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Guitar players
love to jam. Call out a key, lay down a one or two chord vamp, the rhythm
section kicks in and everybody starts to get their groove on - simple enough
for seasoned players with monster improv chops and big ears. Not so
easy for most intermediate and early advanced players who tend to run out of
ideas and struggle communicating musically with the other members of the band.
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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.
Your vamp, jam
and improvisation guide is the inimitable Frank Vignola. Frank is one of the
most accomplished, multi-dimensional players walking the planet today.
Monster player, composer and improviser,
Frank’s pedigree is a mile long, a quick Google will illustrate why
there’s no one better qualified to shape your jamming
skills.
 Vamps, Jams and Improvisation
fills your toolbox with creative devices like melodic patterns, call and
response, stutter picking, guide tones, horizontal lines, tone targeting,
muffled arpeggios, chromatics, expressions, passing tones and other
techniques for generating ideas on the fly. You’ll also learn how to develop
ideas around unusual scales like the Super Locrian, Bartok minor and
harmonic minor scales. Rhythm
and comping are also covered with equal emphasis; clave rhythms, inversions, rhythmic
alteration, quartal harmony, bubble parts, chord punches and how to clearly
communicate and then lock up with the band is demonstrated in detail.
Here's how
Vamps, Jams and Improvisation is
presented …
 Frank
has prepared ten one- and two-chord vamps, in a variety of styles. You'll play
your way through the course, applying key learnings, in context using
these tracks.
All of
the rhythm lessons demonstrate a particular approach for comping in a
particular style, feeding ideas to the soloist, and locking up with the
rhythm section.
The solo
lessons likewise demonstrate a particular device or harmonic approach for
developing original ideas and improvising interesting lines, melodies and
solos.
Vignola
presents all of the material starting first with basic concepts and then progresses on to more advanced concepts and
performances.
The
baseline solos and comps, along with select advanced lines and comps are
transcribed and presented in Power Tab, so you can “see” and “hear” the tab
played out at any tempo.
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WHAT YOU GET
Video software (Windows and Mac) with
TrueFire's
Lesson Player, PIP, full-screen,
looping, slow
motion, keyboard shortcuts, plus...
- 208 Minutes of Video
- Practice Rhythm Tracks
- Text Commentary
- Tab and Notation
- Power Tab
CURRICULUM
Intermediate-Advanced
"illustrates dozens of approaches for developing solid melodic and rhythmic ideas for soloing or comping
over one and two-chord vamps"
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