Comping Concepts Part One: 4/4 swing
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Concepts include:
- Essential tone (shell voicings), guide tone lines, pedal points, muti-use voicings (including rootless voicings), common tone, chromatic and stepwise voice-leading, Freddie Greene style, walking bass/comp, "over the barline"
- comping thru use of hemiolas, rhythmic "snare drum" comping, leaving space for a soloist while giving the soloist a solid "cushion"and overall techniques to help make a rhythm section swing.
Formats that will be discussed include:
- Guitar/bass duo
- guitar/voice
- and even comping for yourself while you are soloing!
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1. Comping Concepts Part One: 4/4 swing
1h 30mReviews & Ratings
The best comping class ever! Throw out all your books! Steve is so clear and concise, and you'll have other guitarists asking you, "how did you do that?" Thanks Mr. Herberman!
You can't go wrong with any class offered by Steve Herberman. Like many others here I have purchased several of his lessons - they are all excellent. As usual the class is well thought out, organized, logical and packed full of immediately useful information. Steve is a rare great player, thinker and teacher. If you haven't tried one of his lessons you are really missing out.
The outstanding quality (and quantity!) of the materials and the clarity of presentation make this class incredibly valuable. The seven page handout contains a wide variety of examples of different comping styles, from Frddie Green style to Stride, to building unusual voicings 'on the fly' with the Lenny Breau approach (deveped further in another of Steve's classes). As always, great playing and tons of musical common sense from Steve make this (and the other classes in the Comping series) unmissable.