dwa79
Verified buyer
08/06/23
Insightful
Good Course at a threat price. Good intro to playing jazz.
Live Plus: Jazz Insights, Episode 01
Extension Learning Experience from a TrueFire Live Event
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Tim Lerch
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About this course
TrueFire’s Live Plus series enhances the learning experience of select and previously recorded TrueFire Live broadcasts with high-quality video, video-sync tab and notation, looping, jam tracks, Guitar Pro files, and all of the other learning tools available in TrueFire’s desktop, mobile, and streaming apps.
In this edition, Tim Lerch goes deeper and wider on the techniques, creative concepts, and performance approaches presented in the Chordal Improv edition of his Solo Jazz Pathways. Tim demonstrates fresh and original applications and variations of his chordal improvisation principles — and they’re ALL tabbed and video-synced!
You’ll get standard notation and tabs for all of the performance studies. Plus, you’ll be able to use TrueFire’s learning tools to sync the tab and notation to the video lesson. You can also loop or slow down the videos so that you can work with the lessons at your own pace.
Grab your guitar and let’s go Live with Tim Lerch!
In this edition, Tim Lerch goes deeper and wider on the techniques, creative concepts, and performance approaches presented in the Chordal Improv edition of his Solo Jazz Pathways. Tim demonstrates fresh and original applications and variations of his chordal improvisation principles — and they’re ALL tabbed and video-synced!
You’ll get standard notation and tabs for all of the performance studies. Plus, you’ll be able to use TrueFire’s learning tools to sync the tab and notation to the video lesson. You can also loop or slow down the videos so that you can work with the lessons at your own pace.
Grab your guitar and let’s go Live with Tim Lerch!
What you'll learn
- Observe practical application of chordal improvisation concepts
- Discover how to connect inner musical hearing to physical playing
- Experience a performance demonstration of solo jazz guitar
- Learn a practice method: play, sing, stop when they don't match, figure it out, continue
- Understand how singing/vocalizing can improve note choice and improvisation
Release date: 08/20/2020 • 1h 16m runtime
Sample lessons
I-VI-II-V Improv Examples
Discussion
Inversion Examples
Discussion
Blues Around the Block
Overview
Blues Around the Block
Performance
What's included
20 lessons • 7 charts
Live Plus: Jazz Insights, Episode 01
Welcome to Jazz Insights, Episode 01 of Live Plus! Each edition of Live Plus is an extension of a live teaching session with a top TrueFire educator, packed with creative insights, improvised performances and all the spontaneous commentary of a TrueFire Live session.
This Live Plus extension features Tim Lerch, who takes us through some of the techniques, creative concepts and harmonic approaches found in his course Solo Jazz Pathways: Chordal Improv.
All the performances are tabbed and notated, and you'll be able to sync the tab to the video using TrueFire's Learning Tools. All the backing tracks are included, and you can loop and slow it down to work at your own pace.
Ready to get started? Grab your guitar, and let's tune in!
This Live Plus extension features Tim Lerch, who takes us through some of the techniques, creative concepts and harmonic approaches found in his course Solo Jazz Pathways: Chordal Improv.
All the performances are tabbed and notated, and you'll be able to sync the tab to the video using TrueFire's Learning Tools. All the backing tracks are included, and you can loop and slow it down to work at your own pace.
Ready to get started? Grab your guitar, and let's tune in!
Welcome Tim Lerch
Today, we've very excited to have Tim Lerch with us in the studio! He'll be talking to us today about his new TrueFire course, Solo Jazz Pathways: Chordal Improv. Before we get into it, Tim will play us in with a tune and we'll be on our way!
About Tim Lerch
Welcome to this live broadcast from TrueFire Studios, we're very excited to have Tim Lerch here this week. We started talking to Tim Lerch years ago trying to get him in, being someone who does something special on the instrument.
He's one of the busiest and well-respected guitarists around today, playing in the legendary Pacific Northwest Gypsy jazz band Pearl Django. He's an internationally renowned solo guitarist with two of his own solo records and a sought after session guitarist.
Let's check in with Tim and get this show on the road! Buckle up, because you're gonna love it.
He's one of the busiest and well-respected guitarists around today, playing in the legendary Pacific Northwest Gypsy jazz band Pearl Django. He's an internationally renowned solo guitarist with two of his own solo records and a sought after session guitarist.
Let's check in with Tim and get this show on the road! Buckle up, because you're gonna love it.
The Stars Align & Influences
Brad and Tim talk a bit about how Tim wound up doing a course with us, and about what he does on the guitar that's different from anyone else.
Tim talks about his influences, many of them not guitar players: musicians like piano players like Bill Evans, Art Tatum, and composers like Nelson Riddle and Billy May.
Tim talks about his influences, many of them not guitar players: musicians like piano players like Bill Evans, Art Tatum, and composers like Nelson Riddle and Billy May.
Styles of Jazz
Tim talks a little bit about some of the stylistic elements different type of jazz guitarists do and how they approach playing the changes and getting through a jazz tune.
Trivia & Viewer Locations
Some viewers shout out from around the world, and a quick trivia question about Tim before we move on to more content from his course.
Solo Jazz Performance Examples
Tim gets into what's in the course, which will give you a vocabulary of chordal passages that accompany the melody of a song. Here we'll look at how to build melodies from these chordal "neighborhoods" and how to add in the altered to the equation.
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Reviews
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SwissDok
Verified buyer
07/24/22
useful transcriptions of some cool stuff Tim is playing and showing during the interview, and there is a lot of them in it! Because of the listing easy to find.
Starglazer
Verified buyer
07/29/21
a great supplement and the teacher good.A good Selection, too bad their wasn’t, more.Thanks.
dougbrown
Verified buyer
11/04/20
Tim Lerch ,Ted Greene is smiling from Heaven .Loved him have books from 70/80ys hard to understand .You talk through the video and now I understand more.Chords and their applications, different ways to play the same chord, with finger melody, you can put to use right away EXCELLENT lesson, and love the information about you ,the talking in the video more personal thankyou Truefire
Jeff H.
09/27/20
Great Supplement
This is a great supplement to his "complete" courses. Initially, I was disappointed there were not more performances. But don't let that stop you from getting this. Tim is such a great teacher and where this course (is it a course?) lacks a lot of tabbed performances, it makes up for this with tabbed teaching examples which are fantastic and insightful. He presents and demonstrates concepts that you can take and develop well beyond just the examples. The performance is more of a "here, do what I do," whereas the examples are more of a "here is an idea, see what you can do with it." If you are looking for something to appeal to your creative side, this will be a valuable aid as it has been for me. Besides, Tim is such an incredible teacher. He is so humble. His genuine happiness while playing is infectious.
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