Improvising Over Stella By Starlight
This great standard is a challenge to improvise over. It progresses through several keys, never resolving to those keys in ways that you would expect and often just modulates on the spot. Yet, the keys that it progresses through aren't particularly difficult- nothing more than Ab and for most of the tune just Bb. In this lesson learn how to navigate these changes using chord tones on strong beats, arpeggios, scale passages and approach patterns as well as a blues lick, upper structure triads, and over-the-barline phrasing among other techniques.

Lesson Stats
When added: 07/07/08; Duration: 17 minutes.

Prerequisites
Moderate keyboard proficiency. Ability to read notation. These lessons are good prerequisites: Four Components of Melodic Construction and Improvisation: the Concept.

Quiz
Quiz 1: Identify the Four Components of Melodic Construction as they apply to the changes of Stella By Starlight.

Practice Sessions & Playalongs
Practice Session 1: Write out and improvise a target note line over the chord changes to Stella By Starlight.
Practice Session 2: Write out and improvise melodic lines using the Four Components of Melodic
Construction over the chord changes to Stella By Starlight.

Includes play-alongs for all practice sessions in MIDI, Band-in-a-Box™ and GarageBand formats.

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