Here is my first go at Autumn leaves chord melody. There's a few chord and note muffles and hesitations. I would like to work on being more legato/fluid and to personalize it and give it some variety. Any feedback or instruction is always welcome. Thanks! https://youtu.be/WV01AkTyoPA

While I slowly struggle my way through Galbraith's Shiny exercise, I've been figuring out the melody and a few chords to get a clearer picture of the song's structure. I even gave a solo —which I still need to improve a lot— following the chords Galbraith suggests. (I'll have less free time now; tomorrow I start work back at the clinic, and people usually come back from vacation in pretty rough shape!) I put my headphones on to record directly—the downstairs neighbor started complaining a bit about my Shiny practice!! Onward!

@Coach Gabriel Sebrian gave good compliments on my last submittal on my neighboring tones assignment, but he also very gently finger-wagged me for going rogue and playing the assignment in a familiar pattern rather than how he assigned it. Here is a repost with it how he assigned and intended it to be. His feedback also included to slow down. He's not wrong; I'm constantly battling with pushing the limits on the tempo... playing on the 'ragged edge' of my capabilities. Soooo, here are two videos. The first is his exercise playing a NT drill as it cycles through the fourths in the upper tone (UT), target, lower tone (LT), target format. This is fairly pedantic and not overly exciting to watch. Nonetheless, I'm posting so all can see what he has assigned, and what his feedback eventually is so you may potentially benefit also. The second video is using this basic format to explore improv approaches. I weave in some attempts at flair/expression, as well as some chromatics. It is slower than the plain post so as to really focus on trying to imagine a line and then play it. It has a lot of missed notes, lost tempo, and otherwise just generally messy at times, but it shows where I am on it at this point. I don't think it's all bad though; I'm happy with a few parts of it, including a few chromatic licks. I think I'm a little further along in actual improv progress on this when not limiting myself to UT, target, LT, target approach. Hopefully I can crank out a post soon that demonstrates better overall progress, including other NT approaches. Anyhow... here they are. No need to watch all of either. You'll get the gist within about a minute into each. https://youtu.be/tSFdlRjgDXs https://youtu.be/OZFYiDu0k8U

Inspired by Mentor Bob and Prof Miquel, here’s the first 16 bars of this etude by B Galbraith (see Vol 3 in MJGA, the green book). I can hear that I’m rushing the beat a little. M-A talks about this in the lesson- never noticed this until I listened to my own video! Thank you for your comments! https://youtu.be/pgEEVME-U2g?is=iaZW2Rnq38EBk3Ff

My 'Icebreaker' post on rejoining the Jazz Guitar Academy platform after over a year away. Its also my first modal tune which meant thinking of something to play over 16 bars of Dm7. Little Sunflower is a trippy laid back modal jazz tune by Freddy Hubbard with an AABA form. I tried several approaches to the improvisation and settled on my usual approach of taking off from the melody, with licks based on the D Dorian scale but with each trip around the A section trying to move a little more 'outside' via use of triad pairs. I credit Steve Gregory's version of the tune on Youtube as the source of one or two small components of the improv, but I've tried to build the large majority of it from my own ideas. Got to say it was a challenge, particularly in the timing and balancing precision with the laid back vibe. Feedback welcome. https://youtu.be/BqXCCfchTq0 4CE (Head in, Improv 1, Improv 2, Head out)