Soloing and Comping in a Pianistic Style

Canadian jazz master Lorne Lofsky teaches a pianistic approach to soloing and comping — the harmonically rich, two-things-at-once style that guitarists like Lenny Breau and John Stowell developed by drawing on pianists such as Bill Evans. Lorne builds the whole class from a few movable shapes, showing how to make the guitar imply a full rhythm section.

What's covered

• Quartal (fourth) voicings diatonic to the major scale: building them, moving them across string groups, and playing them on all the modes
• Adding melody notes on top of voicings — including two-note melodies for a Fender Rhodes-like spread
• Applying the voicings to ii–V–I progressions, with flat-9/flat-13 dominants, secondary dominants, and rootless shapes where the 3rd and 7th imply the bass
• Creating motion with side slipping, neighbor chords, and passing chords on static vamps
• Playing the concepts over a blues in G and Dorian/Mixolydian modal sounds (including the All Blues vamp)
• Open-string voicings, drone exercises, visualization, and other practice strategies that go beyond standard drop voicings
• A closing Autumn Leaves performance with the concepts explained

For advanced players who already know their drop-2 and drop-3 shapes and want a personal harmonic vocabulary beyond the textbook. Includes a 1-page PDF in standard notation. Full video is 1 hour and 34 mins.