This is basically the key to good melodies in general - it's what most good melodies do. Good improvisation should largely sound like a melody you'd want to hum or sing.

Second chorus starts with “My Heart stood still” quote✌🏻☺️

Wow! This is great material! For years I have been trying to get a Dexter vibe via stealing complete ii-V-I licks and practicing them in all 12 keys, however reducing the approach to melodic cells makes so much more sense. What an epiphany! Thank you sir!

Second chorus "hook" is a quote of the song "My Heart Stood Still", by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. DG is the kind of genius that can call upon these things at will.

I'm really digging all this Dexter material! I am a big fan of Dexter Gordon, these videos are helping me understand WHY I love his music so much. Your analysis are straightforward and easy to understand. Thanks so much.

The "cell" approach has been the only way I've been able to absorb phrases in the jazz language, and here you've done it with one of my favorites!! I'm definitely purchasing! (Please do the same with Hank Mobley.) ;-)

This is gold👍🏼. Well written! Thank you

Love the lesson, and love your playing!

Great content here, so happy I found this. Keep up your fabulous work!

Excellent analysis, Josh. Thank you for all the time that you put on this video. Awesome!

I can't believe I've never seen your videos before! I was about to start writing everything down, and then you said there's an ebook. Instant purchase. I have to say, I appreciate being given all the information up front. Thank you 🤙

Good stuff,mate. Doggin' it🌹🌹⭐🌹🌹

amazing work. thank you.

I just stumbled upon your Dexter series and I'm loving it, as a big Dexter fan myself which can be seen by my avatar. Thank you for your work. Subscribed!

Josh, I’m going out on a limb and say that I think your tutorials are some of the best out there. I’ve subscribed to many and there are some that are really great and helpful. I never had the opportunity to attend any of the great jazz institutions, I’ve learned the old school way, a lesson here and there and listening to the greats and trial and error. Learning this way often times you don’t learn in the right succession, maybe learning something advanced before a basic so therefore harder to understand. Takes longer to advance. Your method covers all the bases. You explain the do’s and don’t’s and the why’s then illustrate. It’s like going from one great classroom to another. It’s impossible not to learn from you. I thank you x a million. There’s no way I won’t become a better player with your lessons.

Excellent, clear and useable info and analysis....thanks

Great video!

thanks for this. Really great stuff. Btw, the "hook" at the second chorus is a paraphrase of the first few bars of "My Heart Stood Still"

I’m trying to get better at jazz and ur videos are the best I’ve found on yt!

Good to see that Josh, Dexter Gordan and Still Life have come together to make another snappy and informative video.

Great analysis. You make it sound so easy. OK time for the shed.

Great video

Great video! I've heard lots of bad advice as I tried to figure out how to play jazz like memorizing licks but this is a much better process

I always wondered why I loved Dexter's solo on Blue Bossa (on Biting the Apple) so much. Now I see that it's full of little memorable hooks that I like to sing. It really breaks it up into memorable parts

Wow ! Great Lesson …more videos on melodic cells please any artist from bebop to modern ..

Love the face when you're listening to Dexter.

This video made it click what it means when they say "you can tell who's playing just by hearing" because, now i realize, someone like Dexter Gordon has these melodic cells, so if you knew this, you could spot them in a solo and tell its him, cus of his vocabulary! I always thought of it as more of a timbre and sound thing..Great vid man love it

"Amorphous Blob of Music" had me rolling

You actually do sound like Dexter at the end of this video. Kudos!

The 2nd hook (1:03) is a quote of the standard MY HEART STOOD STILL. So many of Dexter’s “hooks” are quotes of standards.

Great Lesson. Love me some Long Tall Dex.

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Exactly! In short LTD gets to the point every single time.... we live in an "every note is an enclosure" type of jazz world currently and that gets boring

As a pop/rock/folk person, I couldn't really hear Be Bop until I discovered Dexter Gordon.

Some really nice content. I've checked out a few of your videos and have one piece of (hopefully) constructive criticism: your vibrato is a bit fast and immediate - try waiting until later to start the vibrato, and then use a slower one (that can accelerate and widen as the note diminuendos) - I've heard this called "terminal vibrato" LOL and it has less of a "classical strings" vibe.

Eschew abstraction; embrace the visceral.

Excellent! Got me to subscribe to your channel... and to try to buy your book, but the link to purchase on your website seems broken. Please check it.

Does Transcribe actually write the notes down below the wave form like at 8:45 or is it a superimposition?

How many pages is the book please?

but why that B natural on the first beat of the Fm7 ? (third bar of the cheesecake solo) it implies an Fø7, is it because he's chaining multiple minor II-V-Is ?

How can I get the e-book

I think Dex already did that

My question: was Dexter really thinking of all these when he was improvising? In other words, we can analyse these and find a "formula". But did Dexter think of all these when he was playing?

You are a handsome man.

Fantastic! But why do you have to yell and scream all the time…????

Thanks for the content, but listening to you talking is a bit exhausting man