Description:
Guitar Instruction for the Serious Improvisor is a course of study designed to train the intermediate to advanced student to use the chord progression of a song as a skeleton around which to improvise. This is a stylistically-neutral course focusing on the basics of harmony, rather than the extended harmonies most often associated with jazz improvisation. The accomplished student will not learn new flashy licks, but will learn to always know where they are in a song, how every note available on the guitar neck relates to the harmony of the moment and to the tonality of the piece. They will learn why the flashy licks learned elsewhere flash and how to apply that flash to any harmonic situation. They will learn to support or blur chords at will, using melody or harmony, and to free themselves from the constraints of a pre-conceived arrangement. Ultimately, the student will learn to play the guitar more like a piano, rather than a drum or piccolo.

In this download:

Introduces the five basic major chord forms with chord tone memorization exercises, the four chord types, how the chord forms connect from end to end of the guitar neck and how to convert each major form to the other three types. Also presented are the 5 scale forms associated with each of the chord forms.