Miles Belvin

Trumpet, Flugel, Arranger, Composer

Jazz Improvisation

Listed below are many of the worksheets and supplementary guides I've created over the years to help teachers and students alike with soloing.


Blues

Exercises that focus on Blues form and Blues based soloing.


Guide-Tone Soloing

Using guide tones to help write out a solo is an extremely useful tool to help you navigate any set of chord changes.


Licks

Playing Bebop Lines

This ongoing instructional series is focused on playing over chord changes and soloing like a pro.


Preliminary Exercises

Exercises to help get the chord changes under your fingers before you begin soloing.


Triadic Approach

Using triads to solo can be both limiting and liberating.  These worksheets will help you to master this concept.


Tune Specific Exercises

Worksheets catagorized by tunes as opposed to the exercises