Yesterdays lives heavily in a minor world, making it essential to develop real language over minor chords and minor ii–V progressions. This lesson gives you practical vocabulary from Clifford Brown so you’re not simply relying on minor scales, but actually making musical statements.

To take your minor language further, this lesson provides focused exercises based on Roy Hargrove’s playing. By working these ideas in all keys, you’ll build a flexible vocabulary you can apply directly to the minor sections of Yesterdays.

The second half of Yesterdays features dominant chords moving around The Cycle. By understanding this cycle movement, you’ll hear how each chord connects and avoid thinking of them as separate moments.

With a long chain of dominant chords in the second half, you need strong dominant vocabulary. Focus on the dominant section of this lesson to build lines and ideas you can apply across this part of Yesterdays.