Exercise 1 Playing ExampleOk, now it is your turn. Practice just playing and improvising the root of each chord.
Remember to use your major scales to play over Major Chords.
Exercise 2: Playing pattern 12, 12, over each chord.
For exercise 2, we are going to be playing a pattern of 1,2 in eighth notes over each chord. It will look like this:
Play the above pattern over the entire chord progression and then improvise using only the
1,2 1,2 pattern.
Listen to the playing example below before you start to work on Exercise 2
Exercise 2 Playing ExampleOk, now it is your turn!
Remember to use your major scales to play over Major Chords.
Exercise 3: Playing pattern 1232, 1232, over each chord.
For exercise 2, we are going to be playing a pattern of 1232, 1232, in eighth notes over each chord. It will look like this:
Play the above pattern over the entire chord progression and then improvise using only the
1232 pattern.
Listen to the playing example below before you start to work on Exercise 3
Exercise 3 Playing ExampleOk, now it is your turn!
Remember to use your major scales to play over Major Chords.
Exercise 4: Playing pattern 1235, 1235 over each chord.
For exercise 4, we are going to be playing a pattern of 1235, 1235 in eighth notes over each chord. It will look like this:
Play the above pattern over the entire chord progression and then improvise using only the
1235 pattern.
Listen to the playing example below before you start to work on Exercise 4
Exercise 4 Playing ExampleOk, now it is your turn!
Remember to use your major scales to play over Major Chords.
Exercise 5: Playing pattern 1357, 1357 over each chord.
For exercise 5, we are going to be playing a pattern of 1237, 1237 in eighth notes over each chord. It will look like this:
Play the above pattern over the entire chord progression and then improvise using only the
1357 pattern.
Listen to the playing example below before you start to work on Exercise 5
Exercise 5 Playing ExampleOk, now it is your turn!
Remember to use your major scales to play over Major Chords.
Exercise 6: Playing pattern 1357,6543 over each chord.
For exercise 6, we are going to be playing a pattern of 1357, 6543 in eighth notes over each chord. It will look like this:
Play the above pattern over the entire chord progression and then improvise using only the
1357,6543 pattern.
Listen to the playing example below before you start to work on Exercise 6
Exercise 6 Playing ExampleOk, now it is your turn!
Remember to use your major scales to play over Major Chords.
Exercise 7: Playing a Major scale over each chord.
For exercise 7, we are going to be playing a Major scale in eighth notes over each chord. It will look like this:
Play the above scale pattern over the entire chord progression.
Listen to the playing example below before you start to work on Exercise 7
Exercise 7 Playing Example.Ok, now it is your turn!
Remember to use your major scales to play over Major Chords.
Exercise 8: Starting To Improvise!
For exercise 8, we are actually going to being to improvise, but...with some restrictions. For this exercise, you are only going to be improvising using Quarter Notes.
Listen to the playing example below before you start to work on Exercise 8
Exercise 8 Playing ExampleOk, now it is your turn!
Remember to use your major scales to play over Major Chords.