Melodic Embellishment

Just love this approach. Practicing the embellishments demonstrated opens up a world of options when soloing and gives the improvisation a sence of motion.

Yesterday I watched your Mike's Master Class on embellished chord tones. It's definitely the most insightful discussion of this topic I've seen, and your demonstrations really make the concepts come alive. The point that jazz is more about embellished chord tones than chord scales is such a key concept, and it's really lacking in a lot of formal music programs. Even looking at a transcription from the standpoint of chord tone and approach notes instead of just mapping to chord scales will lead to much different conclusions. Thanks for the fine class.

This lesson has added so much to my playing and I've only begun to scratch the surface of all the possibilities it offers. Once you start practicing the embellishments Sheryl discusses you start hearing sounds the greats using in there lines. You don't learn lines you learn how to create your own lines that sound like classic Jazz.