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As a beginner on piano coming from guitar it blows my mind how much mental work is done in real time, seemingly effortlessly, and all I can do is keep practicing and hoping to get there.

Your graduated stepwise progression allowed me to surprise myself with how well I could play/improvise! Thank you so much for this - I’ll be practicing it daily.

This is a beautiful, elegant, and extremely profound 7 steps to learning how to improvise! I wish that I was taught such a method when I played trumpet in middle and high school! As an educator of music theory, it does not take long to understand that this method greatly reinforces every objective we hope to share with our students! Thanks very much for sharing this! 👑💯🎯🎉♥️🤯🎂

THANK YOU. being a Classical pianist,,in my senior years..(been there , through there..the saying goes) ,,WHAT HAS been missing in my own musical life...is LEARNING properly jazz...and non-classical ways...which i always admired very much. i could use your adivice to "teach" myself again...and help kids learn...:'LET S LEARN GOOD MUSIC TOGETHER" I would say...your lesson is wonderful

This is exactly what I needed!!!!!!! A step by step process that is well structured with very precise goals. I cannot thank you enough for this. It's time to put in the hardwork. I will definitely be sharing my progress on KZfaq once I feel confident enough.

Been waiting all my life for this lesson - its like magic - can't thank you enough for the happiness you bring!

Started this today. I love it. I also use My Foolish Heart for the time being until I feel I am ready to do a new standard.

Enjoyed as a 81 year old longtime amateur guitarist. Thanks for posting. Your students are lucky!!

Great exercises! Steps 6 + 7 are definitely more challenging.. gotta work my way up to them.. slowly but surely.. thanks for these.. 👍

I have the book (Bebop Lines you should know). This video blew my mind. Thanks for making these videos.

As a noob to jazz piano this really helps.

I think this is my favorite jazz education video on KZfaq. Thanks for the lesson! 🎉😊

Thank you for that! I saw this at work. I can't wait to get home and practice it. Something I'd really LOVE to learn how to do well is to take a standard church him, or contemporary praise and worship song and make it sound jazzy. Long story short, I attend a Christian Reformed Church (formerly Dutch Reformed) because I believe it is the most "theologically correct". I came to that conclusion by reading lots of books on theology. Before that, however, I attended different churches and played piano in a Pentecostal church. I have an ongoing joke about being Christian reformed in a Pentecostal body. (I'm not at all trying to start a theological debate here or convince anyone. I just want to learn to play jazz. ) A good example is "Go tell in on the Mountain". I know there are many jazz arrangements I can learn from just reading the music. But generally speaking, I'd like to be able to take a standard tune and play it jazzy. How do I do that or where can I learn? Please advise!

WHAT A WONDERFUL,,,musical way to teach everyone...thank you so much!!

Congratulations. Well organized, by levels with preparatory exercises. Thank you for your generosity in sharing.

One video and I'm now going to be busy for the rest of the year. Thanks!

This was the first of your vids I discovered which led to many more of your lessons. This one is amazing how much this has helped my 'anticipation' and flow! Learning to hear the target note(s) before the transition is challenging but really contributes to the smoothness and economy of movement! As always, thanks!

Amazing, high-value content! This will be part of my routine now.

Wow!!! This is an amazing exercise routine. Thank you!

I think I can practice improv. even for my bass playing with your tips. Thank you very much!!!

From another teacher, this is a really well presented exercise, thank you and hope you continue to make good content!

This is a splendid extercise, i think, for piano. Ive found, however, that i struggle a little bit on instruments with a more limited range, such as saxophone. Here i tend to drop out a lot, when i focus on up-down/ down-up. This happens, because i need to think about not running out of instrument. I've found that in these cases, it's an appropriate modification to take the range into consideration and switch directions, when the instruments asks for it, try to play continuously up and down the register and try to stay with the chords.

Now that's a pretty good exercise. Structured but flexible, if done at all consistently very likely to help you get around the keyboard better. Wouldn't do me a bit of harm, I'm pretty sure. Well done and thanks.

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Enjoyed listening to this as music in its own right - like the beginning of Rachmaninov concerto movement! Will definitely be giving it a go.

What a great exercise concept. So many skills are developed. Also like to mention that I love your MDecks products.

I love the way show everything in a great way. I am happy I found you Jack K

Great exercise and fun to do. 🎉 thanks

excellent, even of all instruments. gracias!

I’m hoping to get to step 3 in tonight’s practice session over Pent Up House. Thanks for the video!

Makes a lot of sense just listening to the video I can hear the possibilities!

Fabulous idea. I love it!

Fantastic video… have been searching for something like this for so long

Hi! This is definitely a fantastic exercise! Thank you much! Starting today, it's on!!!

First of all, mDecks love your piano playing -- and approach to music and prowess of improvisation. Your 7 step exercise is revolutionary - I understand the musical concepts and reasoning behind this exercise .. getting out my clarinet and putting this wisdom into immediate effect! Thank you.

Very nice exercises especially on "appoggiatura". Thank you and congratulations. Greetings from Chopin's homeland :-)

The exercise is brilliant and is super well planned and progressive. I am starting to develop my language thanks to your method. Thank you!

I’m having such a blast with this exercises, specially with #7! Thanks again for taking the time and show us some amazing skills! Y’all rock!

WOW !!!! This is Killer.... Just Beautiful Voicings/Melody Here.. Thanx a Million for This Upload Instructional Lesson Sir ☺☺😎👊💯

A very Big thumb up from Paris 🇫🇷. Awesome vidéo

Again, great video, great lesson

6:20: "The challenge here is that we have to start thinking about the next chord while playing the current chord. Not easy." Actually it is very easy, because while we have to start thinking about the next chord, we no longer have to keep thinking about the current chord (except for the left hand perhaps, but it's basically already done its thing for the current chord). It doesn't matter how dissonant the anticipating enclosure notes are to the current chord, and in fact, the more dissonant the better as a general rule. So you need only think about one chord at any one time. Easy.

Really great content on this channel. Thanks!

I've been looking for a system like this thanks very much. I am currently working on improving my performance and i will try this method to see if it helps.

This is so excellent, I have no words!

Brilliant lesson. Subscribed!

Excellentes suggestions. Merci

Thank you for the super great video and a thousand thanks for the German translation.

wow that was cool. I am a self taught player I need to figure out how to do more standards I can see the chords but I got to climb a long way to get there so im looking forward. great exercise

Good All the musicians must be able to do that !!

Woah step 6 is awesome! Great lesson look forward to trying this method tomorrow.

It's very clear method! Thank you

Great didactic thinking.

Great, thanks a lot! I"ll practise that way. .

Excellent!! Thank you!!

amazing exercise

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Well done 👍🏾 great teaching. Thanks.

Gotta try this!

Thank you very much.

SIMPLY AMAZING!!

Really helpful method here; appreciate y'all

Really enjoyed this tutorial, thank you sir

Magic teaching！thanks a lot！

A great video. Many thanks for posting.

This is pure gold !!! Thanks !!!

Thank you very much brother

Great exercise! I'll practice it!

Great workout!

I like it too

Grazie , molto interssante et molto utile (soprattutto per me)

This guy's amazing

Awesome, def gonna check these out.

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Thank you, this is great!!

Excellent video, and you. 😊

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Merci for this.

Fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

amazing thanks im doing this all the time now

Great video thanks !

Love your videos all the best. All the way from Iraq

This is brilliant

Super helpful! Thank you!

Awesome, I’m going to start using this today!

Very interesting. Will try😊👍🏻

Thanks a lot for this

Amazing!! Thank you!!

Excellent

In bar 4 the harmony is written as Em7, which perhaps ought to Em7♭5 as we are moving to D minor (aeolian). Also, in step 7 the use of B♭ as diatonic note; B♭ is diatonic to both the home key of B♭, and D minor, and in addition it is a chord tone of Em7♭5, but not Em7.

Molto bravo!

I like it. Cheers

Cool exercise, thank you!

Good work

Cool

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I'm a trumpet player and want to learn improvisation. Do you or anyone reading this recommend this channel or should I look elsewhere?

This is excellent, thank you.. I wish young people would take an interest in standard tunes, the American Songbook. By the way shouldn't bar 83 in the enclosures section have a Gflat for the C half diminished chord?

I think this could work well for jazz trombone.