For all 40 Progressions plus the PDFs and Backing Tracks in all 12 Keys: www.jazzlessonvideos.com/pdf-packages Mouthpiece: use $10 coupon code CHADXSYOS at www.syos.co/en/shop/products/signature-saxophone-mouthpiece/chad-lefkowitz-brown-tenor

Exactly the way I approach it. We look at music as "paragraphs" while newbies look at one word at a time. Ear training helps took of course. Good job!

This is very similar to how I memorize standards anyway (breaking down into manageable chunks of chords based on phrases) but I never thought to create an encyclopedic list of phrase archetypes. It’s absolutely brilliant! Thank you and keep up the good work!

I've been wondering about this for a long time but never put any real thought into it. Thank you for making this clear and explicit.

Absolutely the best Jazz web post to date among all my favorite sites! Thank you very much Chad !!! Say hi to MiMi Fox and John-X when back in Bay Area!

You've broken it down in a way that makes sense to me. I've always felt overwhelmed by the number of tunes to learn individually. This method seems efficient and concise. After all, the goal is to be able to hear the changes, so it makes sense to map these sequences kinesthetically in each key. I'll be picking up the full package for sure.

Very cool! i am working on hearing the changes for years It’s good that you destilled it down to 40 progressions (🤯🤯) I will defintively work on it- thank you for the video

I notice in ear-training classes there is never a lesson in recognizing a progression from I to relative minor, and telling it apart from a progression from I to ii minor. Chad's idea really makes up for this lapse.

Very cool! i am working on hearing the changes for years It’s good that you destilled it down to40 progressions (🤯🤯) I will defintively work on it- thank you for the video

wow, this is great chad! I've been looking for a guided methodology just like this.

Jesus man, this is awesome!

Downloading... tomorrow I'll take a look to the material. Thanks Chad. Regards

I think you just outlined the middle school of jazz. Then the elementary school is improvising on a single block of material (one scale or one chord). These building blocks that you use are great. Even if I can only play one or two, I have spent my time useful. My compliments (I ordered).

GEESH, the swinging here is mad

I see the Lupifaro, KB Hand Hammered and the SYOS mouthpiece. All this new great gear it must be Christmas

Thank you for this, you're a great teacher!! Super simply presented

Muchas Gracias !

Great stuff! Got the book, time to get to work 😤

Great sound Chad. bravo

Thanks so much dude 👌 Warm cheers 😊 God bless 🙏🎸🎶😊🎸

I think this is a good concept and I have purchased the Isolated Chord Progressions product, which I like. One improvement would be to include the mp3s of the recorded solo lines by Chad in addition to the already included PDF transcriptions. I would have preferred to listen to the recorded lines and learn them by ear. I would still use the PDF transcription but as a plan B when I can't learn the line by ear, or to review, rather than reading it from the very start. Chad, I suggest to please consider making the recordings of your solo lines available in the package, too. Thanks and all the best!

Okay, that made me laugh..."Ï'm travelling From Egypt to Utah" That pretty much covers the planet! Great video, very good instruction

really thank you

Very nice! A bit darker warmer sound than usual? Love it!

Sounds great... any chance for same thing WITHOUT bass line? For Bass players.

Thks a lot

You look blazed

I haven't tried these out yet but how is the last progression on this video in the base key of C? Is this heading to EbMajor7 as the relative Major of C minor?

What is missing from all of the "why you can't memorize standards" videos is insight into how memory works. Yes, this approach will help by reducing the amount of information you need to retain, but even doing this you will still forget standards. It needs to be combined with a kind of spaced repetition review schedule so the learner burns the information in their long term memory...

it would be awesome if somebody transcribed the piano voicings for these.

I would like to order some more of your material...since I play piano, any chance of the backing tracks without piano and just base and drums? thanks Mike

Come to Toronto!

Isn't this the 2 - 5 - 1 progression? (My dad taught me this when I was a kid, Chad is right...you can learn any tune with this!)

And this is it.

Hey man, great video! Unfortunately, I don't actually read music. I've been playing guitar for 12 years now and absolutely adore jazz. What would you recommend I do to dip my toes in to jazz so to speak? :) My favourite players are Ted Dunbar, Marc Ribot, George Benson etc. I need to get my chops up!

Chad, this is great. Perhaps you could add examples of standards where the various chord progressions occur so students have a reference.

Nice ! The sax lines you play are a bit fast for me. Did you transcribe easier lines also or only one solo example on every chord progression?

Do show the chord voicings for piano in the 40 progressions? If U do I'll order

Hi, what is the pdf package called? There are a couple ones on the same link. Does the PDF for piano have both chord progressions and melody?

Thanks I love your approach very simple and beautiful

Hi i just purchased your book, i thought you would have included a harmonic analysis of each progression. Any reason its not included ?

I like the content and would like to buy it. But I did not understand if I receive the final product in the form of PDF and links for exercises on my computer or I have to wait until it arrives by post.

I want to buy your package(s) but I'm a little confused as to what the choices are. What is the difference between the $29 Standards package and the $79 Standards package. Thanks, Steve

3:29 red Tesla*

The concept is similar to Jerry Coker's Hearing the Changes, but the presentation is quite different and very helpful. One thing seems to be missing: modulations. Many songs modulate to different keys up or down and by different intervals. These need to be recognized and learned just as do the 40 progressions. Chad, how about some backing tracks for modulations?

the link for the backing track in the book need permission to access. please help

Is the first one ii v I vi ? i.e is it in C?

Pro tip for windows users: Windows Media Player can slow down the backing tracks without messing too much with the pitch so you don't need an extra app to do it. Right Click anywhere in windows media player, Go to Enhancements, Playback Speed.

what sax u got?

Are the downloaded tracks labeled in concert key or Bb

hi Chad, I want to download this for sax tenor. Does the "treble clef" folder include the B flat ? Many thanks !

Does the book/pdf explain the chords with numerals? so Dm7-G7-Cmaj7 is for example II-V-I ? And D7-G7-Cmaj7 as V/V-V-I ? I'm considering to buy it, but I would like to know this first.

Awesome! How long are the backing tracks?

What songs have progression #7? I can't think of one.

I am only a level 1 saxophonist.. this and much more I need to learn. :(

thanks!

Actual lesson starts around 2:30

Where is the link below? While I have heard this said a million times, I’ve never seen it

Hi, Does It work for guitar too? Wich onde should i get? Tks

Seems to me, for piano, there has to be more options. You have some wonderful two-hand voicings but sometimes it's Left Hand, only, like when the Piano is soloing with the Right Hand.

Purchased the PDF Chord Progression pkg and it's laid out very nicely in all twelve keys. However, it would be a great help to have these various 40 Chord progressions spelled out. Some are obvious, like #2 = I - vi - ii -V- iii - V7/ii - ii - V... but some are rather tough to 'name/spell'. This would really help us memorize these complex progressions. Beautiful work and thanks for teaching all of us! John M

Would this work for guitarists to learn chords?

I know you describe the Isolated Progressions set in the Video, but I could still use some more description on the Jazz Lesson Videos market site, something beyond just the title. Sample page?A couple sentences? Thanks for these tools.

Just bought this lessons, but thought that there would be mp3s with you playing, so we can copy your playing.

chad you´re awesome! one question: dont you think that improvisation with this technique ends in a pretty static impro?

This is very helpful, however, I was disappointed to not see a common progression I've been working on. vi7 II7 ii7 V7 I, or for example [ B-7 ] [ E7 ] [ E-7 ] [ A7 ] [ Dma7 ]. Still a valuable tool.

Please contact me with the information needed to get this method

ur lessons so good but i live in poor country i cant pay 20$ ))

Can anyone identify the underlying standard songs that go with each of the 40 progressions?

Hello Chad. When I play a song for the first time, I can never remember on the spot which chord progressions to play with a given song. So I and I suspect many of us (consciously or subconsciously) use the following musical forms/patterns to extemporaneously reconstruct and play the chord progressions on the fly while listening to the song in my head: 1. The last root note of the basic chord (not inverted chords) of a song is almost always the same note (+1 or more octaves below) as the final note of the song/melody (or final note of the opening stanza/verse). 2. When the melody progresses upward or downward chromatically, the root note of the basic chord is often 3 note intervals below (+1 octave) the melodic notes played on the main down beat (or sometimes immediately after the main down beat if the down beat melodic note is just a passing note). 3. Otherwise, the root note of the basic chord is either 1, 3, or 5 note intervals BELOW the melodic notes played on the main down beats (or immediately after the main down beat when encountering passing melodic notes). Try playing some traditional Christmas carols on piano in the key of C to easily confirm this simple correspondence between melodic and root notes. 4. Form the chords by playing the root note and the notes at 5, 8, and 10 note intervals above the root note. Add intervals 7 and 9 to jazz it up. I’ve been able to use just these four simple steps/rules to identify the chords to play any given song melody (if you’re playing the piano) by simply and literally watching and visually identifying the melodic notes I am playing with my right hand on the main down beats - a process I’ve come to call “playing by sight” as opposed to “playing be ear” - a process that requires little or no mental effort. If you’re not playing the melody and just playing the chords, you’ll need to “play by ear” and use your ear to identify the melodic notes as you sing the melody in your head using the solfege (do-re-me) method and apply the steps above to identify the root notes and chords.

Is that a KBSax hammered copper neck ?

Is that an afro comb in the drummer's pocket? :)

Are these the chords for Bflat tenor or for C natural piano as well?

This is so difficult to memorize and implement!!!

Do you hate rootless comping?

Right, but...You got to do "the work." There is no easy way, or short cut that avoids the work.

There's an editing mistake at 7:57. The AUDIO SOUND plays / Cmaj7 / F#m7b5 B7b9 / Em7 / A7b13 / but the VIDEO SHOWS the keyboardist playing / Dm7b5 / G7b13#9 / Cm6 / G7b13#9 / Cm6 / . The editing mistake occurred because the video (but not the sound) shown at 7:37 was ACTUALLY intended to be used with the audio sound at 8:20 !!!

Just learn the melody

had a hard time paying attention the guy is too handsome

Great. 40'S alot considering they all sound like close variations of GREEN: avacado FOREST turquoise JADE traffic sign ARMY burmuda grass CRAB APPLE ...

Interesting... I have devised my own method for such matters, and this is not it.....

With respect I don't agree with this approach at all. It is a mistake to suggest that anyone can learn standards by memorising a set of formulas which is essentially what you're suggesting ... Surely better for the student to always be 'living with' listening analysing enjoying a favourite recording and focus on the language and the artist and the tradition. If you want learn Autumn Leaves all you need is a couple of great recordings… Ella Fitzgerald for an accurate melody, Miles Davis live in Europe… For totally amazing soloing by George Coleman and Herbie Hancock… And iReal Pro

duh, 40 progressions times 12 keys times maybe four or five changes per progression comes to something like 2,500 bits of information to practice....the great majority of us are too lazy to be jazz musicians (or to bother with capital letters....)

why does he look photoshopped in the intro

Im sick waiting to play with good jazz musicians.

Are you reading a script?

40 progressions??!! Ha. I don't know 40 colors...

Very cool! i am working on hearing the changes for years It’s good that you destilled it down to40 progressions (🤯🤯) I will defintively work on it- thank you for the video

Thks a lot

Thks a lot