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"Mix
the enthusiasm of a city kid with equal parts of Wes Montgomery, Johnny
Smith and Howard Roberts, season heavily with equal parts of Oscar Peterson
and Charlie Parker. Stir vigorously for twenty years and you’ll cook up jazz
guitar master Robert Conti!" so says jazz label PRD, Otto Altobelli and we
couldn’t agree more.
<< Click player below for a sample video from the course >>
Robert Conti is indeed one of the few bonafide jazz
guitar masters walking the planet today and we're proud as we can be to
bring you TrueFire's version of Conti's extraordinary Jazz Master course.
Fortunately
for we mere mortal students of jazz guitar, Conti has an innovative approach
for breaking down and presenting jazz instruction.
He gets
you up and running quickly – no tedious theory, exercises or methodology to
master before getting some solid lines and chord melodies under your belt.
This volume, and the next two, focus on improvisational soloing - this first
one features a beautifully executed solo over a bossanova jazz feel. Conti
breaks it all down note-for-note and provides critical guidance along the
way following his proven teaching system.
Conti’'s reputation for blazing speed and
sophisticated lines is well substantiated in all of the course’s solos but
fear not, all of the material is demonstrated at slow tempos and the
interactive tab player lets you slow the lines down without changing pitch.
This volume takes you back to the day with a smoking bebop solo and no one
better to guide you there than Conti. The cross-platform (Windows and Mac)
interactive lesson player also includes jam tracks so you can work your
lines and have a little fun in the process.
This volume has a classic bebop jazz feel.
Conti is adamant that students need to first develop a vocabulary of
versatile jazz lines and understand how to twist, turn and connect them to
one another over chord changes.
Conti performs a jazz blues solo and then
patiently breaks it down note-for-note to help build your vocabulary and
understanding of jazz blues lines and improvisation.
This last volume is focused on chord melody playing. Conti has arranged a
set of five solo guitar arrangements loosely based on popular classic jazz
standards.
But this volume is NOT about learning
standards or building your repertoire – it’s about exploring the jazz chord
melody vocabulary and learning how to craft your own arrangements of any
tune. Conti’s chord-grid lead sheet system makes this process ridiculously
easy.
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