Jody Fisher: News

"Working With Licks"

http://gettothemusic.lamusicacademy.edu/2012/02/02/guitar-lesson-working-with-licks/

Here's a lesson about "Intros and Endings"--enjoy!

http://gettothemusic.lamusicacademy.edu/2012/01/30/guitar-lesson-intros-and-endings/
Jody

A little early I know, but here are some dates and locations for the summer clinics I'll be doing:

July 15-20, 2012 - National Guitar Workshop-"The Complete Jazz Guitarist"-Concordia University--Austin, Texas.

July 22-27, 2012 -National Guitar Workshop- "Real Book - Know The Tunes"American Jewish University--Los Angeles, CA.

August 26-September 2, 2012-Crown of the Continent Guitar Foundation, Workshop and Festival--Bigfork, Montana.

Also--big news--watch for "Guitar Artistry" with Jody Fisher, An intimate learning experience in a secluded mountain setting…….a week long private guitar retreat, limited to just nine serious guitar students--held in Idyllwild, California this Summer, 2012......

More info to follow......

Jody
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Quartal Harmony--Chords built on 4ths, their inversions, and how to use them!

Enjoy!

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/jodyfisher2

Sometimes the best and most uniform sound is accomplished by playing your melodies up and down a single string...

Practice improvising ascending melodic lines over chord progressions that descend--and vice versa.....

Keep a "resource journal". Things to work on, songs to learn, rhythmic figures, new techniques, song ideas--all go here...

http://www.cocguitarfoundation.org/index.php

For a consistent sound when improvising solo guitar, keep the volume of your single note lines the same as your chord work.

Practice improvising AVOIDING the root of each passing chord--a great way to discover new "directions" for your melodies.

Artificial Harmonics...
http://youtu.be/eqFg8r7Ckgk

Write chord progressions consisting of completely random chords (E7#9-FMaj7-Db9-Eb11-Gadd9-F#7#5#9-C6, etc), then improvise!

Practice improvising by alternating ascending and descending lines. ex. Gm7(ascending), C7(descending), FMaj7(ascending) etc.

There is no such thing as "old jazz". How can improvised music, played in the current moment be "old"?

Play melodic lines, scales, licks, and arpeggios from ANY beat but "one". Displacing rhythms should reveal many new ideas.

Try starting melodic lines with a large intervalic leap followed by a scalar "return". Try ascending and descending leaps.

Repeating an idea in different octaves creates the illusion of one very long line. Easy and effective!

Try using different arps over various chords. For example, an E triad over G7=G13b9. FMaj7 over G7=G13sus, Bm7b5 over G7=G9.

Bebop scales! For major chords, add a #5 to a major scale (C-D-E-F-G-G#-A-D-C). For dominant add the b7 (C-D-E-F-G-A-Bb-B-C).

Work on your time feel. All the scales, licks, arpeggios, and chords don't mean a thing if you can't "groove".....