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Mark
Stefani, top-notch solo guitar player with a pedigree a mile long, is also
one the most prolific and well-rounded guitar instructors we have the
pleasure of working with.
Mark's interactive chord melody course,
Chord Melody Cafe,
remains at the top of our charts and his
monthly lessons always rank in our top ten.
Jazzed Blues, another 4-CD ROM interactive video course from Stefani,
focuses solely on developing a vocabulary of versatile jazzed blues phrases
for use as solo building blocks. The course is ideal for intermediate to
advanced players.
Jazzed Blues includes 80 video lessons, text overviews, standard notation,
interactive Power Tab and is presented in TrueFire’s multi-media video
player for Windows and Mac, which features zoom, speed control, looping and
other useful instructional functions.
Most players are
comfortable soloing over a wide variety of blues grooves but freeze up
when things get a bit jazzed – Jazzed Blues fixes that. Here's how it works …
The lessons are organized into
sets of versatile jazzed blues phrases.
The
phrases are demonstrated in context against various jam tracks across
several jazzed blues feels.
Each
phrase is broken down note-by-note with fingerings and technical tips
to help players nail the phrase.
The
video lessons also
illustrate how to expand the phrase and then connect it to the other
phrases to construct solos.
Each set features a jam track
for students to practice soloing over using the phrases in that particular set.
A text description provides an
overview of the phrase along with its technical characteristics.
Each phrase is charted in
tablature as well as standard notation and also features an audio commentary from Mark Stefani.
Phrases
are also presented in Power Tab – interactive tablature, which allows the
student to see and hear the tab played out. |