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This area is for those of you who want lessons dealing with "playing outside". I first heard this term while I was in college. It refers to when a player takes his solo  outside of the standard chord changes and sound. Many times it sounds a bit dissonant and even wrong. The art of this type of playing is being able to weave in an out of the changes creating dissonance and consonance as you improvise.


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Playing Outside-3 Tonic Chromaticism Lesson 248 $10.00 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 chromati

Playing Outside-Altered Pentatonics 1 (Audio & PDF) 051 $10.00 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

Playing Outside-Chomaticism 2 (Audio & PDF) 038 $10.00 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

Playing Outside-Chromaticism 1 (Audio & PDF) 029 $10.00 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

Playing Outside-Random Note Lesson (Video & Audio) 211 $10.00 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 techn

Playing Outside-Shifting Pentatonics (Video) 098 $10.00 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

Playing Outside-The Major Minor Blues Scale Lesson 1 270 $10.00 This is an exciting lesson! Earlier this week I was working on a song that is in D minor. I was playing over it with my typical blues scale type lines when I decided to add a few notes to it. As I was playing around with it I realized that this was a g

The Altered Scale (Audio & PDF) 042 $10.00 The altered scale is one of the hippest sounding scales in jazz. Any modern jazz player that you might listen to usually has a thorough knowledge of this scale.In this lesson I talk in detail about the use of the "altered" scale. i break down the theor



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