Jimmy Wyble's Etude #1

Sid Jacobs teaches Jimmy Wyble's Etude #1, using it as a launchpad into two-part, contrapuntal guitar playing. Wyble's contrapuntal style has influenced greats like Howard Alden, Larry Koonse, Steve Lukather, John Stowell, Adam Levy, David Oakes — and Sid himself. Rather than just teaching you the piece, Sid shows how to mine every measure for material you can use in your own music.

What's covered

• The opening V-I resolution and how to practice each measure through multiple keys
• Specific left and right hand fingerings, including a P-M-I-A right-hand approach when the thumb can't cover every bass note
• The chromatic-to-the-fifth move and applying it from every scale degree
• Shell voicings, finger independence, and the tonic diminished passing chord
• Turning a phrase from the etude into a line over Stella By Starlight
• A Joe Diorio favorite from the etude built on the "Hendrix chord" (7#9)
• Why Wyble almost never used barre fingerings — and how that makes the moves easier

The class includes Sid's performance of the piece with Soundslice enhanced notation so you can loop, slow down and study each measure, plus 2 pages of PDF materials in standard notation. Full video is 17 minutes.