Member Lessons

	Chord Tone Soloing - by Tomas Trulsson Click Here For Notation Learning to use arpeggios will really help your lines when improvising. Arpeggios are key elements in music and this is a fun lesson on practicing those 1, 3, 5, and 7th notes. Enjoy!!! -- Tomas Trulsson ( www.TomasTrulsson.com )

	Learning From Others: Phrasing - by Keith Ridenhour Listening to how other players solo and learning to play phrases you like from those solos are key elements in your development. -- Keith Ridenhour ( www.Kride.net )

	The "Fort Knox" Of Licks - by Keith Ridenhour This exercise deals with the process of learning licks. -- Keith Ridenhour ( www.Kride.net )

	Learning Licks From Mr. Clean - by Keith Ridenhour An excellent approach to learning phrases and patterns from a song. This technique will help with ear training and give you ideas on how to pull out phrases from one song and use them in another when improvising. -- Keith Ridenhour ( www.Kride.net )

	Chromatic Approaches - by Tomas Trulsson Click Here For Concert Pitch Notation Click Here For Bb Notation Click Here For Eb Notation This lesson will give you a basic understand about chromatics and you will be able to write chromatic lines for playing and practicing. -- Tomas Trulsson ( www.TomasTrulsson.com )

Blues By The Step - by Randy Hunter Click Here For Concert Pitch Notation Click Here For Bb Notation Click Here For Eb Notation An introduction to chord change playing. You'll learn how to get inside the chord changes and play WITH the rhythm section instead of on top of the rhythm section. This method uses mostly common tones at the beginning with just a few changing tones. -- Randy Hunter ( www.randyhunterjazz.com )

	Jazz Inflections - by Brian Kane Click here for documentation The use of inflections is a critical element of playing in a jazz style. Jazz musicians use inflections constantly ot add color and feel to their playing. -- Brian Kane ( www.jazzpath.com )

Chord Learning & Scale Warmup - By Pete Thomas Click here for documentation Here is my favorite exercise, I'm a pro player, but this is useful for interJOMMedia/contestEntrieste use. This is a great warm up exercise, as well as being very useful for learning harmony. It consists of an ascending four-note (7th chord) arpeggio and a scale down which brings you neatly into the arpeggio built on the next scale tone. You should practice this in every key, I have written roman numerals rather than the chord name to help you get used to thinking about the function and structure of chords built on each tone of the scale. As you play the exercise, think of the note name for each arpeggio as well as the roman numeral: chord I = C major 7, chord II= Dminor7, chord III = E minor 7 etc. -- Pete Thomas ( www.petethomas.co.uk )

	Ingraining Licks - by Curtis Swift Click here for documentation When we listen to the jazz masters, we hear something we like and we want to incorporate that into our playing. Jerry Coker states that building a jazz vocabulary is like building a house, one brick at a time. In this case the bricks represent licks.... -- Curtis Swift ( www.saxsolos.com )

Tuning and Intonation - by Joel Shifflet Click here for documentation An instructor I once studied with told me that though someone may be able to play the world’s most challenging music, if they can’t make it sound good, no one is going to want to listen to it. Tuning and intonation is one of the most natural and difficult concepts to learn for many people. It has been my experience that many young players struggle with locking into the pitch when playing music. In this lesson I would like to address the original tuning process for individual or ensemble use with out the use of a tuner. Here I want to discuss six points to help you or your ensemble lock in the pitch. -- JoelShifflet

	Warmup-Lesson by Hannes Rössler Click here for documentation For me warming up has 2 important factors. The first is my sound which means the feeling for the right pitch, the right embouchure and the sound I like.