Introduction to Jazz Guitar

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Learn how to improvise, and build your foundations on the guitar using a tried and tested performance and song based method. Anyone over the age of 15 can sign up!

Language English

Karan Khosla

Next Batch 1st July 2023

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Learn how to improvise, and build your foundations on the guitar using a tried and tested performance and song based method. Anyone over the age of 15 can sign up!

Language English

Next Batch 1st July 2023

Karan Khosla

Sign Up

What You Will Learn

Learn how to play “tunes” and songs and in the process learn all the required techniques.

Learn the foundations of harmony, how to accompany others.

Learn how to solo and improvise using triads, arpeggios, scales and vocabulary.

Learn how to get “band stand” and jam ready!

Pre-requisites –

Must be curious and hungry to learn! Must be over the age of 15. No prior experience necessary.

Detailed Syllabus

Level 1
  • Introduction to Harmony
  • Play the blues
  • More Advanced Blues
  • Your first transcription
  • Introduction to soloing using the Minor Blues
  • Triads and Walking Bass
Level 2
  • Introduction to other “forms” from the “American Songbook of Jazz”
  • Triads 2
  • Introduction to chromaticism
  • Essential Jazz Vocabulary 2
Level 3
  • Introduction to “upper structures”
  • Essential Jazz Vocabulary 2
  • Playing over different tempos
  • Introduction to Arpeggios
Level 4
  • Introduction to Modes
  • Using the modes over simple chord progressions
  • Applying Modes to the previous “tunes.”
  • Mixing Modes, arpeggios and triads
  • Chromaticism 2.0