Mike Stern - Jazz Notes

Jazz Notes is your opportunity to take a lesson from a true jazz master Mike Stern. Mike discusses his background, the learning process, the importance of chord tones and embellishments, tension tones and lots of melodic ideas for major, minor and dominant chords.

Videos

• Autumn Leaves Chord Tones (23:12) - In this first video, Mike Stern welcomes you to the course and discusses the chord tones of the song "Autumn Leaves".

• Autumn Leaves Chord Tone Solo (03:25) - Mike shows how to play the solo from "Autumn Leaves".

• C Dorian Scale/Mode & C Dorian Funk Vamp (06:08) - See Mike demonstrate playing the C Dorian scale/modes and the C Dorian Funk Vamp.

• Embellishments of C Major 7th Chord Tones (06:23) - In this video, Mike dicusses playing embellishments of C Major 7th chord tones.

• C Major Groove (03:29) - Mike shows how he plays C major grooves.

• Dominant 7th (G7 & b5 sub/Db7) (10:22) - See mike demonstrate dominant 7ths.

• The II-V-I Progression & II-V-I Solo (05:41) - In this video, Mike discusses playing a II-V-I progression and a II-V-I solo.

• Bb Blues Jam (08:47) - In this final video, Mike plays a Bb blues jam.