Improvising over Yesterdays
This Jerome Kern standard is a great vehicle to get started improvising over the minor ii-V-i progression, the line cliche and extended dominants. Watch this lesson to learn how to improvise over this tune with chord tones, guide tones, arpeggios, scale passages and approach patterns.

Lesson Stats
When added: 02/03/08; Duration: 18 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: practice building target note lines and voice-leading them at chord changes.

Practice Sessions & Playalongs
Practice Session 1: Write out and improvise a target note line over the changes to Yesterdays.
Practice Session 2: Write out and improvise a voice-led target note line over the changes to Yesterdays.
Practice Session 3: Write out and improvise a harmonically specific line over the changes to Yesterdays.

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

Resources for further Listening and Reading
Check out these featured books and recordings.