Lesson

Some tips on melodic voicing.

Here's some minor idea adjustments for our TOTM, If I Were A Bell.

I made this for a student and thought I'd share it. We did it on the fly.

Practice page one in all the keys. Also page two.

Use the closed and open positions and then go through all the open and closed voicings. Remember the rules are the same as you move to the SAME notes to other voicings. If a note moved in one voicing it WILL move to the same place in all the other voicings.

Page three just analyze.

Remember: you don't need the roots. It's not Emin7 It's Cmaj. UNLESS you see an F# then it will sound more like Emin 9 than Cmaj7.

Hey guys,

I was working on something today, and decided to make it into a little video for VW... my first lesson here.
Hope u enjoy.

Steve

Here's Pt. 2 of articulation, ideas on adding accents inside lines.

Here's some ideas for practicing good articulation.

Here's a lesson on adding deadstrokes as another color.

And gives a good reason to do it! Then he gets into Oh Grande Amore.