John Coltrane Cycle 4th/5th | Jazz Exercises on Bessie's Blues

The main take away from this video is that you can take any phrase
you love and make it your own.
Jazzduets takes the opening motif of John Coltrane´s Bessie's Blues that features the 3rd,
Root and the pungent 7th and applies these notes to the cycle of 4ths/5ths in different ways.
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00:40 - exercise 1 - Third, Root and b7
01:20 - exercise 2 - add in major 7
02:11 - exercise 3 - Displace notes by an octave
02:45 - exercise 4 - preceed phrase by minor 3rd
03:45 - exercise 5 - adding approach notes
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[@brandonwareing6830]

You know it's a great video when it makes you drop everything and head to the woodshed. Brb

[@SamMcGarrityIsOnYoutube]

Nick, you're a champion. I've purchased a few of your programs and they're phenomenal. As a guitarist looking to improv my improvisational language, your videos have come into my practice at just the right time. Thank you!!

[@mrfudd13]

Solid fundamental tutorial on basic theory/jazz.

[@JohnHorneGuitar]

I love these kinds of exercises that build on existing repertoire and encourage finding variations. This was wonderful. Thanks for sharing.

[@phillipwalsh7648]

Love your iterative approach to teaching. Makes learning so much easier. Thanks for a great lesson!

[@armandocairo5444]

Great again Nick! Thank You very much!

[@enricosenno7767]

Cool exercise! Cheers

[@javaclouds8017]

Beautiful

[@diegocorti6069]

Mi día iba mal hasta que subiste video :)

[@dennispowell9104]

Very educative

[@armandovillegas7937]

Thank you very much, most interesting.

[@GregoryPearsonMusic]

Very cool, great video - you make jazz accessible and provide encouragement to listen and try new ideas with teaching like this

[@kathleenhutton1566]

Excellent,thanks!!!

[@jsazparren]

GRAAAAAAACIAAAA!!!! Gran abrazo Nick, hermoso tu viedos como sieeeempre!!!!

[@muliercantatinecclesia5]

Great lesson! Thank you +

[@alfredhitchcocks6940]

Please continue the part 3 of Mr.Stevie Wonder's "You and I". I've been waiting for it for so long.

[@mattiameis3300]

Cool!! Thanks Nick!!!

[@kenmorley2339]

Thanks , such a useful lesson .

[@GeorgeGrydkovets]

Thank you for sharing this approach! The video is simple, clear, yet informative and practical.

[@ga77bo33]

So cool and clear 🎶👍🏽👊🏽 . Saludos! Desde la Ciudad de México

[@nephtalihernandez4907]

Thank you for the video

[@anneonym7346]

Brilliant and musical, as always with what you provide. Great job Nick ! Thx !

[@DaddySantaClaus]

Thanks nick, this is very helpful.
I deal with adhd so sometimes is hard to concentrate to practice more than 2min 😅

[@marie_laurencerichalet8241]

Merci mec.

[@tomaslabatut1594]

Amazing!!

[@vocestartup7656]

Great. Beautiful work.

[@germinal_ok]

so beautiful, simple and clear

[@jprnn]

Fantastic exercise! Thank you!

[@CharlesAustin]

Good stuff ..!!

[@andyokus5735]

You sounded good on the Db.

[@rockstarjazzcat]

Mi do te! Cheers, D

[@jotape84]

Maravilhoso

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[@bogdanrankovic6504]

Bravooo…

[@camilasanz7411]

gracias!!!!

[@mariomarinho6480]

Obrigado pela sua generosidade em compartilhar assuntos relevantes. Saudações do Brasil brasileiro de Jobim , Eumir deodato. Ivan Lins. Marcos Valle. João Donato. Milton Nascimento. Villa lobos . Etc

[@JazzDuets]

Ivan lins es mi padre!

[@sat1241]

@@JazzDuets you have enough technical knowledge to innovate jazz.
One problem I see in a lot of jazz is that a lot of innovate melodic ideas are on top of very conventional rhythms and chord progressions (and possible instrumentation elements)
It has to be a holistic approach to really evolve the music. That would have to start from the backbone of the music, the drums and bass first, then a chordal instrument. Then at the very end the soloist.
This doesn't mean leave this to the drummers and bassists. This means that the composer, who could play any instrument where to focus on the drums and bass first would have a better chance of advancing the music rather than conventional rhythm sections with some advanced or unusual melodic line played on top of them.

[@tkbg8164]

Thanks！

[@samuelemahtolo]

Great ! Thank you...

[@tropicvibe]

I'm wondering if piano players would also benefit from the same exercise, a lot of times i see stuff like this for horns but nothing for keys

[@PreneedProShop1]

A perfect opportunity to transcribe then build chords around it. You can do it one measure at a time.

[@MarleyHofmannRecords]

🤙🏽

[@ericandre6766]

this not some music . just a technique , mécanique . By this way , you kill your imagination , you become a robot , not a musician .

[@gerardbarrett8369]

To express your imagination you need a basic vocabulary to begin with

[@Yourbosskid]

So… if I play this exercise I’ll become a robot? Awesome 🦾