Connecting Your Ears, Mind and Fingers (Sundays - 6 Sessions) : May 23, 2021

Paul Bollenback's six-week live ear training course for jazz guitar (Sunday sessions: May 23, 30, June 6, 13, 27, July 11), recorded so you can review every class at your leisure. Bonus: your purchase also includes Paul's previous six-week session. The course puts the basic building blocks of music into your ears and under your fingers at the same time, using the system Paul learned over eight years of study with Dr. Asher Zlotnik, adapted specifically for jazz guitar.

What's covered

• Three connected skills: identifying what you hear, internalizing material by singing it, and finding it on the guitar
• Intervals — their sound, location, uses, and construction — plus semitone fragments and tetrachords
• Singing and hearing triad shapes (major, minor, augmented, diminished) from a fixed pivot note
• Harmonic hearing: identifying chord qualities and connecting melodic material to the harmony underneath it
• The five-pivot system and outlines of harmony, applied to improvising on tunes
• Practice tools and routines: flashcards, ear training apps, and how to work on the intervals that won't stick

Because these are live class recordings, you also get Paul answering student questions and sharing stories from his playing life. For intermediate to advanced players; some theory knowledge required (intervals, scales, chord construction). 26 PDF files included, totaling 55 pages, covering the methodology, graphics, pivots on standards, and repertoire lists.