You’ve mastered II-V-I progressions, explored altered scales, and navigated complex arpeggios. But when the harmony becomes dense, your melodic lines lose direction, and your choices feel mechanical. You sense the lack of a solid internal framework to improvise with clarity and purpose.
At Jazz Video Lessons, we help you build that structure through our advanced jazz theory course, a collection of jazz video lessons online designed specifically for seasoned musicians.
Under the guidance of Alex Terrier, our lessons help you fully integrate advanced jazz harmony, rhythm, and melodic construction to create solos that are expressive, coherent, and harmonically sophisticated
You’ve absorbed plenty of information, scales, substitutions, voicings, yet your improvisations often feel linear or static. That’s not a lack of talent. It’s a disconnect between your knowledge and its musical application.
Many advanced and intermediate jazz improvisation students plateau because they haven’t yet connected jazz theory advanced concepts to real-time decision-making. Knowing how an altered scale or diminished chord works is one thing; knowing when and how to use it within a harmonic context is another.
It’s common to know how to analyze a progression but struggle to apply that knowledge spontaneously while playing. This gap often comes from fragmented learning, where concepts are added without being woven into a coherent framework. At JVL, we help you build meaningful connections between concepts, understand their musical function, and integrate them progressively into your playing.
At Jazz Video Lessons, we never treat advanced jazz theory as abstract or disconnected. Each concept, tritone substitution, altered chords, diminished scales, or the super Locrian mode, is explored through its real function within jazz harmony and theory.
You’ll work on complex forms, modulating cadences, and standards with shifting tonalities or symmetric structures. Nothing is left to chance : every idea is tied to a real musical situation.
Our lessons go beyond analysis to help you internalize jazz theory advanced concepts into your actual playing.
Through real repertoire examples, direct application exercises, and solo analyses, you’ll learn to handle advanced tools : tensions, substitutions, modulating progressions with musical intention.
Theory becomes a tool for expression, not a rigid set of rules. Your advanced jazz improvisation evolves with greater clarity, richer harmony, and musical depth.
At JVL, modern jazz theory comes to life through real musical scenarios. You’ll study standards like Giant Steps or Inner Urge to deeply understand how to apply modal superimpositions, complex harmonic cycles, and advanced substitutions.
Each lesson begins with a well-known standard and shows you, step by step, how to turn advanced jazz theory into musical choices you can actually use, whether in improvisation, composition, or arranging.
With JVL’s advanced jazz theory courses, you’ll explore complex concepts like Coltrane changes, diminished scales, controlled alterations, and modulating cadences through:
Everything is designed to make each advanced concept directly applicable to your playing, with clarity, coherence, and musical purpose.
Behind Jazz Video Lessons is Alex Terrier, saxophonist, composer, and internationally respected educator. He holds a degree in performance and composition from Berklee College of Music and also graduated from the National School Of Music in France
He’s performed with the Grammy-nominated Mingus Big Band, and has taught over 1,000 students across the world since 2013.
What makes him different? He doesn’t just explain what to play, he teaches you how to think like a jazz improviser.
His strengths as a teacher:
Whether you follow his step-by-step courses or book a private online lesson with video replay included, you’ll feel supported, challenged, and inspired.
Start exploring the advanced level today :
Start now with some of our free jazz lessons and advanced jazz theory courses tailored for serious musicians who want to take their playing to the next level through advanced harmony and technique.
Create your free account and dive into your first lessons today. From the very beginning, you’ll start turning theory into a refined, expressive improvisational language.
Your next step in jazz isn’t about piling on more information, it’s about learning more deeply, more musically. Let Jazz Video Lessons be your guide.
Our intermediate jazz improvisation lessons
Use real jazz standards to apply theory. At JVL, each lesson combines video, PDF, and backing track so you can practice scales, phrasing, and rhythm directly in a musical context.
A basic understanding helps, but each course explains the theory step by step. You’ll learn to connect chords, use appropriate scales, and understand harmonic structure through practical examples.
JVL recommends standards like There Will Never Be Another You , perfect for exploring II-V-I, chord substitutions, and modal improvisation in a structured way.
Yes. Whether you play piano, saxophone, guitar, trumpet, bass, or drums, all improvisation concepts and exercises are designed to apply universally with clear, adaptable examples.
Our method is structured by level, led by a real teacher, and focused on developing your improvisational voice. You don’t just play licks, you learn to build real solos that tell a story.
