Slices of Jazz
The foundations of Jazz music are a honored, long time tradition. Join Austin Filingo for eight weeks of core Jazz fundamentals. Each week he will cover a different topic from basic harmony to arranging songs.
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Austin Filingo
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This course will fulfill your weekly hunger for the jazz music. We will discuss all the necessary ingredients to make your guitar playing edible. We will season to taste with the necessary spices like common harmony, intros and outros, navigating common chord progressions, turnarounds, tags, substitutions, simple arrangements and more. This course will include both single line and chordal perspectives.
Release date: 04/27/2020
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8 lessons
This is a topic that Austin gets A LOT of questions about. In this first lesson, he is going to break down a simple way to approach ALL chord progressions using three simple scales.
This week, Austin shows us how to navigate a basic Real Book/Great American Songbook chart. Including getting used to different chord symbols etc., which chord options to use, and what and how to avoid the blue notes on a first time read through of a chart.
Let’s discuss several ways to start or end a tune. This includes using suspended chords, I vi ii V progressions (with substitutions) IV iv options, and other harmonic options.
Lots of jazz tunes have common chord progressions that usually end a tune or a section. In this lesson, we'll talk about song form and various chord substitutions, including tritone substitutions.
This lesson covers common turnarounds, including some common and fool proof turnarounds that everybody on the bandstand should know. Austin also shows us how to create our own!
Everyone always remembers the beginning and the end, and never the middle! Austin covers common way to create endings, and how to best use them in real situations.
What is a chord substitution? Are they necessary? Yes, they create flavor! This week Austin will cover tritone substitutions, diminished substitutions, diatonic substitutions and more.
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