Post Be-Bop Improv

Juampy Juarez teaches improvisation with a real modern approach he calls Post-Bebop Improv — a style born from the likes of John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Bill Evans, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, and George Russell. With its augmented sounds and big intervallic leaps, post-bebop language can feel complex and hard to reach; this lesson breaks down how to get there.

What's covered

• Augmented sounds from the modes of melodic minor, harmonic minor, and harmonic major — scales that contain the augmented triad widely used in modern jazz, in both solos and chords
• Big intervallic leaps as a melodic device
• Mixing this arsenal of colors for soloing and for composing
• Applying the techniques over popular jazz and bossa nova standards, and even blues progressions
• Kaleidoscope phrases: using two or more ideas per chord or per mode
• Technical advice plus the theory behind these complex modes

If your lines still live entirely in bebop vocabulary, this class shows how changing one thing in your solos can begin to change everything in the band.