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Mobility exercise for guitar

In this free sample lesson from Deep Foundations for Guitar, you will learn to move freely all over the neck of your guitar by half steps.

Piano for Non-Pianists 4

In this lesson you'll learn to control the tonal center in your music, allowing you to create the seven harmonic environments of the major scale.

IFR Playalong: chords 1 and 4

Grab your instrument and practice improvising over chords 1 and 4 with me!

Minor blues ear training

In this video we will train our ear with the beautiful chords of the minor blues.

Melody Paths with chords 6-, 4, 1, 5D

In this video we are going to train our ear together with the famous chord progression 6-, 4, 1, 5D. First, we'll sing the roots to make sure we can feel the chord changes. Then we'll practice the ear training exercise Melody Paths, singing melodies connecting chord notes across the chord progression.

When to advance in Sing the Numbers 1?

For IFR students using our ear training audio course 'Sing the Numbers', in this video I'll help you understand how to get the most out of this course and how to decide when you're ready to move on from each lesson to the next.

Improvising with the blues scale

In this video Jelske explores improvising with the blues scale and shows how this scale relates to blues chord changes.

Q&A - How music should I practice?

An IFR student asks how much he needs to practice to be successful with the IFR method.

IFR Exercise 1 Daily Meditation with whole steps for soprano sax

For IFR students practicing Exercise 1: Landscape, this is a demonstration of the Exercise 1 Daily Meditation. Marina Vallet demonstrates the exercise on the soprano saxophone using the interval of a whole step.

Improvisation exercise with whole steps on the soprano sax

In this video Marina Vallet demonstrates the IFR Staircase exercise on the soprano saxophone using the interval of the whole step.