Working my way back in to this program by starting with the new jazz guitar academy. Great to see a lot of familiar faces and mentors.

Hey everyone, hope you’re doing well. Lately, I’ve been sharing some thoughts on how to build your own phrasing using pre-existing material — lines, phrases, and licks you’ve learned from other players — and how to transform those ideas into something that feels truly your own. I thought it might be helpful to show how this process actually looks in practice, at least how I’ve been approaching it in my daily sessions. So I decided to record two segments from my study session today. I literally just hit record and practiced, capturing the full time blocks exactly as they happened. This is part of what I call the Idiomatic Cell Approach, a framework I use to assimilate and internalize external material until it becomes part of my natural vocabulary. In this case, I’m working with a line from Pat Martino’s Linear Expressions book, but the same process can be applied to simpler material too — for example, the 3-note lines we use to approach the thirds of the chords that we worked on in lesson 4 with the Bullseye Method. - The first video shows a 5-minute assimilation block, where I work through each idiomatic cell individually and then combine them. - The second video is a 5-minute call-and-response block, where I use those cells as **Conversation Starters** for short improvisations. You don’t need to watch the full blocks, but I thought it could be useful to show what this process looks like in real time. I hope it gives you some ideas for developing your own vocabulary with whatever material you’re working on. As always, feedback is welcome — I’d love to hear what you think.

What a beast of a song. This took a while just to hammer out where, and how and what chords to play with this. It's all my arrangement, save for the intro, which I got from Kenny Burrell, as near as I can tell. It's still a little rough in places (i.e., my hesitation here and there trying to remember where to go next). Lots of work still to do on this one before comping, improv, etc. https://youtu.be/UR1abOciJnU

Still working on this but I haven't posted in too long so here's a work up. Obviously still sloppy but the direction is where I'm intending to go. For the improv, a number of folks have asked where do we go with thirds; so I started with some thirds and then built a little but then I left the rails and screwed around in a sloppy noodle. I would have deleted but like i said, it's in process so why not post like we're supposed to eh? https://youtu.be/ibgusNIsfW8

It's been a while since I submitted a video. I was going to review the directions videos for mobile and the wistia pops up. Should I get an account and log on to this? Was hoping to upload Etude 4. 8 today.