Creative improv & practice 10th feb

We will be looking at creative long lines outlining chord changes this week!

Please bring pen, paper and your instrument.

Sunny side will be used as the vehicle to work on and can be used on any jazz standard. Chord chart below

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Time: Feb 10, 2021 06:30 PM London

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Creative Improv & Practise, 3/2/21


Hi jazzers,

 
Thanks to those who attended last week and thank you for your kind emails regarding how the class helped to structure and put a creative spark into your practice whilst learning how to create authentic sounding jazz lines.
 
This Weds we will look at how to improvise through the tune “On the Sunny Side of the street” whilst nailing the changes, outlining the harmony.
 
You don’t need to have attended last week to understand what we are doing this week.
It’s helpful to have your instruments at hand so you can run through some of the examples.
 
Please find below,
1. Payment info
2. Zoom link
 
See you Weds!

1. Pay £10 by Weds

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Time: Feb 3, 2021 06:30 PM London

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7 scale shapes, Sussex Jazz Guitar School

In our quest for mastery over the fingerboard and to be able to create long, flowing jazz lines flowing between shapes so we are not stuck in position, here is a diagram of all the 7 scale shapes I use.
The   CAGED system seems to miss 2, thus missing out a mountain of possibilities.

As a reference system, where the 1st finger is on the 6th string you can call each position terms such as… first finger on 1st fret –  F Ionian or position 1, or the 1st finger on 3rd fret – G Dorian or position 2…. etc..

The red notes are the extra  notes added to ensure 3 notes per string to develop the twisting, turning, spiralling lines.

click on it for full screen or to print out.

 

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Creative Practising & improvisation for all instruments

Wednesday 27th Jan, 6.30pm TIL 7.30pm
Hi there! I’ll be showing you a variety of improvisation approaches and how to practise them effectively to ensure maximum learning, getting out of any practise ruts.

Musicians can work at their own level using these concepts and apply these to whichever chords, arpeggios, tunes etc they know. So whatever your level you can access this class and use it to further your understanding of whatever musical knowledge you already have.

We will be looking at the tune Sunny Side of the Street in the key of F for applying these concepts to a tune.  You can work on as little or as much of the tune as you feel comfortable. See the chart below in ireal pro format, printable.

It would help if you know what a 2,5,1 progression is and other points such as playing arpeggios, the tune Autumn leaves or any standards of your choice, the 1,2,3,5 pattern (ie, in C it would be C,D,E,G).  But again, it doesn’t matter as everyone can apply the concepts to whatever they know.

If you click on “going” on the Facebook event that would be great.

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Here’s the Zoom link and payment info

1. Pay £10 by Weds

 PayPal.me/paulrichardsguitar

Select “friends and family” so as not to incur a charge.

Or

Paul Richards

Ref, Jazz

Sort code, 40 47 26

Account number, ‪71654179

2.  Topic: Paul Richards’s Zoom Meeting
Time: Jan 27, 2021 06:30 PM London

Join Zoom Meeting
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15th Oct, Sussex Jazz Guitar School

Triad pairs, outside and scale notes, creating sequences and melodies

We will focus this week’s class on flying around the fretboard using triad pairs as a basis for improvising and coming up with many interesting ways to combine these together with chromatic and scale notes. How to relate them to certain chords. Looking at slash chords. This will also be used in chord melody soloing.

Your playing will really come alive with the approaches I will show you in this class and you will deepen your fretboard knowledge, note targeting and “Legato” feel and sound.

We will be using the whole length of the guitar neck and all string sets.

There will be plenty of steps involved so please have a note book, blank TAB , blank chord diagrams.

A good starting point so we are on the same page will be to know all the triad shapes of C major on all string sets.

C major triad ,

Root – C   (In Blue on diagram below)

3rd – E

5th -G

click or press on the picture below to view full screen.

 

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