The Art of Augmented - Intermediate Gypsy Jazz Guitar
What you'll learn
- Boost your solos and accompaniment with Augmented!
- Master position changing to increase the accuracy and speed of your playing!
- Learn licks that will improve your down stroke picking technique!
- Use Augmented to tranistion between chords!
- Inject dreamscape phrasing into your solos!
- Unlock the entire guitar neck with a single augmented lick!
- Get powerful Gypsy Jazz augmented patterns!
- Learn how to carefully use the metronome to practice very fast passages!
Requirements
- This is an intermediate course. Please check out my beginner's courses before taking this course.
Description
Use Augmented to add a strange and dreamy color to your guitar playing!
Master the basics of the powerful Augmented sound! One of the most useful devices in music, Augmented has been employed in Jazz, Rock, Pop, Classical music and more to evoke a sense of wonder and other-worldliness.
Augmented is a simple and easy to learn concept that will imbue your music with an unusual harmonic beauty. In this course we will dive deep into what Augmented is, how to play it, and when it can be used.
Master the guitar with the elegance of Augmented!
This intermediate/advanced course is taught from a Gypsy Jazz guitar perspective. You will learn the ins and outs of how Augmented can be used to substitute for Major, Minor, and Dominant chords. We will also get into some virtuoso licks and arpeggios that will send your fingers flying from one end of the guitar to the other!
Getting the hang of augmented has a secondary effect of greatly increasing your sense of where things are on the guitar neck. Sign up now to take your solos, rhythm playing, and original compositions to the next level with Augmented!
Who this course is for:
- Anyone who wants to get better at guitar
Instructor
- 4.3 Instructor Rating
- 258 Reviews
- 1,665 Students
- 11 Courses
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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.