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?
K1R
Mar 23 2012, 12:01 AM
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.
Alex Feather
Mar 23 2012, 12:16 AM
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!
Great! You did a very good job!!! Now I have something challenging for you! Here is the exercise to practice all the chord tones! It includes all the chord tones all over the neck! This exercise will help you develop your chord tones playing and will improve your picking technique!
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-----------------------|----||
Video would be perfect!!!! I am glad you like it!!!
Alex Feather
Apr 1 2012, 11:26 AM
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!
K1R
Apr 2 2012, 10:07 PM
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! 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.
Hello! It's all good! Just take your time! I am looking forward to hear your recording!
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! How are you doing? I just wanted to follow up and see how is your practice going and if you need any help!
K1R
Apr 10 2012, 03:11 PM
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.
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.
You did a very good job with this exercise! I would suggest to use alternative picking and there is no click, it does sound like your timing is good tho! Let me know if you ready for a new assignment or still need more time to practice this exercise?
K1R
Apr 11 2012, 04:06 PM
Thank you I guess I'm ready for a new assignment. This one is already a part of my practice routine.
Alex Feather
Apr 11 2012, 04:51 PM
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!
You don't have to write a solo I want you to play over the backing track using pentatonic and scales that I suggested It's a good exercise to start playing over the changes! I just want you to jam but also think every time the chord is changing!
K1R
Apr 17 2012, 02:21 PM
Hello, Alex! COuld you send me the backingtrack so I could record a video, please?
K1R
Apr 17 2012, 03:37 PM
Oh, and I also would like to play A mixolydian with flat 6 instead of a minor pentatonic is that okay?
Oh, and I also would like to play A mixolydian with flat 6 instead of a minor pentatonic is that okay?
Hi! Here is the backing track! http://soundcloud.com/alex-feather-akimov/ii-v-i-jam I posted before and for now we will stick with it in a few weeks I will give you a new one The chord changes are: Emi7 - A7 - Dmaj7 You have mentioned that you would like to play A mixolydian b6 you can use it if you like! But mainly I would like you to stick with the pentatonics! Let me know if you have any questions!
Well, here is my take. Sorry for bad audio, I've recorded it through a pc microphone.
You did a very good job! A few issues with timing and some notes were a little off! I like your phrases and some ideas were very very good!!! I think a little more practice and it will be perfect! I have a great exercise that I would like you to start practicing and add it to your warm up routine! Practice it at a very slow tempo and you will see a huge progress in no time! Here is the tab
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 ||---------------------------|----------------------------------------|
Well, here is my take. Sorry for bad audio, I've recorded it through a pc microphone.
Hey hey hey!!! How are you? Just wanted to follow up and see if you are ready for a new assignment! I have a very cool challenge for you!
Alex Feather
May 22 2012, 07:44 AM
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 Emi7 chord I would like you to use E dorian scale
For A7 I want you to combine two scales A mixolydian
A whole tone scale
For D maj7 D major scale 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
Alex Feather
Jun 2 2012, 01:37 AM
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!
K1R
Jun 4 2012, 08:57 PM
Great approach! My take will be here on the weekend.
Great approach! My take will be here on the weekend.
Awesome! I am looking forward to it!
K1R
Jun 10 2012, 06:53 PM
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 Click to view attachment Click to view attachment
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 Click to view attachment Click to view attachment
Good take! It sounded a little out of key? What scales did you play? I use AXE FX ULTRA 2 for recordings and for this take I played on 64 Gretsch I am excited too! This will be a lot of fun!
Good take! It sounded a little out of key? What scales did you play? I use AXE FX ULTRA 2 for recordings and for this take I played on 64 Gretsch I am excited too! This will be a lot of fun!
Yeah, the beggining sounds out. I've tried to use whole tone scale, but it seems like I should redo the take
Yeah, the beggining sounds out. I've tried to use whole tone scale, but it seems like I should redo the take
I don't think you did the whole tone scale over A7 only? Sounds like you have played it through the whole progression that's why it sounded out! Use the scales I gave you and over A7 just add a few notes from the whole tone the rest keep mixolydian! It will give it a nice outside sound but not too much! Try it out and let me know how it goes!
The take was very good! Try to keep this solo a little less busy because the whole point is to develop it gradually one step at the time! Have you heard about Q&A technique? it will fit perfectly into this solo! I liked your ideas a lot! Also your guitar was a little out of tune? I will post a new recording for you tomorrow to give you more ideas!
Hello I just wanted to check and see if you have any questions or need help with anything?
K1R
Dec 19 2012, 08:06 PM
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?
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?
It is a great idea but unfortunately I can't take any students my mentoring program will be closed form January 1st
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