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Jazz
The three Jazz Tutors available provide a course of study ranging from playing through simple chordal progressions to complex substitution and soloing techniques.
Starting with the Primer pack, it is assumed that the student can already play both major and minor scales and is familiar with arpeggio patterns.

 
Take a look at the manuscript and listen to a Real Audio sound sample of an extract from Jazz Primer No.11.
 

Introductory package for beginners includes:- II-V-I lines in both arpeggio and scalar forms, chromatic movement of lines, playing through minor progressions, use of altered tones and rhythmic variation.

 

Complete solo included with play along facility.

Projects include:

Arpeggio playing, inner-lines, altered chords, warm up techniques and solo construction. Backtrack section contains standard jazz progression in various styles in the keys of D minor, C major, F major, G major and G minor.

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Inter/Advanced Tutor develops the ideas in Primer Jazz and includes the techniques :- Rhythmic displacement, upper and lower neighbour tones, chromatic approach tones, modal ideas, left hand techniques and playing over the bar line.

 

Complete solo included with play along facility.

Projects include:

Repeated rhythmic figures, wide interval playing, substitution principles and syncopated rhythms. Backtrack section includes standard jazz progression in the following keys: E flat major, G minor.

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Advanced jazz guitar techniques include the following:- Flat five substitution, lines in fourths, triadic substitution, contemporary and modern rhythm changes, scales built from the lydian mode, diminished lines and wide interval playing.

 

Extended solo included with play along facility.

Projects include:

Quartal harmony, movement of a half step, exploiting the flattened fifth, combining major arpeggios. Backtrack section contains standard jazz progression in various styles including rhythm changes in G, altered chord progressions and two lydian backtracks.

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