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Check out part one - the A section:
   • Playing OUTSIDE The Changes | Rhythm ...  

0:00 Intro
0:45 Etude 1 - The Standard Chords
1:12 Performance
2:20 Etude 2 - The Eternal Triangle
3:06 Performance
3:59 Etude 3 - Coltrane Changes
5:01 Performance
5:20 Outro and Patron Acknowledgements

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The rhythm changes bridge, like all things in jazz, is deceptively simple. Whether you're still getting the form under your fingers, or you just need some new fodder for your improvisations, this video is for you! There's tons of ways we can alter or completely reharmonize the bridge to the classic "rhythm changes." It's such an an important musical form in the jazz idiom and gets called so often at jam sessions, we should really have a few of these alternate progressions under our belt.

In this lesson, I'll share with you three etudes I've written over the bridge. The first one on the standard, "normal," chord changes will have plenty of bebop language for you to sink your teeth into but nothing super outlandish or weird.

Etude number two will take you through some ideas over the bridge to the classic tune, "The Eternal Triangle," made famous by Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt, and Dizzy Gillespie on the record Sonny Side Up. This one is a bit more challenging to learn as both an etude and to improvise over since we have to contend with chromatically descending dominant chords. I think you'll really get a lot out of some of the ideas in this etude!

Finally, etude number three will see us using a "coltrane cycle" super-imposed on top of the original bridge. This will get us a really outside and modern sound that we can choose to employ any time we're playing a chorus of rhythm changes. It's a doozy to improvise over so check out the etude in full and see if you can pick apart some of the language I'm using in these 8 bars.

All these etudes are pretty densely packed with lines for you to learn that'll help you improve your improvised solos if you spend the time with them! Happy practicing!

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