This is an exciting lesson to master!  In this lesson I teach you how to use some diminished lines  over V7b9 chords as well as V7 chords in general.  In past diminished scale lessons I have given you quite a few diminished patterns but in this lesson I make it a bit more practical by Read More…

Here is another great lesson on playing outside the changes.  When I was younger I would always get asked by other musicians what these lines were I was using on the fast sections of my solos. I would always tell them it was just a combination of chromaticism with 3 tonic stuff used in a Read More…

This is the next lesson is my series on playing outside of the changes. In this lesson I have developed a system based off of the common minor pentatonic scale that you know already. In this lesson I talk about how this scale can be altered to change the sound of your lines to be Read More…

This lesson is a continuation of my “Playing Outside-Chromaticism 1 lesson. I give you 4 more patterns and finish talking about the concept of adding chromatic lines into your solos. I talk about mixing the lines together and the importance of resolving them the right way. I demonstrate all the exaples over a E Minor Read More…

This is the first of many lessons that will deal with playing outside of the chord changes. In this lesson I talk about using some simple chromatic patterns to create lines that create a modern “outside”sound to your solos. I teach how to practice these lines and also how to play them so they don’t Read More…

Playing random notes might seem like one of the easiest concepts to master but it is actual one of the hardest.  In this lesson I talk in depth about how to practice playing random notes to shift in and out of key centers. I demonstrate how use this technique to play “outside” and then resolve Read More…

In this lesson I introduce a method I use with students to shift in and out of a tonality by shifting to a different pentatonic in the 4th measure of a phrase. I talk about 2 pentatonics I use often to take a line “outside” a minor tonality as well as two pentatonics I use Read More…