Grab your instrument and practice improvising over this blues progression with me!
In this lesson I demonstrate what chord melody technique is and how it will enrich both your soloing and your accompanying. I also teach you the first step to building a complete chord melody technique on the guitar.
In this lesson you'll take your first step to incorporating your left hand as a rhythmic self-accompaniment on the piano. You'll start with a basic pulse in the left hand and learn to express right hand phrases and melodies relative to this pulse.
In this video I'll teach you a fantastic creative exercise for learning to see the chord notes in the music all around you. This is the ideal preparation for my chord melody video course.
For IFR students practicing Exercise 3: Pure Harmony, this is a demonstration of the exercise Seven Worlds Expanded on the alto saxophone. Ivan Edwards demonstrates the exercise exploring the 5 chord in the unlimited range.
In this lesson I'll help you get started using IFR Jam Tracks Level 1: Seven Worlds using what you've already learned on the piano.
In this free sample lesson from Chord Melody Guitar 1, we build the tonal map on the fretboard and we begin working with the chord notes of the 1 chord and the 4 chord separately, learning to make our own creative choices about when to use the bass note.
Grab your instrument and practice improvising over the 2-5-1 chord progression with me!
Today we begin a whole series of lessons that will teach you how to play chords effortlessly on the piano. The first step is our “tonal five finger drills”.
An IFR student asks how to incorporate classical right hand fingerstyle technique in the IFR creative exercises. In this video I demonstrate the two most useful right hand techniques to learn first.