Publisher: Advance Music
A step by step method for learning to play over changes for all instruments
Running Time: 62 minutes
Series: Inside Improvisation

Inside Improvisation – Melodic Structures, is the first in a series of DVDs which describe a simple and pragmatic approach to improvisation. While focussing on the jazz idiom, the techniques discussed are applicable to many styles of music and all instruments, be it rock guitar, jazz saxophone, or the solos of the fusion keyboardist. The system presented in this volume offers a tangible pathway to inside the creative imagination by getting inside harmony, inside the changes.

PART 1
Section I: Four Note Groupings 1-5
Section II: Mixing Up Permutations
Section III: Visualization
Section V: Editing SectionVI: Key Centers
Section VII: Inversions

PART 2
Section IX: Four Note Groupings 5-9
Section X: Avoid Notes
Section XI: Upper Structure Groupings 9-13
Section XII: Additional Groupings
Section XIII: Mixing Groupings