Practice backing tracks
A rhythm section that never gets tired. Set the tempo, transpose to any key, and improvise.
A bebop 12-bar blues. Walk the changes, hit the ♭III dim, nail the turnaround.
The I–♯i°–ii–V turnaround. Tiny loop, endless vocabulary. Great for chromatic lines.
Sixteen bars of warm minor bossa. Sit in the pocket and let the ♭II major sing.
The A-section everyone should own. Two chords a bar, fast and relentless.
Two chords, all the space in the world. Practice the mode, not the changes.
The minor cadence drilled clean. Half-diminished, altered dominant, home.
Coltrane changes through three key centers a major third apart. The ultimate fast-changes workout.
Am–G–C and a cheeky F. Three chords, one earworm — perfect for a straight-eighth strum.