7 Way To Practice Bebop To See Quick Improvement 

Here are the 7 steps in the order of the video: 1) Practice bebop scales (including major 6 bebop scale) 2) Ensure you land on chord tones on every down beat 3) Approach chord tones from a half step below 4) Approach chord tones from a chord scale above 5) Slow practice to connect lines 6) Bebop lick integration 7) Integrate chord extensions

Can't believe these videos don't have more views. This is really helping me get breader :)

I've been looking for building blocks like this for 3 years. So glad to have found Jazz Piano School. Your podcasts/videos are amazing.

For the first time after years I found a video that helps me to understand that crazy thing that is jazz scales. Thank you very much!

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I've spent years trying to run before I knew how to walk. This basic stuff helps me so much. Also, your presentation is succinct. You don't ramble. I'm guessing you've been teaching a long time. Bravo, sir.

Great lesson Brent, building the foundation of Bebop.

This was well executed compared to most of these “how to” videos on bebop- well done ! That said, I personally take a more historical approach used by the progenitors of this music- lift/ transcribe (I had long conversation at a Barry Harris clinic about 30 years ago and asked his opinion on the best way to learn and assimilate this music and he said “that’s what Parker, Bud Powell, Navarro, Gillespie and he did, so that’s what I’ should do)…

Crystal-clear lesson, very helpful for focusing practice. You're a gifted player and teacher -- thank you for sharing.

Fantastic. I've never been able to wrap my mind around bebop, and am eager to start practicing now that I know what to practice!

Thanks man !This info is GOLD :) I've practiced your material today for 3 hours straight.

So many keys to unlocking the bebop style. My improvising has improved a lot in just a few days. Thanks!

Great teaching. Everything in one place and well explained, this is how it should go! Basics is the key. And freedom, the best point in the video

Arpeggios and scales are the currency of jazz soloing. John Coltrane practiced all the time. His mastery of scales and arpeggios were the basis upon which his signature ‘sheets of sound’ were built. Practicing scales and arpeggios need not be drudgery; enliven them with your own sense of musicality and let them be fun and interesting. That is, after all, what the musician does: he plays around with notes in a way that is pleasurable to hear.

Thanks for these great video! It’s amazing to confirm that a lot of these Elements included the bebop scale are present all the time also in chopin music, specially those special moments in waltzes or magic “tasty”progressions in different works of him! Music it’s all connected!

This video is amazing, I´ve been looking for an explanation like this for months on youtube, you are a great teacher, congratulations.

Thanks. My best lesson...

This is the single best thing i have come across this year... THANK YOU! Watching it at 1 in the morning but it's making me want to play piano

Can't believe this is free. Wow thanks!

I've been playing for years, in gospel/jazz, and this video finally gave me a better understanding of the Bebop scale, makes so much sense. I always like to know "WHY?" about most things, and this did it.

One of the best videos I've seen so far

Thank You great tutorial

Happy practicing 😎✌️

Splendid. Very clear. Convincing.

I'm a guitar player and this lesson opened my eyes in ways that actual guitar lessons haven't. Thank you sir..

Soooooo helpful. Thank you Brenden for the lego approach. If only I knew this decades ago!!

yeeeeeeeeeeeesssss... thank you... bebop here I come... Absolutely essential video

Wow these vids are so clear! Thank you! Could you share with me what software you are using to get the two keyboards in the view?

Thanks a lot now I understand more about the way to improve my skills for solos

very informative .thank you sir...

Thank you. Intellettual advance way for life and music. Thank you

when it comes to what you say, extensions like the b9, the other as in the beginning FAC doesn't sound that weird when you see it as the anticipation of the F Triad..so that's why the opposite is also true, for the more advanced situations, or players...The C-dorian bebop scale was adviced to stress the 1 3 5 7 but in practice sounds alot like a Ebmaj7 where the Lydian F triad is stressed, for a reason...I liked this lesson, and it reminded me of very important building blocks good from time to time return to the fundaments of Jazz or bebop if you want to refine..

ugh thank you for these lessons.. my jazz piano has improved so much just in the past couple days

Cool stuff!🤟🍷

Thank you... it's very helpful 😊

XD Beethoven scales! Hi I’m a jazz loving classical musician. Love the video I try to learn in both terms the bebop, the Beethoven scale, the Dom of F with passing LT of C, there’s so much that’s so specific, truly well-thought out for sounding good in jazz theory. Love it, uber practical. I do tell my students to mix up scales and chords with passing notes to sound good and they don’t believe how effective scales are! Also I love how you didn’t edit tinie tiny brainfart because it tells people you’re human ;) thx

great!! many thanks !!

Man, thank you. Really, thank you a lot.

Dear sir thank for teaching me how to play the jazz Bebop now I improve my playing the piano 🎹 I am just a pop Pianist great teacher greetings from Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

I play trom and this is exactly what I needed to know, epic vid

This is so relatable thank You 😂all the problems you mentioned are literally me😂Thanks

Thank you! Great lesson

really nice class! many thanks!!

"The chord tones are the warp, and the line you create, including approach notes, is the weft. Start weaving some bebop."--Terry "MadTiger" Miller

Awesomeness!

Excellent!!!!!

Absolutely cherish this video. Thank you so much for such a thorough lesson! One quick question. Do you recommend focusing on fingering? I’ve heard conflicting opinions but my thumb, pointer and middle seems like a go to. It looks like you use those as well for fast lines. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! And thanks again :)

Great video thanks!

Thank you so much! :D

Thank you. Great channel. 🙏

Thank you so much

Wonderful video!

This is such a great starting point to understanding the beast which is bebop.

Dope lesson, really helpful

amazing !!!!!!

Very helpful

Great lesson, thx for the tips.

In Jazz history the extensions tend n to not resolve anymore, so the result is that during improvisation a #11 hasn't to resolve but can stand on its own not diatonically solved but as part of a more polyphonic approach by thirds or even 6ths...

Thanka a lot:)

One of the best videos I've seen on you tube.. I will be playing this a lot. pianostyle100

Very helpful! Let's say you enclose the tonic of a C7 with d b c--is this passing maj7 okay over a dominant? Or what about enclosing the maj7, c bb b. This has a Bb note on it. Is this okay? (To me this is just another reason to use maj6 instead of maj7) Also: I notice these three note enclosures, if done as eighth notes, put the passing tones occasionally on down beats. I can get used to the sound, but is this acceptable?

You are right Brandon thx you for your lesson I enjoyed the lesson

Very useful, thank you for this. I have found that knowing standard American songs, I mean knowing them, no lead sheets, is so important. Spend a week on one song - Stella by Starlight or Autumn Leaves. The melody and changes completely internalised. Short musical links between phrases and at turnarounds start to naturally emerge in your playing in the way that you have expertly described. Must listen also. Monk playing standards, Hank Jones..the list is too long.

21:21 Sounds like the bridge of Wave

32:51 this really hits home XD

you said dorian has a "major 6th sound" arounf 11:30. you probly meant to say minor 6th. which i fully understand. when i teach guitar to students i always mess up numbers and letters. so hard to talk freely without mistake. thank you for the lesson! bebop is so challenging and beautiful.

If I were to describe a bebop scale only after watching 3 minutes of this and reading one webpage about it, I already want to say it my own way. Would it be okay to say that since a major scale from root to root is 8 notes, but only 7 of the notes are differrent because the top is the same as the bottom, that the workaround is to remove that 8th note and simply insert a note a half step below the 7th note ? That way 8th notes can fill the 4/4 measure without an eighth rest causing a hole...and of course this keeps us from reaching the root note again before the start of the next measure.

Wow, this really helped my improv skills! And for free?????

Looking for this video for days. Actually respects the beginner and slows it down while he's explaining things - but still good for those more advanced in the scales. Still don't understand when they go arpeggio on a chord and end up on the 9th but they tell us the 9th is not a chord tone but it sounds like a downbeat when he hits D on a C7 chord. And the approach above and below hits two non chord tones so is there any downbeat on either one? That's usually when I crash and burn, even playing slow.

Ever watched Boondocks! ME: YEAH! The Outro that's Bebop😋

Point one bebop scales 5m to 7m 30s demonstrates on 2 5s in f sharp min then f min maybe thinking four m davis.

Can u teacher chord progressions along with extensions?

if you want to prove that to yourself go start studying the Jazz Tunes, then you'll find that first a m3 was stress on a m7b5 Autumn Leaves, later Tunes use merely the 11th on m7b5 and later the 9 on m7b5 or even the 6, even the maj7 on a m7b5 is played by piano players(Em7b5 is related to the dominant C79 if you change C79 to #9 we understand the D# in a em7b5 situation...(depends on melodie most of the time) will be stressed the 6 on a m7 chord is called an avoid tone maybe that's why it isn't avoided at all but a nice clash is wanted often by jazz composers, also the Cats use aspects of there own development of that moment an put in a composition to be safe and to be able to look at them from a different angle..

...so let me see if I've got this right, Brandon. As long as I only play songs with no chords, I can solo on any note?

Fingering on the bebop scales is somewhat complicated. I wonder if one should work out and practice a set fingering for each, or whether one should get used to improvising the fingering itself, as it were.

What does "bop" mean ? Thank you.

Subtitles in Español will be great..🙂

you know what really holds me back in my bebob scales?...the damn fingering...in all the different scales...I guess ya just have to play it with any fingering in the heat of solos?

Well Kenny Wheeler one of the most Harmonically adept and sophistcated players/composers RIP freely admitted that he couldn't really play bop. I mean he could play over any set of changes but wasn't gonna sound like Dizzy. If you're playing melodic lines based on some kinda counting game well I've never understood that.To me it's a blank canvas. I'm not against practicing any particular way but each player needs to discover how to see, hear, access harmony in a useful way. it's mind blowing how people who think differently do this..

I honestly liked the non chord tones on the down beats better

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God i Love bebop

Terrific job Would like index of videos Not iPad savvy

How good is this guy at explains stuff?👍

why are you playing the b in the c mixolydian

🎉 thank you for sharing 🎉 hope you are well God loves you deeply shalom 🤗🐼♥️✝️💐 Philippians 4'8

Not sure I can add anything except that your fluency is such that you "often enuf" forgot what you had just played, and yet thought so little of correcting it for the final publication because what difference would it make? Except that I was one of those kids who did not see the "lego" (TM) blocks for years.... It has taken me 35 plus years of books and lessons and what all and even complaining to the great JA from Indiana (from whom I got a personal and caring response) until I realized that the building blocks are a CRUCIAL element of whatever we might call "jazzy" lines! For example, I saw, in my Omnibook of Bird solos, notes that were NEAR chord tones and such, but I never figgered out that the chord tones were on the downbeats, and I certainly did not see the enclosure process, WHICH, WHEN YOU THINK OF IT, was just like the kind of idea that could be spread underground among hip jazzers back in the day who had to fight blatant racism and ALSO try to be relevant, so as to make money! Peace be upon those musicians who fought to express themselves in new ways. I honor your gifts! As Christian McBride said in recent years: "Bebop IS modern language."

The L I C C

Wonder if your father remembers Mme Fourel or Jason Horowitz

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The fundamental principle on which you are referring to is not even a be bop principle. It's called The principle of describing the chords melodically. The inventor of those principles are based on J S. Bach nothing new as far as it concerns be bop on that respect. What was new, was the swing feel, plus 8 note scales plus alterations to those scales, and in the idiomatic language of the phrase in all. So the phrasing is the most important element of a language after all. With just the words you may easily create a different language from the one you took the words from.

Now the Joke starts to be complete John Coltrane invented his Coltrane changes to sound different eveybody know that he succeeded, but the ironic thing is that he absolutely didn't want to use or sound like Parker like every saxophonist did in his time or tried even, Now comes the ironic part: for Giant Steps Coltrane made his own lick but beyond his main1235 maj penta, he used as you just at 29:00minutes said: FE Eb G D C and call it totally with right and truely a Parker Lick, Now this particulair Lick Coltrane "invented"(cryptomense we call that, taking somthing that somenelse made befor you, not knowing that...) this idea as plan C or D to approac his changes, so this chromatic, thank you mister Baker lick (see the lesson of Mikko Hiilden) with the same nam ethat lesson "thank you mister Baker"

Just watched video but forgot to write tips down in order to recall later. Can you, or someone, list them below in just simple bullet points?

Your videos are just at the right spot for me, I always get bored because they go all over the pentatonic scale and explain virtually nothing useful, or they go at a speed thats impossible to follow

Did not understand no 5 with ur left hand

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