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Peek Inside: Deep Foundations for Melodic Instruments

Build the foundational skills to unlock your creative freedom as an improviser. Check out these free samples from the course to see what you'll be learning!

Deep Foundations for Guitar

In this step-by-step video course, we explore the seven harmonic environments and their chord tones with a special focus on fretboard mastery, melodic improvisation and chord comping. This makes Seven Worlds the ultimate learning environment for improvising on the guitar. Check out this preview!

Free sample lesson 1

In this free sample lesson from Introduction to Improvising on the Piano, we explore the landscape of our keyboard using the smallest interval in our musical system: the half step. We practice moving across our musical landscape, connecting all of the notes as one long unbroken chain of half steps.

All of Me - Melody breakdown and analysis

In this free video lesson we will walk through the melody to "All of Me" and discover some of the lessons it can teach us as improvisers about the art of melodic phrasing.

How all of the different IFR learning materials fit together

In this video I explain all of the different IFR learning materials and how they fit together. 

After completing the workshop Ear Training for Musical Creativity, you have two great paths available to you: expanding your melodic repertoire or moving on to recognizing chords and chord progressions.

Next steps 7

The last chord of the major scale that we need to study is the seven chord which we write as 7-b5.

Next steps 6

This is a very catchy progression that goes down in scale degrees from the 6- chord to the 3- chord.

Next steps 5

In this module you are going to study chords 2- and 3- in the context of a minor key, where the 6- chord is the tonal center.

Next steps 4

With this set of activities you will get to know the 3- chord more deeply by studying it in different contexts.