Comping Volume I
Master jazz guitar comping with 10 courses from 6 legendary instructors. Learn swing, blues, ballads, voicings, and pianistic approaches.
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About This Bundle
Comping is the heartbeat of jazz guitar. While soloing gets the spotlight, it's your comping that defines your sound, supports the band, and separates working musicians from bedroom players. This comprehensive collection brings together 10 essential comping courses from 6 master instructors.
What You'll Master
Your Instructors
Learn from six acclaimed jazz guitarists, each bringing decades of performance and teaching experience:
- Jamie Taylor - Practical comping approaches and comprovisation techniques
- Steve Herberman - Comprehensive comping concepts across all styles
- Sid Jacobs - Guide tone mastery and voice leading
- Vic Juris - Expanding chord vocabulary and modern voicings
- Lorne Lofsky - Pianistic comping and solo guitar approaches
- Tom Lippincott - Blues comping rhythms and voicings
Bundle Includes
- 10 complete video courses on comping
- Downloadable PDF chord charts and voicing diagrams
- Backing tracks for practice
- Lifetime access to all materials
Courses Included (10)
Advanced Jazz Guitar Lesson: A Guide To Practical Comping – Part One: The art of jazz guitar accompaniment, and the study of chords in general, can be daunting topics, especially if you’re new to the ...
Beginner
In this class standards such as Stella By Starlight, In A Mellotone and Confirmation are used to demonstrate a variety of comping concepts applied to many different group formats a guitarist will find...
Beginner
In this second class on comping we’ll look at ballads and jazz waltzes and the types of comping that work well for each. Tunes will include My Romance, In A Sentimental Mood, Emily and West Coat Blues...
Advanced
Often guitarists will reach for chord ‘grips’ that have roots in the bass, sometimes out of habit. This can be effective when playing without a bass player, playing Freddie Green style rhythm guitar o...
Advanced
In this 2006 masterclass, watch Sid Jacobs demonstrate the real depth and importance of guide tones for building strong solo guitar arrangements, counterpoint, comping and improvising melodically stro...
Beginner
Expanding Your Chord Vocabulary
Discover revolutionary chord voicings and reharmonization techniques that transformed jazz guitar legend Vic Juris's approach to comping and solo performance. Drawing from his acclaimed book "Modern C...
Beginner
Do you enjoy the sound of jazz pianists like Bill Evans? Would you like to go beyond playing rhythm guitar or just playing single note solos? Want to combine melodic soloing and harmonically rich comp...
Advanced
Countless books and videos have been produced on chord voicings that are useful for comping, but the other half (and arguably the more important half) of the equation is rhythm. What rhythms does one ...
Intermediate
Picking up where part 1 left off, part 2 explores a logical and systematic way to create chord voicings on a jazz blues that are rich in color and textural variety. The rootless chords used as the bas...
Intermediate
Comprovisation - The Missing Link
Composition + Improvisation = ‘Comprovisation’! Over the years as a teacher, the question I’ve probably been asked more than any other is: “What can I do to get more vocabulary into my solos?”. Meanwh...
Intermediate