Mike's Master Classes

Connecting Your Ears, Mind and Fingers (Complete 3 Recorded Sessions)

Paul Bollenback·
5.0 (2 reviews)·INTERMEDIATE·Ear Training·18 lessons
$295.00
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2023 Course Now Enrolling Three Full Session of Paul's Ear Training course included Ever have a great idea you want to play, yet when you go to play it, it somehow doesn't come out right? Want to make a better connection between what your ear is hearing and what your hands are doing on the guitar? This course addresses putting the basic building blocks of music into your ears and under your fingers at the same time. Both Melodic and Harmonic hearing and playing will be covered. This system is based on the material taught by Dr. Asher Zlotnik to many great players around the world, and adapted specifically for jazz guitar by Paul Bollenback. Learn the sound, location, uses and construction of all the intervals, scale fragments, triad shape, chromatic approaches and outlines of harmony, ultimately applying the material to improvising on tunes. The classes will be recorded and a link sent after each class for download, so you will be able to review at your leisure, in perpetuity. Intermediate/Advanced players, some music theory knowledge required (intervals, scales, chord construction). 26 PDF files included totaling 55 pages.
  • Aebersold Inerval List
  • Autumn Leaves pivots
  • Pivots on blues
  • Pivot random chords
  • Days of Wine and Roses pivots
  • Ear Training Process
  • Graphic Intervals
  • Graphic singing shapes
  • Graphic Triads
  • Guitar Window Graphic Triads
  • Harmonic hearing basics
  • Harmonic resistance technique
  • Melodic ear trainning locations on guitar intervals
  • Melodic ear training methodology
  • MET locations semitones
  • MET location tetrachords
  • MET location triads
  • Modes of major in tetrachords
  • Modes of melodics minor in tetrachords
  • Paul's associated repertoire
  • Random triads
  • Semitone fragments
  • Tetrachord construction and repertoire
  • Tetrachords
  • Triadic shapes

Course Content

Lessons

  • 1: 3-19-22 Live Instruction6232
  • 1: 3-7 Session4627
  • 1: 5-23 live session + PDFs101
  • 2: 3-14 live session4438
  • 2: 3-26-22 Session4966
  • 2: 5-30 live session99
  • 3: 3-21 live session4332
  • 3: 4-2-22 Live Session5728
  • 3: 6-6 live session107
  • 4: 3-28 live session4838
  • 4: 4-16-22 Live Session69
  • 4: 6-13 live session98
  • 5: 4-23-22 Live Session91
  • 5: 4-4 live session4667
  • 5: 6-27 live session96
  • 6: 4-11 live session5256
  • 6: 4-30-22 Live Session156
  • 6: 7-11 live session97

Reviews & Ratings

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Ray Bartlet
Verified Purchase
10/13/2022

"Comprehensive and effective "

Some months after finishing studying on this course and the benefits are really starting to emerge. Invest in this and you won’t regret it. Also the group is a fun hang.

Hans Hoexer
Verified Purchase
5/6/2022

"A must have"

Important topic, great instructor, a must have. Many thanks to Paul for providing this class!

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About the instructor

Paul Bollenback →
Paul Bollenback is not only a masterful performer, but a down-to-earth instructor. His approach to jazz is both inspiring yet attainable. Guitar master George Benson, a long-time supporter, has described Bollenback’s work as ". . .bona-fide playing, unambiguous, up-front and powerful," calling him “a versatile dynamo on guitar. His approach to jazz and blues has a uniqueness unto itself . . ..”. That comment has special resonance in that Bollenback counts Benson high among his wide range of influences; these also include Carlos Santana, Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, John McLaughlin, Johnny Winter, and Jimi Hendrix (among guitarists), as well as such giants of improvisation and composition as pianists Herbie Hancock and Bill Evans, and saxophonists Wayne Shorter and John Coltrane.