Let Grammy Award nominee Alex Terrier help you gain the knowledge and confidence that will nurture your creativity. Music is a language and you need a clear understanding of its shaping forces. With his guidance you will be able to make choices and create ideas in the cognitive puzzle that is jazz improvisation.
Here is a template that can help you find what you need. For clarity we have defined 5 levels but most of the time a student is navigating between at least 2 levels. It is not rare that someone might check some prerequisites from a higher level and lack some lower level knowledge.
For each level you will find curated content: free lessons, JVL courses, recommended standards, and masterclasses by some of the finest jazz musicians in the world.
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Jazz standards are the core of jazz education. Developing your repertoire of the essentials tunes will allow you to play with more fun and freedom.
To understand and hear a bass line is a surprisingly overlooked skill. Extremely helpful to memorize songs and hear harmonic progressions.
Learn: how to voice lead triads (workbook with 8 exercises in all keys), how to apply these on a standard (exercises + an etude).
Great course to improve your instrument technique, understanding of the triads in a tonal context and how to improvise with these triads. A must for level 1 improv.
This course is designed to develop your mastery and understanding of chord scales and target notes. This covers levels 3 and 4
Become a much stronger musician in 7 weeks with these progressive series of hands and feet rhythmic exercises.
Developing a strong rhythmic feel and creativity is critical for us improvisers.
From beginners to advanced students.
In-depth studies of the solo transcriptions from the omnibook. Understand better, play better, improvise better!
Learn all the necessary information to understand how the musical system works. You’ll see, it is not that complicated!
Study each track of the album! Analysis of solos, improvisation techniques, exercises and more. In English and French.
Learning foundational standards will help you understand the language and concepts used across the board.
Using major triads over each diatonic degree of the major scale will create melodic shapes that will be “out” but always with an “in” element!
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