Harmony Masterclass
Blues Basics - Developing a Linear Approach
“I love this class. Jack is a very musical guitarist-teacher and it's a delight to hear his ideas on this topic. I often return to this video to get more ideas and a better sense of…”
About this masterclass
Jack Pezanelli explores the twelve-bar blues the way jazz players approach it: as a progressive form, open to harmonic and melodic devices that wouldn't be considered stylistically "bona fide" in folk or electric blues.
What's covered
- Treating the 12-bar blues as a progressive jazz form
- Options and techniques for developing the harmony of the blues
- Building an expanded, horn-like linear approach to solo lines
In this lesson Jack discusses and demonstrates these components, along with ways to build an expanded, linear approach to your solo lines. Full class runs about 76 minutes.
Lessons in this masterclass
Lessons
- 1Blues Basics - Developing a Linear Approach1h 16m
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Az Samad
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1/14/2016
I love this class. Jack is a very musical guitarist-teacher and it's a delight to hear his ideas on this topic. I often return to this video to get more ideas and a better sense of his phrasing. Recommended!
Bruce Casazza
1/6/2015
OMG please don't sing or scat or whatever you call that horrible noise coming out of your mouth- damm
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Jack Pezanelli is a professor of guitar at the Berklee College of Music, in Boston, MA. Recordings as leader include "Pleasured Hands" with Michael Moore and "Songs and Dedications" solo guitar. Performances/tours with Wayne Cochran, Richie Cole, Larry Coryell, Sammy Davis, Jr., Maynard Ferguson, Shirley Horn, Cleo Laine/John Dankworth, Rebecca Parris, Jaco Pastorius, Herb Pomeroy, Lou Rawls and others. Jack is profiled in "The Jazz Guitar, It's Evolution and Players Since 1900, Fourth Edition" by Maurice J. Summerfield. "Straight ahead to be sure, Pezanelli's fluent, solid, clear toned guitar style bristles with undeniable verve." - Jim Ferguson, Jazz Times