Diminished Lightning Vol.1 - Gypsy Jazz Guitar
What you'll learn
- Get a foundation in Diminished, and how it can applied to take your music to the next level!
- Learn how to play variations and inversions of the Diminished Triad and Diminished 7th Chords!
- Learn Gypsy Jazz tricks and fingerings for Major and Minor chords as well Half-Diminished!
- Learn how to build chord melodies and walking chord progressions!
- Master the most commonly used Major and Minor chord inversions!
- Excercies to strengthen your improvisation muscles!
- Create complex passages of music with simple building blocks!
- Easily add density to almost any Jazz chord progression!
- Approach chords from multiple directions
- "Talk" with your chord progressions
Requirements
- While this course is taught on guitar, the concepts within can be applied to almost every other instrument!
Description
Dive into the world of diminished with this Gypsy Jazz Guitar course!
Diminished has been used since the time of Bach to create tension in music. It is one of the core musical devices in Jazz and music in general. Diminished was employed extensively by pioneering guitar virtuosos Django Reinhardt, Charlie Christian, Eddie Lang and many modern players as well!
Diminished is the Swiss Army knife of music. It serves many purposes. By mastering the placement of diminished harmony, you will be able to express complex musical ideas with a few simple shapes. In the same way that words make up sentences, Diminished will enable your playing to flow with a natural, speech like fluidity. It is the glue of Jazz.
In this first installment of the Diminished Lightning series, we will begin our exploration into the power of diminished. We will learn the basics of diminished and how it can be used to add momentum to chord progressions. We will take a thorough look at how to use diminished as a lead-in to the most often used chords in music.
Diminished Lightning Vol. 1 is designed for beginner-intermediate level guitar players. This course will give you a strong foundation in how diminished functions. Learning the fundamentals of diminished will make getting the hang of more advanced soloing much easier.
Who this course is for:
- This is an intermediate level course, but it is contstructed so that even a beginner can get into it!
Instructor
- 4.3 Instructor Rating
- 253 Reviews
- 1,650 Students
- 11 Courses
---- AVAILABLE FOR PRIVATE LESSONS ----
Alex Simon also offer private, 1-on-1 lessons over Zoom, or in person if you are in NYC. Email alexsimon1@gmail.com for more information.
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Inspired by the legendary Gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt, Alex Simon
imbues dazzling technique and lyrical, impressionistic expression with a
twenty-first century sensibility.
Alex Simon has performed at The Guggenheim, The Rainbow Room, The Roxy, Cafe Medi, St. Mazie, and many other of New York City's finest venues.
Simon’s repertoire includes Early Jazz and Musette Classics, Tangos,
Bossas, Boleros, Rumbas, Mambos, Gypsy Valses, and original works.