Creative Control for Guitarists (JamPlay)
Transform Theory into Expression and Take Command of the Fretboard
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About this course
If you’ve built a solid foundation of scales, chords, and arpeggios, Creative Control for Guitarists is your next step toward truly expressive playing. In this follow-up to Inside and Out, Jeffery Marshall helps you turn theoretical knowledge into creative mastery with a focus on phrasing, substitution, and technical control.
Across 30 focused lessons, you'll explore advanced concepts like pentatonic and chord substitution, modal chord applications, motif development, blues phrasing, and odd groupings like 5-against-4. You’ll also sharpen your technique with hybrid picking exercises that push your coordination, speed, and rhythmic flexibility.
This course is designed to give you the tools to craft compelling solos and musical ideas that speak with clarity and style. It’s about bridging intellect and instinct—so you can play what you hear, and hear what you play.
Across 30 focused lessons, you'll explore advanced concepts like pentatonic and chord substitution, modal chord applications, motif development, blues phrasing, and odd groupings like 5-against-4. You’ll also sharpen your technique with hybrid picking exercises that push your coordination, speed, and rhythmic flexibility.
This course is designed to give you the tools to craft compelling solos and musical ideas that speak with clarity and style. It’s about bridging intellect and instinct—so you can play what you hear, and hear what you play.
What you'll learn
- Create interesting chord voicings by modifying triads within a key
- Use the finger roll technique to create rapid-fire note sequences
- Extend modal chord concepts to melodic minor and other scales
- Interact musically with soloists by feeding them harmonic colors
- Move beyond static rhythm playing to dynamic, interactive accompaniment
Release date: 03/29/2021 • 5h 04m runtime
Sample lessons
Pentatonic Substitution - Part 1
Modal Chords - Part 1
Blues Phrasing - Part 1
Hybrid Picking Part 1: Rhythm
What's included
30 lessons • 29 charts • 29 Jam Tracks
Creative Control Introduction
Jeffery Marshall is back with another deep dive into creativity through technique and concept. Building on his series Inside and Out, Jeffery takes a practical look at taking basic fretboard and skill knowledge and transferring it into the realm of musicality.
Good Cop, Bad Cop - Part 1
One of the first steps to learning to lead or solo involves playing in boxes or scale positions. In the lead-off lesson in this series, Jeffery talks about getting out of the box and combining tonalities over the blues.
Good Cop, Bad Cop - Part 2
In part 2 of the good cop, bad cop context, Jeffery looks at taking that idea and using it over chord changes.
Good Cop, Bad Cop - Part 3
To avoid sounding "hokey" in a blues setting where major chords are being used, Jeffery talks about using minor tonalities over major V chords.
Pentatonic Substitution - Part 1
Now it's time to look at substituting pentatonic scales to create a new and different feeling.
Pentatonic Substitution - Part 2
In part 2 of pentatonic substitution learning, Jeffery talks about how all of the major and minor chords of a key are relative to each other, helping you nail down what pentatonic scales will work for different chords is a diatonic setting.
Pentatonic Substitution - Part 3
In the next lesson cover pentatonic substitutions, Jeffery discusses creating outside sounds using pentatonic scales over chords you may not have thought about.
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