Let’s continue our work on improvising by looking at your first complete II-V-I chord progression!
This is the 6th lesson in my series on improvising on the saxophone and you’ll find all on my other videos on my YouTube channel or in previous blog posts.
The II-V-I chord progression is arguably the most important progression in jazz music, and so let’s take a deep dive into it, with lots of exercises to work on to help build your accuracy and fluency when improvising.
Let’s get to it!
In the first two sections of this video we cover the chords of the II-V-I progression, their arpeggios and the related modes, with the exercises to get you playing them fluently and in time to the backing track.
In the second two sections of the video I introduce the concept of Guidetones and get you working on them, again to the backing track. Then just to finish, a bit of a reward(!) with some improvising over the complete II-V-I.
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Best wishes, Nathan