Student Reviews: Getting Creative With Standard Tunes
by Jon Wheatley
An endless field of knowledge source. Every minute counts in this lesson. A brilliant pedagogical approach. A crucial bridge between intermediate and advanced Jazz players. Totally worth it! 2 thumbs up for an humble and great teacher! Thanks to Mike Gellar for making this available. Probably one of the most worthful Jazz lesson I've had. You will indisputably get a lot of milage of this one. Reverence to Mr Wheatley. <br /> <br /> Julien USA
Incredible lesson from a great player.Jon obviously learned by listening to great players.The informal presentation is great-lots of playing, not much talking.Any jazz guitarist could learn something from this.
What a wonderfull player and teacher !<br /> There's a lot to learn and even to transcribe here. <br /> Unlike most guitar players, Jon does not play scales but lyrical melodies influenced by greats such as Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis, Sonny Stitt or Hampton Hawes to name a few.<br /> More than a guitar lesson, his masterclass is a music lesson.<br /> <br /> Joel<br /> FRANCE
Jon uses 6 tunes in this 1-1/2 hour presentation to demonstrate the uses of chords, you probably already use, as substitutions (mostly tritone) to beef up your comping and chord melodies. I attended the class and came away with many new ideas that I am now inserting in tunes I play. Jon's approach is highly professional, entertaining, and the material he presents is immediately useable during the class. He first demonstrates his ideas in an easy to follow along manner, a couple times, then plays the tune, on 7 string, with a pre-recorded orchestration. I enjoyed it immensely and highly recommend this product.