What do you need to know to improvise in Jazz ?

At the creative Guitar school we offer monthly workshops in Jazz , Blues and Flamenco Guitar

What will you learn in my Jazz Guitar workshops

Jazz Guitar

• To master what you need to know to improvise and play jazz the way you would like to
• To identify your weaknesses and strengths so as to develop what your naturally good at
• To choose your path of learning to achieve your goals in the shortest period of time
• To learn what goes through the mind of your top world jazz artists when they play and how you can do the same from the start
• To learn how to turn the whole interpretation of a jazz song into an unforgettable new song
• To learn how to tell a story with your improvisation and never run out of ideas of what to do

What specific knowledge will be presented to all jazz guitar students

1. How to memorise a chart and why
2. What are the minimum chords and scales required to know all over the fingerboard and why
3. How to practice scales and why
4. How to reach a climax in your playing and why
5. How to play chords and define them in your unique manner
6. How to identify what is your unique timbre , how to develop it and why
7. How to be creative and why
8. How to transcribe a solo and why

Jazz 2

1. How to sound contemporary versus classical in your playing and why
2. Lyrical soloing versus chord soloing and why
3. Chordal soling versus non chordal soloing and why
4. Pentatonic soloing over chord progressions and why
5. How to add the blues touch to a jazz standard
6. How to alter the harmony of the existing composition and why
7. How to harmonise a melody with chords
8. Stretching time and playing behind the time

Please feel free to call me or send me an email to make an inquiry on dates,  location, methods of booking  and prices of our monthly workshops in jazz , flamenco and blues guitar.