Please give a warm Jazz Guitar Accelerator welcome to @Eugénio Almeida, living in Germany (from Portugal) 🎸

Back from from longish illness. Experimenting with Pat Martino and Rhythm changes (activity #1) https://youtu.be/WF8hl2Jbgkw

https://youtu.be/O7PzbSNQ1uM The other way round this time. I am just using 4 bars of Exercise 1and trying to make it "fit" into rhythm changes

I have been laid up in hospital and been reading about this method. Does anyone have any knowldge/opinions about it?

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.