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Find Your Voice: Improvisation
Join GIT graduate and professional guitar player, Michael Palmisano as he explores his personal approach to improvising on guitar. Relying heavily on his loop pedal, Michael walks through the theory and mindset that goes into playing over chord progressions and crafting beautiful melodies and solos. This is a very hands on course! If you have a loop pedal, a recording device, or a friend to play with, that would really help make the most of it.
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About this course
Join GIT graduate and professional guitar player, Michael Palmisano as he explores his personal approach to improvising on guitar. Relying heavily on his loop pedal, Michael walks through the theory and mindset that goes into playing over chord progressions and crafting beautiful melodies and solos. This is a very hands on course! If you have a loop pedal, a recording device, or a friend to play with, that would really help make the most of it.
What you'll learn
- Apply chord scale approach to major and minor 1-4-5 progressions
- Create melodic lines that emphasize each chord's individual sound
- Expand improvisational vocabulary beyond basic scale-based soloing
- Understand how to imply previous or upcoming chords while improvising
- Develop ability to create tension and interest by playing 'outside' the current chord
Release date: 09/28/2017 • 3h 29m runtime
Sample lessons
The Triad Skeleton
The Chord Formula
Emphasizing Chord Tone
Playing in Multiple Keys
The Full 7 Note Major Scale
Introducing the Diatonic Scale
Melodic vs. Harmonic
Melodic vs. Harmonic
What's included
40 lessons • 26 charts • 18 Jam Tracks
Series Introduction
Michael kicks off his course and explains what to expect from the course, as well as who this course is designed for.
Why Is Improvising So Challenging?
In this lesson, Michael is going to start de-mystifying improvisation. After walking through the plan for the series, he demonstrates how to outline chord movement with your melodies.
Why Is Improvising So Challenging?
In this lesson, Michael is going to start de-mystifying improvisation. After walking through the plan for the series, he demonstrates how to outline chord movement with your melodies.
Everything Exists In Context
Whether you are a solo guitarist, playing with a band, loops or a JamTrack, every melody exists in a context of harmony and rhythm. In this lesson, Michael examines what context is on a fundamental level.
Everything Exists In Context
Whether you are a solo guitarist, playing with a band, loops or a JamTrack, every melody exists in a context of harmony and rhythm. In this lesson, Michael examines what context is on a fundamental level.
What Chords Are In A Key?
Understanding what chords fit with in a key is a crucial element to crafting new melodies and harmonies while improvising. Join Michael as he breaks down the formula for chord structure in every key.
The Triad Skeleton
It's all about context! Chords are the harmony context we are constantly playing in as we improvise. In this lesson, Michael breaks down the structure of what makes a major or minor triad.
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