Fred Sokolow’s Jazz Guitar Special Combo
Playing and Understanding Jazz Guitar
Jazz is one of the most challenging and satisfying styles of music you can play on the guitar. This video lesson presents a very clear and thorough introduction to jazz guitar. You will study all the licks, chords, scales and theory that you will need to know to get started. In this lesson, Fred Sokolow shows you: Chord construction and chord types, including inversions and diminished chords, Scalewise progressions and how to use them, Circle-of-fifths progressions and how to play and recognize them, How to improvise solos using scales and chord-based licks, How to solo over II-V-I standard changes. 75 Mins
Jazz Chord Solos for Beginners
In this DVD, you’ll learn six timeless tunes from start to finish: how to play backup while you sing them, and how to play a beautiful chord-melody solo/instrumental for each song. The tunes are arranged for beginners: there are no difficult chords, and Fred goes over the tricky spots in each tune before playing it…then you’ll watch him replay the song, slower, on a split screen with close-ups of both hands. Just for fun, Fred includes the rarely-heard introductory verses to three of the songs. Best of all, you can read all six arrangements (tablature, music and chord grids) in the PDF booklet that comes with this DVD. Chord soloing (playing the melody and chords at the same time) is a very complete and satisfying guitar style. This lesson will get you started and Fred’s relaxed teaching style makes it easy. 84 Mins
Titles include: Summertime, Fly Me To the Moon, Georgia On My Mind, It Had To Be You, What a Wonderful World and Ain’t Misbehavin’
Understanding Chord Progressions
When you know how chord progressions work, it’s much easier to learn new songs. And when you understand a song’s chord structure, you’re not just memorizing letter names; in fact, you can play the tune in any key. Learning how songs are put together also develops your musical ear and enhances your appreciation of music in general.
In this lesson, Fred draws from several musical genres (rock, blues, jazz, pop and country) to illustrate many standard types of chord movement and song structures. You’ll learn about chord families, the twelve bar blues, circle-of-fifths changes, diatonic chord movement and more. Along the way you’ll learn how to play and comprehend the progressions of many classic tunes, including All of Me, Every Day I Have the Blues, Blue Skies, Your Cheatin’ Heart, Blue Moon, Mister Sandman, Honeysuckle Rose, Like a Rolling Stone, Ain’t Misbehavin’, I Got Rhythm and more.
Fred explains everything in terms of the guitar fretboard, so you’ll not only learn to play these songs, you’ll learn how to use your guitar to understand music theory.109 Mins
Bonus tracks: Fred talks about his Songbook Series
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