Chord Voicings Masterclass
The Major Scale: Chord and Scale Fingering Systems
About this masterclass
David Cohen teaches the major scale across the entire guitar neck in this master class for beginning-to-intermediate jazz guitarists. You'll learn to visualize the scale and the chords, voicings, and extensions that come from it, with an exhaustive set of fingering systems — the emphasis is on getting the scale, chords, and licks into your fingers, with just enough theory to know what you're doing.
What's covered
- Mode zones — seven first-finger positions covering the neck, each with an "activation chord" to help you memorize the shape
- 3-notes-per-string fingerings and how they shift you between zones
- Sliding scales — patterns that repeat across 2-string groups
- Full-range fingerings that traverse the whole neck, plus 1-string, 2-string, and 3-string playing
- Finding chord shapes inside the scale and comping a 2-5-1 in every mode zone
- Triads from the scale, triad pairs, and "triad triples" for harmonizing on 3-string sets
- A practice lick in each mode zone, with notation and TAB, and ways to vary each lick into your own ideas
By the end you'll have a much better handle on the most important scale in music — and a foundation for learning every other scale the same way.
Lessons in this masterclass
Lessons
- 1The Major Scale: Chord and Scale Fingering Systems1h 20m
Reviews & Ratings
0.0
0 reviews
5
0
4
0
3
0
2
0
1
0
No reviews yet. Be the first to review this course!
Related Courses
About the instructor
David Cohen →
Baltimore-based Composer/Guitarist/Drummer/Educator David E. Cohen is featured in a number of groups including No Signal, a modern classical and jazz ensemble, the Banana Channel which performs his progressive rock, jazz-fusion, and classic rock pieces, the No Land Band in which he is the lead guitarist and a contributing songwriter. Mr. Cohen has composed a number of jazz and classical works, including pieces for big band, four-guitar ensemble, chorus with electric guitar, solo double bass, full orchestra, chamber orchestra and soprano, brass quintet, solo percussion, amongst many others. His musical influences are diverse, including John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Jean-Luc Ponty, Return to Forever, Billy Cobham, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Tony Williams, Charlie Christian, Pat Martino, Kenny Burrell, Joe Pass, George Benson, Jimmy Smith, The Brecker Brothers, Larry Coryell, Bartok, Stravinsky, Debussy, Messaien, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Steve Reich, The Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Yes, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Kansas, Rush, Soundgarden, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Mastodon, and others. As an educator, Dave offers a unique view in his teaching methods. Trained at the world-class Peabody Conservatory by Paul Bollenback, Tim Murphy, Chris Theofanidies, Kevin Puts, Nicholas Maw, Shafer Mahoney, Paul Mathews, and Libby Larsen, he has many timeless compositional and jazz ideas to share. His instruction style is a fully comprehendible, step-by-step approach which emphasizes the understanding of music theory through an incredibly thorough system of guitar fingerings and visualization methods. Dave has many years of teaching experience and shares them week after week with his 25-student studio. David will present basic classes for the entry-level jazz guitarist.