DISC MusicGurus Play Authentic Jazz Guitar

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Sail the sea of Jazz

A highly technical and intricate genre, jazz guitar playing requires dexterity and skill to create authentic compositions and performances. In this MusicGurus course, Rob Luft takes you on a journey through time, analysing the skills, techniques and recordings of some of history's greatest jazz players. Guiding you through the complexities of Django Reinhardt's guitar playing, Rob will take you through an in-depth look at how to improvise like Django alongside the accompaniment of his brother, Joseph, to create authentic pieces of your own. Moving forward, Rob helps you to better understand the inner workings of Joe Pass and his unaccompanied soloing style before unlocking the secrets of jazz composition by studying one of his original pieces. Two jazz standards for acoustic and electric guitar will be expertly taught to prepare you for any band audition in the future.

This course will take you through the fundamentals to the advanced, ideal for anyone with a good fretboard knowledge looking to expand their voicing within the world of jazz guitar. Throughout the journey, Rob articulates and explains in great detail the techniques and secrets of jazz guitar playing to help focus your practice and exercise to improve your own ability.

Not only will you gain a greater understanding of techniques and the history of great guitar players, Rob guides you through essential theory knowledge to help you expand your guitar knowledge. You will learn authentic jazz voicings, essential scales and how to use them in arrangements and solos as well as how to improvise over any chords, arrangements and conceptual ideas on solo playing. Specially recorded backing tracks are included alongside a series of downloadable and interactive PDFs to help learn at your own pace. Advanced video views offer a look at both lead and accompaniment parts which can be slowed down, looped and sped up to learn as you see fit.

Meet your tutor

The world of jazz guitar playing is a difficult beast to traverse. This is why this course is being taught by none other than award-winning 24-year-old Rob Luft. Described as one of the UK's most prominent and talented contemporary Jazz guitarists, Rob holds ability far beyond his years. Recipient of the 2016 Kenny Wheeler Jazz Prize in association with Edition Records alongside further awards in the 2016 Montreux Jazz Guitar Competition. Releasing his debut album in 2017, 'Riser' was met with widespread critical acclaim from his peers with the Guardian citing Riser as "a very sophisticated debut, but given Luft's old-soul achievements since his early teens, we should have heard it coming".

Take the lessons at your own pace

There is nothing worse than the feeling of being rushed when trying to learn and understand something as deep and complex as music, after all, everyone takes on information at different rates and sometimes online learning platforms provide limited-time-only licenses and subscription services that pressure you into further purchases and more expensive subscription periods. Well, MusicGuru has changed that as with their courses not only do you get the wealth of knowledge from in-the-industry professionals, but you also get lifelong access to your course and all the downloads that come with it. This means you can take the course at your own pace. You'll be able to dip in and out when you please and if you ever feel you need a refresher you can come back to MusicGuru without the need for any further purchases.

MusicGuru can also boast difficulty ratings so you know what you're getting into and advanced video features for the lessons, so if you want to take it back and hear the excerpt again but at a bit of a slower speed, you can! Being compatible with phones, tablets and desktops, you'll be able to learn when you want, where you want, whether that be in front of your instrument at home or just to pass the time whilst commuting on the train, MusicGuru design the courses to work around you, whatever your lifestyle.

Features

• Presented by virtuoso guitarist Rob Luft
• Over two hours of video content divided into 28 exciting and informative lessons
• Gain a deep insight into the origins of jazz guitar, learning the sounds and styles that influenced the genre
• Develop your skillset and improve your practice routines, techniques and tricks
• Rob teaches you two jazz standards along with an original composition to get you ready for any band audition
• Build your skills as a composer, understanding key jazz scales such as Be-Bop and pentatonic along with how to create authentic chord voicings
• Take to the stage and be confident to solo over any backing with lessons on soloing over major and minor chords as well as learning how to create authentic arpeggios
• Bonus audio content with included backing tracks for your own listening
• Includes downloadable and interactive sheet music to learn in greater detail
• Learn at your own pace with advanced video features
• Mobile, tablet and desktop friendly to learn anywhere on the go
• Lifelong access to lessons via MusicGurus website

Specifications

• Format: Redemption voucher delivered via email
• Product code: 8457