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Fretprints Podcast | Vocabulary, Voice, and the Fretboard — 292 episodes
Improvisation Topics - Solar
500 Miles High
Always and Forever Changes
Our Spanish Love Song Changes
Solar Changes
Georgia On My Mind
Minor Blues Chord Progressions
So What - Modal Improvisation
Tonal and Modal Improvisation
Blues Language
Yardbird Suite
Lady Bird by Tadd Dameron
Mr PC Chords and Scale Options
Ornithology Harmony, Form and Charlie Parker Lines
Wave Improvisation and Comping Talk
Moonlight in Vermont Chord Scales
Pentatonic Scale Concepts
Song For My Father
Affirmation Improvisation Concepts
Invitation
Straight, No Chaser
Hexatonic Scales
Podcast - Little Sunflower
Podcast - Sunny Improvisation Concepts
Podcast - Barry Harris Sixth Diminished Scale Concept
Podcast - Killing Me Softly with His Song Form and Analysis
Podcast - Bebop Scale Concepts on Bluesette
Bluesette - Harmony and Form
Podcast - Bright Size Life Improvisation with Triads
Podcast - Confirmation Changes and Bebop Concepts
Wes Montgomery Solo Concepts on Whisper Not
Whisper Not - Harmony and Form
Bright Size Life Intervals
Podcast - Manha De Carnaval
Podcast - Mercy Mercy Mercy
Podcast - Just Friends
Podcast - Watch What Happens
Relative and Parallel Perspectives
Jazz Blues and Soloing
Dolphin Dance Chord Melody Concepts
Podcast - Dolphin Dance Chord Changes
Podcast - Christmas Time is Here Chord Progression
Podcast Christmas Time is Here Chord Melody Concepts
Podcast - What's so Great about Melodic Minor
Outside the Lines: Mastering 'Playing Outside' on Guitar
All of Me Harmonic Analysis
Jazz Guitar Weekly Review: Octatonic Scales, Bebop Language, and Mastering Chord Scales
Crafting Chord Melody Arranging: Cry Me a River for Guitar
Podcast Chord Melody'Cry Me a River'
Podcast dominant 7th and Bebop Scales
Cry Me a River Improvisation Podcast
Cry Me A River - Harmonic Analysis
🎸 Podcast Episode: Mastering Tritone Substitutions for Guitar Players - Podcast Oct 21 2024
All of Me Chord Scales
All of Me - Melodic Harmonization Technique
All of Me Chord Changes
Podcast October 2 2024 Blue Bossa
Podcast September 24 2024 Minor Blues
Podcast September 17 2024 Footprints Continued
Podcast September 12 2024 Footprints
Alone Together - Podcast September 4 2024
August 20 2024 Podcast Misty
August 5 2024 Podcast The Days of Wine and Roses
Four On Six Improvisation Tips July 26 2024
Podcast July 17 2024 It Could Happen to You talk
There Will Never Be Another You - Podcast July 10 2024
Jim Ellis Podcast - Have You Met Miss Jones
Jim Ellis Livestream - June 15, 2024
Minor - Theory and Fingerboard
Podcast Edition Duo Talk #15
Podcast Manha De Carnaval
May 15 2024 Stella by Starlight
Secondary Dominants - All of Me
Solar - Guide Tone Improvisation
Improvise in a Variety of Keys
Cross Picking
Tenderly Chord Melody Choices
Duo Talk #14
Duo Talk March 2 2024
Duo Lessons and Talks March 2 2024
Coral Single Line Improvisation
Duo Talk 12
Duo Talk #11
Duo Talk #10
Duo Talk #9
Duo Talk on Solar Changes
Harmonising Melody - ”What Is This Thing Called Love?”
Duo Talk #8
Chromatic Passing Tones
Lessons and Talks Guitar and Bass September 23 2023
Duo Talk #7
Insensatez Guitar Bass Talk
Guitar and Bass Talk #6
Lessons and Talks August 15 2023
Picking Hand Technique Aug 14 2023
Guitar and Bass Talk - Aug 6 2023
Lessons and Talks August 9, 2023
Guitar and Bass Talk July 27 2023
Guitar and Bass Talk July 22 2023
Guitar and Bass Talk Episode 2
Podcast: Lessons and Talks - June 27, 2023
Lessons and Talks June 20 2023
Guitar and Bass Talk - Episode 1
”I Loves You Porgy” Harmony and Form
All The Things You Are Pat Metheny Solo Chorus Two
Chords and Scales
Ten Note Bebop Scales
Autumn Leaves - Chord Melody
Yesterdays Wes Montgomery Solo Excerpts
Fluidity with Technique
Slash Chords - On Green Dolphin Street
Bebop Pentatonic Scales
My Romance Harmony and Form
Bill Evans Harmony
Technique and Exercises
January 2023 Review
On Green Dolphin Street Chord Melody
Single Note Lines - On Green Dolphin Street
Chord Shapes - On Green Dolphin Street
Joe Pass ”On Green Dolphin Street”
Harmonizing Melody ”On Green Dolphin Street”
George Garzone Random Chromatic Approach
Augmented, Relative Major and Minor Triads
George Garzone Triadic Chromatic Approach
Barney Kessel Solo On Green Dolphin Street
Arpeggios On Green Dolphin Street
Pentatonics - Prelude to a Kiss
Falling Grace Analysis
Week’s End Review January 6, 2023
Phrasing Through Chord Changes
Modal Playing
Prelude to a Kiss Chord Changes
Visualizing Chord Shapes
Spelling Tones
Lady Bird Chris Potter Solo
Jazz Theory - Intervals
Superimposition
Lady Bird Solo Part II
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Lady Bird Guitar Solo
December 9, 2022
Rhythm - Everything Happens to Me
Chord Scales ”Spain”
Voicings - Everything Happens to Me
Harmonic Changes Everything Happens to Me
Pentatonics
Progressions
Notes on Strong Beats
Blues for Alice Parker Solo
Note Choices
Bebop Scale Types
Chord Melody Technique
Wes Montgomery Solo on Days of Wine and Roses
Weed End Review November 18 2022
Phrasing
Even and Odd
Tonality November 15 2022
Wes Montgomery Days of Wine and Roses
Hexatonics - Atras da Porta
Melodic Structures Days of Wine and Roses
Chord Types and Extensions
Harmony and Form - Atras da Porta
Four Scales - Days of Wine and Roses
One Change - Days of Wine and Roses
Harmony and Form Days of Wine and Roses
Triads for Solos Fly Me to the Moon
Triad Shapes - Fly Me to the Moon
Harmonic Pairs - Fly Me to the Moon
Improvisation Phrases
Pentatonics: ”Fly Me to the Moon”
Circle of Fifths - Fly Me to the Moon
Segmentation -Fly Me to the Moon
Chord Melody Fly Me to the Moon
Week in Review October 7 2022
Chord Tones: ”Fly Me to the Moon”
Chord Shapes - Fly Me to the Moon
Alternate Picking - Fly Me to the Moon
Harmony and Form - Fly Me to the Moon
Chromatic Tones Nuages
Octave Shapes: ”Nuages”
Clean Phrasing
Chord Melody Nuages
Week in Review September 23, 2022
Pentatonics - Nuages
Melodic Structures: Nuages
Special Techniques: Nuages
Chord Changes and Voicings: Nuages
Note Choices - ”Nuages”
Scale Types - Nuages
Chord Choices Nuages
Melody Analysis: Nuages
Week in Review September 9 2022
Five-Note Bebop Scale Patterns Nuages
Chord Voicings Nuages
Week in Review September 3, 2022
Playing Changes: Nuages
Soloing on Nuages
”Nuages” Form and Analysis
Update August 2022
Inversions for Melodic Structures
Hexatonic Scales
Chord Changes ”Quasimodo”
Note Choices Quasimodo
Solo Changes for Quasimodo July 19 2022
Learning Tunes
July 14 2022 Quasimodo Harmonic Analysis
Quasimodo Melody Overview
July 7 2022 V-I and Pentatonics
Approaches to Practicing Melody - ”Solar”
”Solar” Chords and melody
Rhythms - June 20 2022
Bebop Scale Shapes
Melodic Analysis: Donna Lee part I
Progressions: ”Donna Lee”
Octave Shapes
Jazz Lines May19, 2022
Guitar Tone
Rhythms - Three Attacks
Week in Review April 30, 2022
Basic Melodic Structure Types
Jazz Lines - April 26, 2022
Melodic Structures - April 25, 2022
Slash Chords
Seed Rhythms
Jazz Lines - April 18, 2022
Chord Tones and Non Chord Tones
Alternate Picking - Practice Ideas and Concepts
Studio Talk - April 11, 2022
Studio Update - March 29, 2022
Studio Talk March 23, 2022
Studio Talk March 8, 2022
Jim Ellis Sunday Live #58
Studio Talk March 3, 2022
Studio Talk March 2, 2022
Studio Talk March 1, 2022
Studio Talk February 28, 2022
Jim Ellis Sunday Live #57
February 24, 2022
February 23, 2022
February 22, 2022
JimEllisSundayLive#56
Jim Ellis Sunday Live #55
Jim Ellis Sunday Live #54
Jim Ellis Sunday Live #53
Jim Ellis Sunday Live #52
Dividing the Octave
Jim Ellis Sunday Live#51
Improvisation Workshop Summary Jan 15, 2022
Week in Review: January 14, 2021
Arpeggios on a Single String
Range
”Body and Soul” Chord Progression
Dominant b9 Pentatonic
Jim Ellis Sunday Live #50
Week in Review: January 7, 2022
January 6, 2022
January 5, 2021
”But Beautiful” Chord Changes
Jim Ellis Sunday Live #49
Practice-Along December 21, 2021
Jim Ellis Sunday Live #48
Week in Review December 10, 2021
”All The Things You Are” Harmony and Form
Two-Note Patterns for Scales and Phrases
Jim Ellis Sunday Live
“There Is No Greater Love” Playing in Several Keys
Practice-Along December 1, 2021
”There Is No Greater Love” Whiteboard Theory Talk
”There Is No Greater Love” Harmony and Form
”My One and Only Love” Keys and Chord Scales
Week in Review: November 26, 2021
Jim Ellis Sunday Live #46
”Along Came Betty” Form & Analysis
Static Minor 7th Chords - Improvising with Pentatonics
Along Came Betty Connecting Arpeggios Part II
Pentatonics and the V-I progression
Jim Ellis Sunday Live #45
Week in Review: November 12
Chord Voicings Diminished and Minor, Major
Arpeggio Comparison Diminished 7th & Half-Diminished 7th
Jim Ellis Sunday Live #44
”My One and Only Love” Drop 2 & 3 Voicings Part IV
”My One and Only Love” Drop 2 & 3 Voicings Part III
”My One and Only Love” Drop 2 & 3 Part II
Harmony & Form “My One and Only Love”
Progressions drop 2 & 3 part I “My One and only Love”
Jim Ellis Live #43
Chord Scales and “Alone Together” part IV
Chord Scales and “Alone Together” Part III
Chord Scales and “Alone Together” Part II
Chord Scales and ”Alone Together”
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