{"id":99080,"date":"2020-06-12T16:17:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T20:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/?p=99080"},"modified":"2020-06-12T16:17:44","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T20:17:44","slug":"free-video-lesson-on-the-new-ultimate-ii-v-i-primer-major-keys-by-steve-neff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/free-video-lesson-on-the-new-ultimate-ii-v-i-primer-major-keys-by-steve-neff\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Video Lesson on The New Ultimate II-V-I Primer-Major Keys by Steve Neff"},"content":{"rendered":"

I decided to offer a free video lesson on my book The New Ultimate II-V-I Primer-Major Keys (Digital PDF Book)<\/a> for everyone. I have sold many of these books and really want to make sure that everyone is getting the most they can out of them. \u00a0You can consider this an “overview” lesson on the various chapters in the book. \u00a0I cover tips on the best way to use the book as well as demonstrating the various exercises so you can have a better understanding of how to use the book.\u00a0 Here is a description of the book:<\/p>\n

The purpose of this book is to give beginner to intermediate jazz improvisers a complete method to learn all the notes in a II-V-I progression in a systematic and organized way.\u00a0 I have written this book so that it starts with the simplest of exercises and progresses to more advanced exercises as you work through the book.\u00a0 It is very important that you take the time to fully master each exercise before moving on to the next one.\u00a0 For example, if you are having trouble playing through the 12 keys II-V-I play along with just roots and thirds, then it doesn\u2019t make sense to move on to the 1, 3 and 5 exercises.\u00a0 You will just become overloaded and frustrated.\u00a0 On the other hand, if you master the root and thirds lesson then when you add the 5th to the exercises you can just focus all of your attention on learning just the 5th.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The New Ultimate II-V-I Primer-Major Keys (Digital PDF Book) 14.99<\/a><\/p>\n

The book is divided up into 10 lessons. Each lesson is focused on adding one note to each chord of a II-V-I progression. I give you a number of patterns for each new note that is added.\u00a0 The goal of these patterns is to master the new note in relationship with each chord and to add these new notes to the notes mastered in the previous lessons.\u00a0 I\u2019ve written the patterns out in a number of different combinations that I think sound good.\u00a0 Mastering these patterns will give you a multitude of melodic options while improvising.<\/em><\/p>\n

After the patterns in each lesson, I give you 10 examples of how to apply 10\u00a0 different approaches to the patterns already studied.\u00a0 These approaches help to connect the chord tones from measure to measure as well as multiplying the various lines and ideas you can use over the progression.\u00a0 Although this section only gives you 10 examples, you should apply the approaches liberally to the patterns studied so that you can come up with your own lines and melodies.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The last section of each lesson is focused on giving you some ideas to use to create more melodic lines.\u00a0 Many times students who are studying and learning patterns have trouble making the jump from pattern to melodic improvisation.\u00a0 For this reason, in each lesson I give you 5 melodic lines based off of the patterns and approaches and give you some insights into why they sound good and how I created them.\u00a0 Your goal should not be to just regurgitate patterns while you solo but rather to use the patterns and ideas to truly improvise. \u00a0 Each practice session should end with a time of improvisation where you try to use what you have learned to create your own lines and melodies.\u00a0 I stress this concept throughout the book.-Steve Neff<\/em><\/p>\n

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The New Ultimate II-V-I Primer-Major Keys (Digital PDF Book) 14.99<\/a><\/p>\n

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