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Yes Jazzy Beatle, but Volume 1 is going to take some time..unless you don't work
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11-09-2015 09:17 PM
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Jazzy Beatle did you have all 9 modules delivered already?
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Originally Posted by guitarplayer007
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How does it look?
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Originally Posted by NSJ
Set of principles more to do with things like note duration and melodic context than with range.
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Originally Posted by guitarplayer007
The real value of this seems to be the vast reservoir of etudes and exercises-which seem to a very exhaustive and extensive survey on a limited but funfsmental concept -how to create lines from dominant 7th harmony and to do this efficienctly, in a "best practice" sort of way, on the fingerboard.
The clear goal of the exercises is to get all that under your fingers and in your ears, and internalize it to the greatest extent possible so you can use fragments or variations of the same in a spontaneous context without thinking.
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Originally Posted by matt.guitarteacher
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Originally Posted by NSJ
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He does introduce II V later on in the course as well as Major Arpeggios
Ken
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Originally Posted by MarkRhodes
Well, let's not make it more complicated than it actually is We're talking about Blues. This course is a very simple one in terms of its fundamental goal. It seems it's is only dealing with the most fundamental aspect of bebop: how to play blues in the bebop way . As Bird said to BB, " you know, BB, we're the same, it's all from the blues ". Thus, concretely:
How to play over a I7-IV7-V7 using miixo patterns, the super locrian (i.e., The 7th mode of melodic minor, i.e., the good old altered scale, which is used over altered dominant seventh chords ), and it looks like he's got the Dorian patterns in there for the invitwble ii chords
Looks like the final chapter, which is still in development, is how to play Bird blues . Which we know as Charlie Parker's chord substitution system for the conventional 12 bar blues.
So, the material doesn't seem that complex, as I said even some of the latter stuff I already knew . But what I also know is that I need to significantly improve my blues playing. No blues, no Jass.
Again, the real value of this course stems from the tone of exercises and études . I firmly believe that really internalizing them will improve significantly my understanding and ability to play blues .
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Keep us posted Navdeep
Btw how long have you been studying jazz?
Ken
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Navdeep,
Have you tried any of the Rhythm Templates, I think that's a pretty cool idea he has there.
Ken
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Sounds like this course can accomplish what I am looking for - and that is saving me from myself and keeping me from skipping ahead by not giving me plenty of examples to illustrate each idea/concept. I am going to give it a try later on in the year when I can create some time.
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FYI Sheryl Bailey just posted a new class on studying 10 bebop etudes-from Body and Soul to RC to modal playing
20 bucks
https://truefire.com/essentials-guit...op-etudes/c947
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I used to take lessons directly from her at Truefire.
Ken
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BTW those etudes were inspired by me when I was taking lessons from her
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Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
there's a lot of good material in here that I don't see overlapping with most other guitar books I've seen. I've seen them in a lot of NON-guitar books , but this one just deals with little more of the specifics of instrument.
The basic book version I have is $50.00 and runs 325 pages. I think it's easily worth that, if only for the blues targeting études and targeting patterns exercises.
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He also focuses on Rhythm and Syncopation in every Module
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Originally Posted by NSJ
Is this a good opportunity for an online study group here at the Forum?
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Yes I agree Jasaco
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Originally Posted by jasaco
I've replaced my usual daily scale and arpeggio practice warm-up with the arpeggio studies on page 31 of the workbook . I'm trying to practice them with all three chords and fingerings, but I'm also improvising using them within the practice format. Because, as he says, what we wind up playing in a live situation is merely fragments or variations of fragments of what we've studied extensively . That's not the whole scale, using part of the scale, etc. . I think being able to use these studies seamlessly, as part of almost being second nature , will really help.
I've discovered, well I already kind of knew it, that my descending arpeggios are much weaker than my ASC arpeggios.
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Originally Posted by guitarplayer007
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Yes this is the strongest I've ever been playing Arpeggios from highest to lowest and I also can play the the Arpeggios using the cycle of 5ths from the highest note of all 7 fingerings without even thinking. Of course I've been doing this since I joined on 8/17/15
Ken
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That having the modules open up monthly is a great idea...
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Originally Posted by NSJ
Curious is the course has fingerings for arpeggios from lowest available note on the neck to the highest available note on the neck? I hear instructors talk about it, but always leave fingering up to the player. Like you my descending arp's are weaker.
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