Solo Guitar Concepts

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In this jam-packed class on Solo Guitar Concepts, John will cover Chord Melody Components: How to Develop Unusual Chords (both wide and close intervals, open string voicings), Creating Cadences with Unusual Voicings, Internal Movement Inside a Chord, Pedal Points, Isolating Individual Notes in a Chord, and Employing Fragments of a Chord to Suggest the Harmony.  In addition, he will teach Right Hand Techniques: Demonstration of Pick/Finger Combinations to Isolate Individual Notes in a Chord and Play Double Stops or Triads on Non-Adjacent Strings.  Also, John will hold a Disucussion and Demonstration of Note Duration in an Arrangement (staccato vs. legato).  Other topics include:
Demonstration of Playing in Time, Rubato, Pulse with No Fixed Meter, Combinations of all Three Techniques.  Demonstrations of Walking Bass Lines in an Arrangement.  Dicussion/Dissection of a Chord Melody Arrangement.  Demonstration of Modulations inside and Arrangement.  Whew!

This class was streamed live from the Cadenza Academy in Portland, OR.