Truefire Ted Ludwig's Improvising Jazz Changes Bebop

Improvising changes is one of a jazz guitarist's most essential skills. Once you master common progressions, you can navigate chord changes fluently, develop your jazz vocabulary, and create melodic lines that fit the harmony.

Familiarity with changes also improves sight-reading and chart interpretation, which means you’ll quickly recognize patterns and improvise confidently through unfamiliar tunes.

In Improvising Jazz Changes: Bebop Edition, Ted Ludwig will teach you how to improvise the changes to five bebop classics. He’ll walk you through the harmonic foundations of these progressions and give you the tools to elevate your improvisational skills.

“As a jazz guitarist, mastering jazz changes is essential. It's the foundation for improvisation, leading you to more creative freedom and the ability to speak the ever-evolving language of jazz freely and confidently. In this edition, we’ll learn to improvise the changes to five essential bebop classics: Recorda Me, Four on Six, Cherokee, Jeannine, and Giant Steps. For each of the tunes, I’ll take you through the chord progressions, the form, and some essential insights you’ll need to get started improvising. I’ll perform a rhythm and lead performance for you over a backing track and break down my approach.” - Ted Ludwig

You’ll explore:

Recorda Me – navigate minor tonalities and modal changes
Four on Six – apply melodic ideas over classic Wes Montgomery changes
Cherokee – master fast-paced ii-V-I progressions in multiple keys
Jeannine – explore complex harmony and rhythmic phrasing
Giant Steps – tackle advanced chord cycles with bebop fluency

And more!
You’ll have TrueFire’s interactive learning tools to customize your workspace and learn at your own pace. The demonstrations and performances are tabbed, notated, and synced to the video lessons with controls for looping, slow motion, fretboard animation, and other tools designed to accelerate your progress.

You’ll also get the tab and standard notation files to print out, downloadable Guitar Pro files for editing, and backing tracks to record and practice with.

Grab your guitar, and let’s dig in with Ted Ludwig!

Includes

27 Video Lessons
15 Charts (.pdf)
10 Jam Tracks (.mp3)
15 Tabs (.gp5 or .ptb)
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