Hi K1R!!!! I am glad you joined! Two teachers is better! I will give you a very fun and interesting material to learn and practice!
And you will double your progress! I will tell you everything I know and will teach you tricks and secrets!
I have a few questions for you! It will give me a better idea about your goals!
-What are your goals?
-What is your weakness?
-What is your strongest point?
-Your favorite guitar players?
Hi Alex
Recently I've started to listen to a lot of jazz and I just fell in love with it, so I want to play jazz myself. My goals are to learn jazz theory, freely improvise using modes, arpeggios, intervals and so on and to compose my own music
Well, in my opinion my playing is good enough, but theory still needs some work. Not to say I'm bad at theory, but I'm not satisfied with my improvisation, as I can't use theory freely.
Regarding the strongest point, it is easy for me to come up with a melody
At the moment my favorites are: George Benson, John Scofield, Guthrie Govan and Carlos Santana.
Great! I like the same players as you are!!!
Nice tasty guitarists!
Playing jazz is not as complicated as it might seem!
If you will simplify it you will end up with II-V-I chord progressions!
So as they say: "If you want to learn jazz, learn to play over II-V-I"
That's what we will be working on!
I have a cool chord progression for you
It's Emi7 - A7 -Dmaj7
Here it is!
http://soundcloud.com/alex-feather-akimov/ii-v-i-jam
In order to play over chord changes you need to learn how to play chord tones!
Chord tones:
If you will analyze a chord you will have notes that this chord is made of
those are the chord tones!
I will give you an example:
E minor 7
E - G -B - D
The most important chord tones are III and VII because that's how you can tell the difference between major and minor chord and also know what kind of VII is there!
In our case it's G and D
So what I want you to do is first to analyze each chord and find III and VII for each of them!
Please post it here and I will show an exercise that you can do to practice your chord tones!
E minor 7
E - G - B - D
III - G
VII - D
A 7
A - C# - E - G
III - C#
VII - G
D major 7
D - F# - A - C#
III - F#
VII - C#
Chord tones exercise
Track 1
E minor 7
S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S
E||--------------------10---3--------------------15-|
B||------------------8----3------------15---3-15----|
G||--------7------------------------12----0---------|
D||------5-----------------------12-----------------|
A||----5----------------------10--------------------|
E||--3----------------------------------------------|
A 7
S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S
-----15-------9----------------------------|
--14------------8-------------------2------|
---------------------12-----6-----0--------|
-----------17-----11----5------------------|
--------16----------------------4-------10-|
------------------------------3-------9----|
D major 7
S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S
----------9-----------2-9-----------14----9---|
------------7-------2-------------7----14---7-|
-------11-----6-------------------------------|
----11----------4-----------------------------|
--9---------------4---------------------------|
----------------------------------------------|
D major 7
S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S
--------------------------------------------|----||
----7-----------------------------2---------|----||
--6---6------11---6-----------------6-------|----||
----------11----4---------------4-----4-L-L-|----||
--------9---------------------4-------------|----||
--------------------2-----------------------|----||
Great! Shall I record a video of me playing it?
Hi! I just wanted to follow up and check on your progress!
So you have any questions or need help with something please let me know!
Hi! I'm working on the exercise and I'm actually ready to record it, but this week was very busy so I didn't have tume to record the video. I will post my take as soon as I can. Sorry for the delay.
Hi Alex! I'm really really sorry for such a huge delay, I've had busy weeks, but know I have more free time. Here is my video:
It is not at 100 bpm, as 100 bpm is too fast for me at the moment.
Thank you I guess I'm ready for a new assignment. This one is already a part of my practice routine.
Perfect! So now when you know about the chord tones we can start applying it to your playing!
We still have the same chord progression
E mi7 - A7 - Dmaj7
So let's do that:
First time through
E minor pentatonic over E mi7
D major Pentatonic over A 7
B minor pentatonic over D maj7
Second time through:
E minor Dorian over E mi7
A minor pentatonic over A7
D major scale over Dmaj7
You are free to use any shapes you want
If you need help please let me know!
So I have to make up a solo?
Hello, Alex! COuld you send me the backingtrack so I could record a video, please?
Oh, and I also would like to play A mixolydian with flat 6 instead of a minor pentatonic is that okay?
Uploading my take tomorrow
Well, here is my take. Sorry for bad audio, I've recorded it through a pc microphone.
E ||---------------------------|----------------------------------------|
B ||---------------------------|----------------------------------------|
G ||o5--5--5--5--5--5--5--5----|--5--5--5--5--5--5--5--5--5--5--5--5----|
D ||o--------------------------|----------------------------------------|
A ||---------------------------|----------------------------------------|
E ||---------------------------|----------------------------------------|
----------------------------|---------------------------------------|||
----------------------------|---------------------------------------|||
--5--5--5--5--5--5--5--5----|--5--5--5--5--5--5--5--5--5--5--5--5--o|||
----------------------------|--------------------------------------o|||
----------------------------|---------------------------------------|||
----------------------------|---------------------------------------|||
-------------3--3----------|--------------3--3----------|
-------4--4--------4--4----|--------4--4--------4--4----|
o5--5----------------------|--5--5----------------------|
o--------------------------|----------------------------|
---------------------------|----------------------------|
---------------------------|----------------------------|
--------------3--3----------|--------------3--3---------|||
--------4--4--------4--4----|--------4--4--------4--4---|||
--5--5----------------------|--5--5--------------------o|||
----------------------------|--------------------------o|||
----------------------------|---------------------------|||
----------------------------|---------------------------|||
-6--3----------------------|--6--3----------------------|
----------4--6--3----------|-----------4--6--3----------|
o------5-----------5--3----|--------5-----------5--3----|
o--------------------------|----------------------------|
---------------------------|----------------------------|
---------------------------|----------------------------|
--6--3----------------------|--6--3---------------------|||
-----------4--6--3----------|-----------4--6--3---------|||
--------5-----------5--3----|--------5-----------5--3--o|||
----------------------------|--------------------------o|||
----------------------------|---------------------------|||
----------------------------|---------------------------|||
-6--3--------------------6--3----------------------|
----------4--6--3-----------------4--6--3----------|
o------5-----------5--3--------5-----------5--3----|
o--------------------------------------------------|
---------------------------------------------------|
---------------------------------------------------|
--6--3--------------6--3----------------|
--------4-----------------4-------------|
-----------5--4--3-----------5--4--3----|
----------------------------------------|
----------------------------------------|
----------------------------------------|
--6--3--------------------6--3----------------------|
-----------4--6--3-----------------4--6--3----------|
--------5-----------5--3--------5-----------5--3----|
----------------------------------------------------|
----------------------------------------------------|
----------------------------------------------------|
--6--3--------------6--3---------------|||
--------4-----------------4------------|||
-----------5--4--3-----------5--4--3--o|||
--------------------------------------o|||
---------------------------------------|||
---------------------------------------|||
-6--4--3-------------------------------------------|
-------------------6--4--3-------------------------|
o---------7--5--3--------------------7--5--3-------|
o---------------------------6--5--3----------------|
----------------------------------------------6----|
---------------------------------------------------|
----------------------------------------------------|
----------------------------------------------------|
----------------------------------------------------|
--------6--5--3-----------------------------3--5----|
--5--3-----------------------------3--5--6----------|
-----------------6--4--3--3--4--6-------------------|
-----------------------4--6--8--3--4--6-------------|
--------------4--6--8--------------------3--4--6----|
-----3--5--7----------------------------------------|
--6-------------------------------------------------|
----------------------------------------------------|
----------------------------------------------------|
--6--4--3-------------------------------------------|
--------------------6--4--3-------------------------|
-----------7--5--3--------------------7--5--3-------|
-----------------------------6--5--3----------------|
-----------------------------------------------6----|
----------------------------------------------------|
----------------------------------------------------|
----------------------------------------------------|
----------------------------------------------------|
--------6--5--3-----------------------------3--5----|
--5--3-----------------------------3--5--6----------|
-----------------6--4--3--3--4--6-------------------|
-----------------------4--6--8--3--4--6------------|||
--------------4--6--8--------------------3--4--6---|||
-----3--5--7--------------------------------------o|||
--6-----------------------------------------------o|||
---------------------------------------------------|||
---------------------------------------------------|||
It's nice to hear from you!
So for this week assignment I would like you to continue playing over this backing track
http://soundcloud.com/alex-feather-akimov/ii-v-i-jam
For A7 I want you to combine two scales
A mixolydian
http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/scalegenerator
A whole tone scale
http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/scalegenerator
For D maj7
D major scale
http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/scalegenerator
Let me know if you have any questions!
Next week is gonna be very exciting because we will try a new approach!!!
So stay tuned
I have prepared a new assignment for you! It will be the same as collab but just you and me!
Here is the track! I have recorded 8 bars to give you some ideas now it's your turn!
http://soundcloud.com/alex-feather-akimov/k1rmentoring
Please upload it the same way with your track mixed in and the rest of the backing track playing!
I played E dorian over E minor 7
A mixolydian over A 7
And mixed D major scale and B minor pentatonic over D maj7 chord
I would like you to continue my solo for 8 bars only! And I will add another take to it!
This is a very good exercise and it will help you to bring your playing to the next level!
Let me know if you have any questions!
Great approach! My take will be here on the weekend.
Here is my take I'm getting reeaally exited about this Looking forward to your take. Oh, and by the way, I would be very gratefull if you told me how I can reproduce your sound
step2_guitar_only.mp3 ( 3.17MB )
: 104
step2.mp3 ( 3.17MB )
: 106
I will upload my take tomorrow
Here it is.
with.mp3 ( 3.17MB )
: 126
without.mp3 ( 3.17MB )
: 98
Hello Alex! With the winter holidays I've got a month of absolutely free time and I was thinking about renewing our mentoring programm. What do you think?
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