Modern Chord Melody - 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.
Once you have the “easy” stuff down,
it’s all about groove, arrangement, performance and improvisation in real
time, often as a soloist.
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Graduated Solos - Presents an intuitive approach for cultivating the
aesthetics of your jazz improvisations, specifically how to construct
beautiful, expressive solos using the melody as the template for the
improvisation. Most students of jazz guitar are so focused on the prevailing
progression that they often neglect the tune itself. While there are many
superb improvisations that make no reference whatsoever to the head, the
most brilliant and memorable solos are generally “graduated” improvisations
that stem directly from the melody.
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Vamps, Jams & Improvisation - Vamps, Jams and Improvisation
illustrates dozens of approaches for developing solid melodic and rhythmic
ideas for soloing or comping over one and two-chord vamps. You'll first
learn how to think melodically and then how to best express those ideas, in
a vamp or jam setting, with the other band members.
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Jazz: Streaming Video Lessons Online
TrueFire
TV features over 3,000 video guitar lessons, performances and interviews
from many of the world's top players and educators. Pump up your jazz
chops anytime, anywhere, in full living color. You’ll play your way
through jazz lesson plans learning special techniques and theoretical
concepts while honing your rhythmic and improvisational abilities.
Jazz video lessons are supported with a compliment of lesson assets
including tab, notation, charts, text overviews and practice rhythm
tracks. You'll also use playlists, search and history functions to
optimize your learning experience and keep your practice sessions
organized. Optimized for broadband users, unlimited access on TrueFire
TV is available to
Level 1 and Level
2 TrueFire Students. Visit
JOIN to compare tuition and plans.
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free samples...
TrueFire's interactive video jazz guitar lessons and courses on CD-ROM, provides the guitar student
with the most advanced and intuitive suite of learning tools available
anywhere.
TrueFire's proprietary player presents guitar lesson segments with picture-in-picture
video, text, notation, interactive tab and practice rhythm tracks with useful
controls like speed, looping and zoom. Courses are cross-platform (PC and
Mac).
Check out Jazz U and How to Play Guitar Anthology!
TrueFire proudly hosts the largest online library of interactive audio jazz guitar lessons and
courses on CD-ROM. All jazz lessons include audio MP3 files, PDF notation and
tab files and PowerTab, so that you can "see" and "hear" the tab played out as
well as slow it down without effecting pitch.
Individual jazz guitar lessons
can be immediately downloaded and CD compilations feature collections of
jazz guitar lessons.
Interactive Video
