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Paul’s Classes:
The Chromatic Line Game Class Content | Paul Bollenback
Join Paul for his first Mike’s Master Class where he will impart his concepts and experience using Chromatic leading tones in upper voices in chords as a means to generate motion in comping and soloing. The Chromatic Line Game makes use of a chromatically ascending or descending upper voice as a means for generating direction in comping, new chord voicings, or as a basis for constructing a single line solo. Examples start with simple ii-V-I-vi and progress to a practical application to familiar tunes.
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| The Chromatic Line Game | 01:36:00 | ||
Time, Tone and Technique Class Content | Paul Bollenback
Join Paul for his second Mike’s Master Class where he will impart his concepts and experiences in the meticulous way that he does! In this class Paul and you will explore ways to solidify and improve your time, feel, and groove, as well as see how tone and technique play into the expression of the groove. He’ll also demonstrate how to develop and use polyrhythms, and how to practice the material in a way that gets results!
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| Time, Tone and Technique | 01:31:00 | ||
Comping Class Content | Paul Bollenback
Join Paul where he will impart his concepts and experiences in Comping in a trio, with a piano player, with a horn player and with a singer. Vocalist Chris McNulty and guitarist Martin Carle will join Paul for demonstrations.
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| Comping | 01:33:00 | ||
Guitar and Vocals Class Content | Paul Bollenback
Guitarist Paul Bollenback and vocalist Chris McNulty will be broadcasting this class live from the IAJE Conference in NYC! More details to follow…
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| Guitar and Vocals | 01:13:00 | ||
Comping on Blues and Rhythm Changes Class Content | Paul Bollenback
Paul holds another class on comping, this time, specifically on Blues and Rhythm Changes.
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| Comping on Blues and Rhythm Changes | 01:33:00 | ||
Refreshing Your Chord Vocabulary on Simple ii-V-I’s Class Content | Paul Bollenback
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| Refreshing Your Chord Vocabulary on Simple ii-V-I’s | 01:26:00 | ||
The Art of Playing Jazz Blues Class Content | Paul Bollenback
Join Paul for another informative class where he discusses the Art of Playing Jazz Blues. He combines the roots of blues music along with the expanding harmonic possibilities and varying approaches developed since the 1950’s to the present day. Techniques include chords, comping, walking bass lines, soloing, Wes Montgomery chord substitions, modes, pentatonic scales, tritone substitutions and more.
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| The Art of Playing Jazz Blues | 01:33:00 | ||
Art of Solo Guitar – Part I Class Content | Paul Bollenback
Paul holds another information-packed, inspiring class. This, the first in a series by him on solo guitar playing. Paul has included 14 pages of study material with this class!
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| Art of Solo Guitar – Part I | 01:25:00 | ||
Art of Solo Guitar – Part II Class Content | Paul Bollenback
Paul continues his series on solo guitar with another information-packed, inspiring class. Walking bass lines and improvisation are covered in this class.
Note: There are no written materials for this class.
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| Art of Solo Guitar - Part II | |||
| Art of Solo Guitar – Part II | 01:32:00 | ||
Art of Solo Guitar – Part III Class Content | Paul Bollenback
Paul continues his series on solo guitar with another information-packed, inspiring class. All-important introductions and endings are covered in this class.
Note: There are no written materials for this class.
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| Art of Solo Guitar - Part III | |||
| Art of Solo Guitar – Part III | 01:30:00 | ||
Introductions and Endings Class Content | Paul Bollenback
Bollenback takes an in-depth look at intros and endings, how to set up the tone and tempo of a tune, how to use conventional and unconventional devices to frame the front and back of a composition. Techniques include the use of Vamps, Tags, Rubato, De-construction of tunes, as well as a look at the many standard intros and endings used in common performance practice. Also get a peek at some of the more adventuresome concepts that can help make your approach unique.
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| Introductions and Endings | 01:37:00 | ||
Useful Voicings Class Content | Paul Bollenback
Have you ever been working on developing your chord vocabulary and just gotten frustrated at the shear number of possibilities of note combinations?
Ever wonder how you can go from the world of exploring voicings, to actively using good sounding voicings that fit well on the guitar?
This course does an excellent job of shortening the learning curve for guitarists. Master jazz guitarist Paul Bollenback teaches the student by using Victor Young’s standard “Stella By Starlight”, the major Blues progression, stock 2-5-1 and 3-6-2-5-1 progressions as vehicles to demonstrate how to get the most mileage out of using just a few shapes (chord voicings) on the guitar.
The useful voicings course is a masterful study of the application of a concept and doing a lot with a small amount of information.
This Class Includes:
- Five pages of notes in a downloadable PDF file
- Boils down years of Paul’s in-depth explorations of harmony to shorten the learning curve and get great results right away
- Focusing mostly on 3 note voicing on strings 2,3, and 4
- Voicings for Tritone Substitutions
- Practicing in Cycle of Fourths/ Circle of Fifths
- String set conversions
- Shell Voicings
- Rootless Voicings
- Four Note Voicings primarily on the second set of four strings (B,G,D, and A strings)
- practice routine suggestions
- Tritone plus Perfect fourth interval voicing used as Dominant 13th, Minor 6/9, Dominant 7 #9, and min 11 flat 5 voicings all depending on the root note.
- Moving the Augmented 4th + Perfect Fourth voicing moving down chromatically on a 3-6-2-5-1 progression
- Applications of these voicing in common jazz settings such as major and minor 2-5-1 progressions, 3-6-2-5-1, and applying them in a blues context.
- Great for comping, chord melody, chord soloing and generally getting away from harmony based in voicings containing the root as the lowest note.
All this with a straightforward and no nonsense delivery of these very advanced concepts. All this and he ends with the greatest words of wisdom: Go Practice!
[Course Description by Andrew Boyce]
- Intermediate-Advanced level.
- 5 pages of written material in standard notation and TAB
- Running time: 90 minutes
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| Useful Voicings | 01:29:00 | ||
Soloing Using Chord Shapes – “Speak Low” Class Content | Paul Bollenback
For intermediate to advanced players. Learn to use a few simple chord shapes as a guide to soloing on Kurt Weill’s “Speak Low”.
We will examine how to “map” the tune using these chord shapes, and how scales, arpeggios and lines can be derived from these chord shapes and used to construct solos.
Step by step explanation and examples as we go along.
Included:
- Lead sheet for “Speak Low” (pdf)
- 85 min class video
| Soloing Using Chord Shapes with the Tune “Speak Low” | 01:25:00 |
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