Jazz chord melody may very well be the
most challenging of all guitar styles to truly master. Players must
develop right-hand thumb and finger independence, a robust vocabulary of
jazz voicings, a strong sense of melody and an arranger’s feel for
composition. And these are just the fundamentals. Once you have the
“easy” stuff down, it’s all about groove, arrangement, performance and
improvisation in real time, often as a soloist.
You probably wouldn’t need more than ten fingers to count out the
bonafide masters of this form. Pass, Montgomery, Farlow, Ellis and Breau would likely make everybody’s list. Save one of those
fingers for John Stowell, the guitarists’ guitarist and one of the
modern masters of jazz chord melody guitar.
“John Stowell plays jazz, but he doesn’t use any of the clichés; he has
an incredible originality. John is a master creator,” says Larry
Coryell. Herb Ellis agrees saying that, “More guitarists would play like
John Stowell if they only knew how.” John Stowell’s Modern Chord
Melody reveals Stowell’s original approach
 and
raises the bar for lucid, insightful instruction for jazz chord melody
and improvisation.
Modern Chord Melody takes the student beyond conventional harmony
and chords by introducing a broader, more contemporary palette of
voicings, shapes and single note ideas. Stowell beckons students to
think out of the box, to create and visualize new shapes and sounds on
the instrument. John also demonstrates a series of new inversions, which
can be readily employed in accompaniments and compositions, and may also serve
as templates on the neck to generate unusual and original sounding
melodies and motifs.
Students will play their way through Modern Chord Melody using
Stowell’s original tunes as a workbook for demonstrating the new
techniques and sounds presented in the course. E ach
arrangement showcases key techniques and approaches in context, after which
Stowell explains how to extract and apply the moves in your own
playing, arrangements and compositions.
Modern Chord Melody is not for the feint of heart. Much of the
material in this course presents new approaches, voicings and techniques
that will take serious practice time to absorb and master. Modern
Chord Melody will reward the student’s diligence with an impressive
faculty for chord melody.
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Modern Chord Melody is
optimized for solid intermediate to advanced players and is presented across
2 interactive video CD-ROMs (Windows and Mac compatible), and features 40
full-length video lessons, text overviews, standard notation and interactive
Power Tab so you can "see" and "hear" the tab and notation played out at any
tempo, without a change in pitch.
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