jazz Piano: 3 Basics of Improvisation

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Using all the tools on extended 2-5-1, part 1

Using all the tools on extended 2-5-1, part 1

From the course: Jazz Piano: 3 Basics of Improvisation

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Using all the tools on extended 2-5-1, part 1

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- Let's put a bunch of this stuff together now on our extended two-five. What I'm going to do is I'm going to play our G--, two-five C-Major. (keys played) D-Minor Seven to G-Seven to C. And I'm going to try to use everything that we've talked about so far. First, isolated, so we can hear what it is, and then I'm going to go ahead and start mixing it up. The tools that we have available at this time, let's remember to think melodically as we play. We're not just here to-- (keys played) We might do a little bit of that. See if you can make some phrases out of this stuff. Make little hooks. (keys played) And follow up on them like that. Some of our motivic playing which applies no matter what technique we're putting on the chord. We're going to play the Bop Scales alone a little bit. We're going to play the Approach Patterns alone for a pass of this. We're going to play the pentatonics alone. We have our arpeggiated triads, again on the G-seven. That would be a E-triad, and an E-Flat…

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