Demonstration Videos
These videos will be posted in the near future. They will consist of very brief demonstrations of some of the things I may have gone over with my students. These are intended for my students. Of course, anyone can watch them and comment upon them. This is what I have planned so far:
Guitar Videos
- The three Chord Families 4-note harmonization of G major scale on strings 6/4/3/2
- 4-note harmonization of C major scale on strings 4/3/2/1
- Freddie Greene style comping
- The first 16 bars of Coltrane’s “Giant Steps” using sequences of 6/9, 7th, 13, 6/9
- ii-V sequence using minor 7th->13b9
- … to be continued…
Piano Videos
- Basic open 4-note voicing of major scale
- Use of the sostenuto pedal (Rhapsody in Blue and slow/med stride-style)
- Re-harmonizing 11-V-! using sequences via altered dominant 7th chords – (G13b9->G7h +5#9)
- A progression I learned from Arnold Schoenberg
- Use of the Jazz Melodic Minor scale – (Ab MM/G Alt); (B MM/ Bb Alt)
- A chord’s upper structure and good-sounding comp chords I learned from Mark Levine
- … to be continued…