#scale exercises

This video covers some great melodic structures that you can practice as scale exercises and add to your vocabulary. I find that them extremely useful and you will also hear them being used in a lot of especially more modern jazz solos by people ranging from Michael Brecker via Peter Bernstein to Kurt Rosenwinkel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxVF86KmLAk&index=2&list=PLWYuNvZPqqcEn2RIZLsqHyKl08FfAHBYO&t=0sTriads are one of the strongest melodies that we have and in this video I am going to show you some triad exercises and how you can use them to make strong and more interesting triad jazz lines. Triads are used all the time in jazz by people from Wes Montgomery to Kurt Rosenwinkel and Lage Lund and everybody else. For each of the triad ideas I will go over a lick using the inversion or pattern and I will also give you some exercises. The exercises will test your abilities with both triads and scales since some of them are really difficult to play. Especially the Spread Triads exercise are tricky for your right hand, but the inversions are also good for having an overview of your music theory when it comes to triads.

Hope you like it!

Hope you like it!

One of the most useful lessons I have ever learned on the guitar was how to use triads and Mini Positions on the fretboard. When I was 15 the father of my best friend had an Irish country blues band, and the guitarist was a guy called Dave Blackwell who taught me how to use triads to make riffs and to improvise in solos and rhythm comping. This was one of the most profound guitar tips that I ever received and I can honestly say that hardly a day goes by where I don’t use these mini positions when playing the guitar.