A Nuts and Bolts Approach to Chords and Melody Combo – Rolly Brown
CHORDS: This lesson is designed to set you on the road to playing chordal swing and jazz guitar with the freedom of an accomplished improvisor. It can help you hold a large repertoire of chords in your head, without recourse to “chord dictionaries” or other written material, and to then learn how these chords go together into sequences commonly found in swing and jazz standards and other music of the past century and beyond.
Material covered includes:
• The simple “240 chord” exercise: 3 minutes a day to develop a great chord repertoire.
• The five stringsets for 4 note chord voicings.
• The 3 basic chord families; how they work with each other, and how the art of “chord substitution” provides an infinite amount of variability.
• The 3 most common systems of chord progression and their variations.
• How to start applying this material to actual tunes.
102 minutes • Level 2 • Tab/Music material is on the DVD as a PDF file
MELODY: This lesson is designed to start you on the road to playing improvisationally over all manner of chord progressions. It will teach you how, with just a couple basic scales, you can understand how all of the twelve tones fit into a framework for soloing, and, then, how you can develop great soloing chops without even thinking about scales.
Material covered includes:
• Major and Blues scales; the basic building blocks.
• Understanding how each note sounds within a key signature by training your ear.
• “Altered” and “Hybrid Blues” Scales, for more advanced ear training.
• Pentatonic major scales for country/rock guitar.
• How to approach solo fingerstyle Blues improvisation.
• Rolly’s 3 step process for non-scale soloing, based on chord shapes and arpeggios.
• Chord melody playing.
• Physical mechanisms for expressive soloing.
• Making your music sound human
80 minutes • Level 2 • Tab/Music material is on the DVD as a PDF file
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