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Tune Based Lessons

Tune Based Lessons

These lessons are centered on a specific tune. I guide you through the entire composition, providing insights into the harmony and various approaches to soloing and comping.

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Tune Based Lessons
  • This Masquerade Lesson (Benson) - Tune Based

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    An amazing lesson! I utilized a new camera which allows me to get close ups of my guitar neck, it looks great in HD! The PDF comes with over 15 pages of great lines. Blues, II-V's, dorian lines, lydian b7, this lesson is fantastic!

  • Girl From Ipanema - Tune Based

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    One of the most important Bossa Novas to have in your repertoire! I go through the tune in it's entirety and discuss some very nice reharmonizations, dominant approach, and the augmented scale. A large amount of transcribed chordal and linear material as well as full transcripti...

  • They Can't Take That Away From Me - Tuned Based

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    This has always been one of my favorite standard tunes to play. I cover some basic reharmonizations, the use of closed voice chords, the biii diminished chord and much more. an extensive PDF with some wonderful chordal examples is included in both notation and tab!

  • Beatrice - Tune Based

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    I love this tune! In this lesson I discuss several ways of dealing with Major 7th chords including triad pairs, pentatonics and the relative minor. Many examples have been transcribed including a 6 chorus solo.

  • Moanin - Tune Based

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    The Bobby Timmons classic hard bop tune. Tons of linear material on the pdf.

  • You Don't Know Lesson What Love Is - Tune Based

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    One of my favorite tunes to play. In this lesson, I take an in depth look at the tune from beginning to end discuss topics like the tritone substitution, the I diminished chord, chromaticism, chord scale relationships and much more. I also have notated many comping ideas in the ...

  • Sugar - Tune Based

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    In this lesson I show you how to utilize hip blues language over typical jazz chord changes. I also dig harmonically deeper and show you interesting ways of dealing with this soulful tune.