Emily Remler - Advanced Jazz and Latin Improvisation (Hot Licks)

This hour-long video lesson with the late Emily Remler covers some of latin jazz guitar's most important topics, such as true bossa nova style, samba rhythms, unique chord positions, alternating bass lines, syncopated guitar parts, passing chords, jazz minor scales, arpeggio licks, learning to put various scales over certain chords, eighth-note improvisation, II-V progressions and V-I resolutions. This is truly a jazz master class!

Videos

• Introduction & Opening Performance (05:05) - In this introduction video, Emily Remler plays an opening song.

• Bossa Nova (examples 1-8) (11:21) - Emily kicks things off with the Bossa Nova examples.

• Approach Notes (example 9) (01:15) - Emily discusses her use of

• Playing Through a Chord Progression (02:49) - In this video, Emily shows how she plays through the chord progressions.

• Dominant Chord Scales Type 1 (examples 10-23) (06:20) - Emily shows the first type of dominant chord scales.

• Arpeggios (examples 24-26) (02:26) - Next up, Emily shows how she uses Arpeggios in her playing.

• Practice Ideas (examples 27-32) (05:25) - Emily shares some practice ideas.

• Dominant Chord Scales Type 2 (examples 33-34) (02:30) - In this video, Emily shows the second type of dominant chord scales.

• II V Progressions (examples 35-41) (04:01) - Emily shows II V progressions.

• Eighth Note Lines - "Blue Bossa" (examples 42-44) (13:35) - In this video, Emily shows eighth note lines.

• Closing Comments & Performance of "Afro Blue" (06:12) - Emily gives her final thoughts and performs one last song.