Concepts For Improvisation

By Brad Carlton

Welcome to Concepts For Improvisation! I have been teaching and playing professionally for nearly 50 years. In that time I've experienced students and players at many levels who deal with the "fear ... more

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February 13, 2019 Episode 21: Eliminate Your Fear of Improvisation - Chord Changes (Part 4)
In this episode we will now extend each chord by a third. The Em7 (1, b3, 5, b7) will become Em9 (1, b3, 5, b7, 9). The Dmaj7 (1, 3, 5, 7) will become Dmaj9 (1, 3, 5, 7, 9). Each of these extended chords (diatonic 9th chords) can be viewed as a slash chord. Em9 = Gmaj7/E and Dmaj9 = F#m7/D.
This is a short clip from the full podcast where Brad goes into greater detail about this subject and more. You can subscribe to the full podcast and also receive the PDF practice sheets and MP3 backing tracks for only $5 per month on Patreon.com. Brad Carlton also has over 110 guitar courses available at TrueFire.com.
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/conceptsforimprovisation/posts
TrueFire: https://truefire.com/educators/brad-carlton/e7
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10min
February 05, 2019 Episode 20: Eliminate Your Fear of Improvisation - Chord Changes (Part 3)
In this episode we will apply pentatonic scales to our bichordal vamp of Em7 to Dmaj7.
This is a short clip from the full podcast where Brad goes into greater detail about this subject and more. You can subscribe to the full podcast and also receive the PDF practice sheets and MP3 backing tracks for only $5 per month on Patreon.com. Brad Carlton also has over 110 guitar courses available at TrueFire.com.
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/conceptsforimprovisation/posts
TrueFire: https://truefire.com/educators/brad-carlton/e7
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14min
January 30, 2019 Episode 19: Eliminating Your Fear of Improvisation - Chord Changes (Part 2)
In this episode we will be discussing Em7 and Dmaj7 permutations.
This is a short clip from the full podcast where Brad goes into greater detail about this subject and more. You can subscribe to the full podcast and also receive the PDF practice sheets and MP3 backing tracks for only $5 per month on Patreon.com. Brad Carlton also has over 110 guitar courses available at TrueFire.com.
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/conceptsforimprovisation/posts
TrueFire: https://truefire.com/educators/brad-carlton/e7
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11min
January 23, 2019 Episode 18: EliminateYour Fear of Improvisation - Chord Changes (Part 1)
In the previous 17 podcasts, we have examined various approaches for soloing over major and minor family chords. All the jam tracks have been static vamps which allowed you to focus on the tonality of the mode (ear training) as well as enabling you to develop facility on your instrument (technique) of the appropriate mode. Now we are going to raise the bar and look at soloing over bi-chordal (two chords with different roots) vamps.
This is a short clip from the full podcast where Brad goes into greater detail about this subject and more. You can subscribe to the full podcast and also receive the PDF practice sheets and MP3 backing tracks for only $5 per month on Patreon.com. Brad Carlton also has over 110 guitar courses available at TrueFire.com.
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/conceptsforimprovisation/posts
TrueFire: https://truefire.com/educators/brad-carlton/e7
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10min
January 15, 2019 Episode 17: Eliminating Your Fear of Improvisation - Major
Thank you for listening to the Concepts For Improvisation podcast. In this lesson we are going to explore some soloing options over a major 7 tonality. This is a short clip from the full podcast where Brad goes into greater detail about this subject and more. You can subscribe to the full podcast and also receive the PDF practice sheets and MP3 backing tracks for only $5 per month on Patreon.com. Brad Carlton also has over 110 guitar courses available at TrueFire.com.
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/conceptsforimprovisation/posts
TrueFire: https://truefire.com/educators/brad-carlton/e7
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13min
January 09, 2019 Episode 16: Eliminate Your Fear of Improvisation - Minor (Part 9)
In this podcast, I will discuss the concept of neighbor tones and chromaticism.
This is a short clip from the full podcast where Brad goes into greater detail about this subject and more. You can subscribe to the full podcast and also receive the PDF practice sheets and MP3 backing tracks for only $5 per month on Patreon.com. Brad Carlton also has over 110 guitar courses available at TrueFire.com.
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/conceptsforimprovisation/posts
TrueFire: https://truefire.com/educators/brad-carlton/e7
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10min
January 02, 2019 Episode 15: Eliminate Your Fear of Improvisation - Minor (Part 8)
This podcast will examine other minor scales that may applied in improvisational situations.
This is a short clip from the full podcast where Brad goes into greater detail about this subject and more. You can subscribe to the full podcast and also receive the PDF practice sheets and MP3 backing tracks for only $5 per month on Patreon.com. Brad Carlton also has over 110 guitar courses available at TrueFire.com.
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/conceptsforimprovisation/posts
TrueFire: https://truefire.com/educators/brad-carlton/e7
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10min
December 25, 2018 Episode 14: Eliminate Your Fear of Improvisation - Minor (Part 7)
In episode #13, we utilized the diatonic triads as our source material for soloing over the B Dorian jam tracks. We will now explore the diatonic 7th chords in the key of A which is the parent scale of B Dorian.
This is a short clip from the full podcast where Brad goes into greater detail about this subject and more. You can subscribe to the full podcast and also receive the PDF practice sheets and MP3 backing tracks for only $5 per month on Patreon.com. Brad Carlton also has over 110 guitar courses available at TrueFire.com.
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/conceptsforimprovisation/posts
TrueFire: https://truefire.com/educators/brad-carlton/e7
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9min
December 17, 2018 Episode 13: Eliminate Your Fear of Improvisation - Minor (Part 6)
Podcast #12 utilized the Bm (I) and A (bVII) triads out of the B Dorian mode as an improvisational approach. This provided the following tones as analyzed over the B root.
Bm:    B(1), D(b3), F#(5)
A:       A(b7), C#(9), E(11)
This lesson will explore all the remaining adjacent triads as source material for soloing over the B Dorian jam tracks. All triad components are analyzed over the B root.
This is a short clip from the full podcast where Brad goes into greater detail about this subject and more. You can subscribe to the full podcast and also receive the PDF practice sheets and MP3 backing tracks for only $5 per month on Patreon.com. Brad Carlton also has over 110 guitar courses available at TrueFire.com.
Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/conceptsforimprovisation/posts
TrueFire:  https://truefire.com/educators/brad-carlton/e7
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8min
December 11, 2018 Episode 12: Eliminate Your Fear of Improvisation - Minor (Part 5)
In Episode #11 you were presented with the concept of pentatonic scale subsets within the parent major scale of any mode.  In this lesson, we are going to limit our soloing approach to the diatonic triads which reside inside the major scale.
This is a short clip from the full podcast where Brad goes into greater detail about this subject and more. You can subscribe to the full podcast and also receive the PDF practice sheets and MP3 backing tracks for only $5 per month on Patreon.com. Brad Carlton also has over 110 guitar courses available at TrueFire.com.
Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/conceptsforimprovisation/posts
TrueFire:  https://truefire.com/educators/brad-carlton/e7
...more
9min

FAQs about Concepts For Improvisation:

How many episodes does Concepts For Improvisation have?

The podcast currently has 61 episodes available.