The Inner Line

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Improvising in the chord melody style can be taken to new heights when inner lines are employed that are musical and played with finesse. This class deals specifically with inner lines, or lines that are played between a melody note and a bass note.

The melody and bass notes are important providing the necessary framework for solo chord melody playing. As an alternative to the common chord form approach to chord soloing this class examines how to make something unique and musical happening between the bass and melody.

The inner line concept can be a satisfying way of personalizing one’s chord soloing. Often the success of a good inner line depends upon choosing a good melodic line that resolves well and having a good flexible technique to make the line seamless, maintaining the independence of the two parts.

A flexible technique can be achieved by practicing the studies set forth in this class so that true improvisation in this style can happen naturally. Using principles that were inspired by the materials George Van Eps outlines in his harmonic mechanisms books, some of the lines will be given a bebop/hardbop update.  I’ll demonstrate the types of fingerings employed to make these lines happen between 2 outside sustained notes.

The class makes it possible for the guitar player to improvise more interesting arrangements in the chord melody style. Be prepared for a true left hand finger workout leading to much greater finger independence!

“Amazing masterclass! It’s full of usefull information. The arrangement on “Stella by Starlight“ is breathtakingly beautiful and also plays a lot of different ways to approach it. Also, there is a lot of written examples that you really can use and shows real situations to play them in a context!

Anyway you can’t miss him playing “Darn that Dream” in al lot of different ways!

I’ve learned a lot from this lesson and there is still a huge lot for me to learn from it. Really useful for the solo guitarist!! The arrangement of “Stella” is already on my repertoire with great success! Don’t miss it”