Twelve Tone Row in Improvisation

Juampy Juarez shows how to bring twelve-tone row techniques — Arnold Schoenberg's compositional system, expanded by Alban Berg and Anton Webern — into jazz improvisation. Rather than abstract theory, he teaches simple formulas for using 12-tone patterns over familiar progressions and standards.

What's covered

• The four forms of a 12-tone row: prime, inversion, retrograde, and retrograde inversion
• Trichords and integer notation (013, 014, 015, 027), plus augmented and quartal triads
• Octave displacement to turn rows into better-sounding lines, and which trichords sit inside or outside a dominant chord
• Applying these devices to blues in C, C minor, F, and G, plus ii-V-I sequences
• Examples over standards including "Stella by Starlight" and "Solar"
• Two-line counterpoint ideas that extend his "Contrapuntal Improvisation" masterclass — Jimmy Wyble fans will find new two-line licks

An intermediate class for players curious about atonal devices in a jazz context. As Juampy puts it, this is the tip of the iceberg of 12-tone technique and theory. Note: this class was previously released in Spanish.