This SIMPLE exercise will transform your solos!

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Improvising, specifically through chord changes, is often taught in complex and vague ways. The good news for you is that it doesn't have to be this way! In this video I teach you 2 simple exercises (and give you a bunch more for free!) that will transform your improvising and will make soloing through chord changes much more clear.
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Learn to easily improvise through any chord changes with this FREE masterclass:
►www.davepollack.com/freemasterclass

[@LadyLove747]

Just subscribed to your channel, you’re absolutely amazing. 🤩 I love it!!!

[@DavePollack]

Thank you!!

[@JSDJerry]

Took the master class. Fantastic clear teacher. Going through it again, slowly, focusing on each six steps until I have them rock solid.
My only question is how you pick out the Diatonic “fill-in” notes? Is there a method? Same with diatonic “fill-in” notes?

[@rayjun5902]

Thank you Dave!

[@DavePollack]

You're very welcome!

[@maxhoecker]

I am seriously in love with your tone!

[@DavePollack]

Thank you!! 🙏

[@10MFAN]

Phenomenal video!!! Truly invaluable information explained so beautifully!!!
Great educator, great player, and a killer alto sound!!! 🎷🎷🎷❤️❤️❤️

[@DavePollack]

Thanks a lot Mark!

[@robinmarwick1982]

What a fantastic video...the best use of 11 minutes of my time to date. Your intro playing is phenomenal. Thanks.

[@DavePollack]

Wow - I really appreciate that! 🙏

[@nicolaycunha]

Pure gold! Thansk for sharing Sir!

[@DavePollack]

You’re welcome!

[@andrewerbach6278]

Superb. So simple yet seriously useful

[@DavePollack]

🙏

[@KAMELKERARESSI]

Good Idea,thank sir

[@sergiserrano307]

Thank you very much Dave, this vídeo is very good!!

[@PatrickJohn-k2h]

Thanks Dave

[@DavePollack]

You’re welcome!

[@robstevens9590]

Thanks Dave!

[@DavePollack]

You’re welcome!

[@RaineyDaysStudio]

Lord the tone. So nice

[@DavePollack]

Thank you!!

[@thomas_branson]

killing it at the moment Dave !! great stuff

[@DavePollack]

🙏🙏

[@nintendocovers242]

Just got to this section in SSI, it has really helped my confidence in improvising. Thanks

[@DavePollack]

Awesome! In SSI I go way more in depth than the masterclass and also go into all of the chromatic leading tones/enclosures as well.

[@nintendocovers242]

@@DavePollack Yeah there is a lot in that module.

[@lilia1987able]

Great

[@DavePollack]

Thanks!

[@awkwardshapes7072]

Thank you so much for always makin great vids

[@DavePollack]

You’re very welcome!

[@DavePollack]

Learn to easily improvise through any chord changes with this FREE masterclass:
►www.davepollack.com/freemasterclass

[@matt-darwin]

One of the biggest challenges I find that makes the voice leading process harder is remembering the sequence in order to get the landing notes sorted.
If I'm working on a tune, it sticks when I'm practising it; but a few months later when returning to it although i can sing it (and probably the bass notes), the chord names and sometimes even the functions escape me and I end up fumbling around for them.

[@rvangaal]

It might help to use numbers to remember the song. ATTYA starts with 6251 which is super common in many songs. It also often helps when you get stuck. 5 most often leads to 1 for example.

[@matt-darwin]

Yeah I do that. But then I play another song with another set of ii-V-Is, modulations etc and the older songs start to fade....

[@TAJSON]

nice

[@baijubanshi1835]

Thankyou sir you are God of poor saxophonist

[@DavePollack]

🙏

[@micahslobcrud5958]

Call me incompetent, but where's the pdf? I see no link.

[@DavePollack]

It’s in the pinned comment and the very top of the description - the free masterclass

[@pickinstone]

With all the videos coming out framed around ATTYA, I think the algorithm is trying to send me a message about the next jazz standard to practice!

[@DavePollack]

Hah, it's just a great song to work on voice leading, circle of 4ths, 2-5-1s, etc!

[@pickinstone]

@@DavePollack if you ever work your way up to Washington State, you'd have a whole stadium of music students eagerly listening to every word and note! Just saying... But if you do, visit us first ;)

[@DavePollack]

I’d love to come there! If you know someone I could contact there to set something up? Let me know!

[@hansmathiasthjomoe4817]

Was it «All the Things You Are?» (I didn’t cheat). Lovely playing. To me, to be able to improvise you need a special talent that few people have, like Paul Desmond, Charlie Parker, Bach and Mozart. Most “how to learn to improvise” are about learning licks, and that’s not improvising, that’s like learning another song. You have a very interesting approach. However, I thought I heard you playing over "All the Things You Are" at the start. Why did you play what you played? My guess is - you don't know?

[@magohipnosis]

It is nothing special. Anyone can improvise, just like learning a language.

[@JapalekeFlybirds]

@magohipnosis
More like learning Jazz Colloquialisms, ​you can't go from ABC to writing a Book

[@BoydWilson-g7e]

First!

[@BoydWilson-g7e]

This information is invaluable! Thank you for your efforts!

[@DavePollack]

You're very welcome! Really glad you like it.