The Chord-Tone System

Thursday, April 10th, 2008 I just wanted to share my approach to learning to play over changes.  What has worked for me is to stick to playing the basic chord-tones: 1-3-5-7.  I take whatever tune I’m working on, and improvise at a very slow tempo, only with chord tones. The objective is to really get inside the changes, to really [...]