Wedding guitarist playing classical guitar, Jazz guitar & Spanish Guitar in East Sussex, West Sussex, Brighton, London, Kent & Surrey.
I’m available for weddings, events, functions & parties & festivals in the South East covering Brighton, London, Kent, Surrey, Hampshire, East Sussex & West Sussex.
Here’s a video of Brighton jazz guitar duo, Paul & Matt playing the jazz standard here’s that rainy day!
Jazz in East Sussex and West Sussex.
Here’s an extra bit of prep if you fancy working on C Lydian Dominant scale in all 5 positions.
Here I demonstrate the scale in the same positions as the normal C major 5 shapes but all I am doing is flattening the 7th (B to Bb) and sharpening the 4th (F to F#)
A good idea for an exercise would be to run a C maj scale in one chosen position then play the C Lydian Dominant scale in the same position! Then repeat for the other 4 positions!
You don’t have to have these down for this Sunday, I just thought I’d give you some more stuff to think about in the meantime as the more positions you can play, the more sleek your solos will be!
As a reference, here’s the first video of C major (ignore the arpeggios contained within for now)
And here is the C Lydian Dominant scale in the same positions!
Really try and hear the difference in sound to the above scales.
See you this Sunday 14th, 11am Brunswick Pub.
Or maybe even this Saturday at Rialto (11 Dyke Rd) for a fantastic jazz guitar duo!
Next classes are…
Sat Jan 24th,
Sat Feb 21st,
Sat March 21st
£20 each, £55 for three
Here’s 2 videos of the guitar duo this Saturday..
Guitarist Paul Richards hosts the Rialto Jazz nights in the heart of Brighton, featuring a wide variety of amazing guest musicians on Fridays & Saturdays in Baccal’s bar!
Listings
Saturday 13th December, 8pm, £free
Jazz & Latin Guitar duo – Matt Wall & Paul Richards. A big hit every year at Rye Jazz Festival & beyond, the duo will perform intricate arrangements of Jazz & Brazilian pieces on classical guitars.
Friday 19th December, 9pm, £free
Double bassist Steve Thompson & guitarist Paul Richards will be performing tunes from their latest trio album “Empatia” exploring the music of Brazil, Argentina & Venezuela sprinkled with a good dose of Jazz.
Saturday, 20th December, 9pm, £free
Vocalist Ela Southgate’s beautiful, rich voice and subtle phrasing performing well loved jazz standards and Bossa Nova classics accompanied by Paul Richards on classical guitar.
Video of trio album Empatia,
Hi folks, well it’s time for getting into Tritone substitutions and a bit of lydian dominant!
It sounds horrendous I know, but we’ll look at how to make it REALLY simple so you can use these in both your chordal comping for slick, hip chord changes using chord substitutions and single note line soloing!
These concepts are used on the blues and a range of jazz standards, essential stuff for any jazz guitarist.
This is the prep, have a look at the C lydian dominant scale on these videos,
its, C D E F# G A Bb
Just a C mixolydian scale with a sharpened 4th!
If you don’t get round to looking at it, never mind as we will be looking at many ways how to employ tritone subs without the use of this scale. Arpeggios, scale fragments, melodic cells etc….
Sun 14th December, Brunswick pub, Hove, 11am til 1.30pm.
Next class of Sussex Jazz Guitar School after that are …
Sat 24th Jan 2015
Sat 21st Feb 2015
Sat 21st March 2015
£55 for 3 specified classes
We are upstairs again so I really do have to limit spaces. The were really cosy last class as the room was chocabloc with you all. To guarantee a place, book in advance. £20
See you Saturday 14th for Tritone Mayhem, Lydian Dom madness!
