JAZZSCHOOL SUMMER JAZZ GUITAR INTENSIVE
An all-day, week-long Intensive for aspiring
professionals directed by internationally acclaimed
jazz guitarist / educator Mimi Fox!
Monday through Friday, August 17 – 21.
Student performance on August 21, 8:00 pm at the Jazzschool!
Mimi Fox has been named a winner in 6 consecutive Downbeat magazine international critics polls. She has performed with Joey DeFrancesco, Branford Marsalis, and Diana Krall among countless others. www.mimifoxjazzguitar.com
The 2009 Intensive features Philadelphia-based jazz guitar virtuoso Jimmy Bruno! Jimmy has performed with Buddy Rich, Frank Sinatra, Lena Horne and countless others, and has recorded numerous critically acclaimed albums for Concord Records. www.jimmybruno.com
Additionally, master musician Marcos Silva directs a daily master class on Brazilian style and groove. Marcos has directed the Jazzschool’s Brazilian Studies Program since 1997 and has worked extensively with famed Brazilian musicians Dori Cayymi, Flora & Airto, and many others.
Top rhythm section players John Shifflett (bass) and Jason Lewis (drums)
are featured on this summer’s roster, and work extensively with all participants!
For complete information download pdf brochure here!
Beginning Guitar
An introductory course for students with little or no experience playing guitar. Students learn the basics including:
- tuning the guitar
- understanding the fretboard
- using proper hand positions
- fingerings for major scales
- learning basic chords, i.e., triads and seventh chords
- playing simple pieces
- reading music
This course is taught by world-class Jazzschool faculty with the objective of "getting it right" from the very beginning.
Required text: Modern Guitar Method Vol. One, Mel Bay (available in The Bassment)
Saturdays 10 – 11:30 am
DANNY CARON & ANTHONY PAULE
(6 weeks) $250
Blues and Swing Guitar
This class is designed for guitarists with basic technical facility and focuses on the blues form. Students learn chord voicings, fingerboard harmony and techniques of single string soloing from urban blues styles including BB King and Albert Collins to more complex, sophisticated swing styles including those of Charlie Christian and T-Bone Walker. Alternate chord cycles and rhythm playing are covered. Students also work with transcriptions to develop strong melodic solos
Prerequisite: Beginning Guitar Workshop or equivalent
Saturdays 11:45 am – 1:15 pm
DANNY CARON & ANTHONY PAULE
(6 weeks) $250
Jazz Guitar I (BEG/INT)
A hands-on class on the basics of jazz and blues guitar technique and style. Includes instruction in soloing and comping over standard jazz repertoire and the blues.
Prerequisites: two years playing experience, knowledge of major and pentatonic scales and basic seventh chords. Required text: Guitar Arpeggio Studies on Jazz Standards (Mel Bay Publications), and interactive CD-ROM, Graduated Solos.
Wednesdays 6 – 7 pm
MIMI FOX (6 weeks) $150
Jazz Guitar II (int/adv)
Required CD-ROM for Section II: Jazz Anatomy by Mimi Fox (available in The Bassment). Required text: Guitar Arpeggio Studies on Jazz Standards (Mel Bay Publications).
Prerequisites: Jazz Guitar I or equivalent; knowledge of scale and chord theory and some familiarity with jazz repertoire.
Wednesdays 7:15 – 8:15 pm
MIMI FOX (6 weeks) $150
Guitar Comping Techniques
This hands-on course is designed to provide the intermediate to advanced guitarist with tools, concepts and techniques essential to creative and effective contemporary comping. This course covers:
- comping over straight-ahead, bebop, modal, funk/fusion, ballads
contemporary jazz, Brazilian and Afro-Cuban styles of music
- creative chord voicings — looking at the fingerboard and voicing chords
in a more “pianistic” way; quartal harmony (clusters voiced in 4ths) in
modal comping; the possibilities of dissonant intervals such as the minor
2nd; slash chords; tritone substitution; and upper register chord voicings
- rhythmic anticipation & syncopation — the “right” places to put chords in
creating rhythmic “forward motion”; comping in 3/4, 6/8 and odd meters.
Prerequisites: knowledge of chord/scale theory; ability to play major, dominant and minor seventh chords and the ii-V-I progression in all keys.
Thursdays 6:30 – 8 pm
STEVE ERQUIAGA (6 weeks) $250
World Jazz Guitar Ensemble
An intermediate/advanced ensemble for 5
to 8 guitarists focusing on custom arrangements of jazz, Brazilian, Afro-Cuban, South
African and other styles of music. Students gain insight into various aspects of playing the guitar including comping, ethnic rhythm styles, improvising, reading and fingerboard technique, phrasing and tone, playing bass lines, and grooving in general.
Thursdays 8:15 – 9:45 pm
STEVE ERQUIAGA (6 weeks) $250
WORKSHOPS
Flamenco Workshop
A workshop on flamenco-style guitar covering:
• the cultural and historical foundations of the art
• the important rhythmic forms (palos)
• specific rhythmic, melodic and techical exercises
• strummed rhythm (compás) with hand-claps (palmas) and footwork (taconeo) accompaniment
• guitar accompaniment for flamenco song (cante) and dance (baile)
Guitarists, please bring an acoustic nylon-string guitar, a capo (cejilla), a recording
device and a nail-file.
Sunday July 19, 2 – 4 pm
DAVID GUTIERREZ
$30 Jazzschool Students/$45 Others
David Gutierrez is a long-time Berkeley-based flamenco guitarist. He is assisted by Sara Ayala, flamenco dancer and instructor.
Exploring Jazz Guitar
This workshop, taught by world-class guitarist John Stowell, focuses on chord
construction, chord melodies, scale substitution and building solo lines.
Sunday August 2, Noon – 3 pm
JOHN STOWELL
$45 Jazzschool Students/$60 Others
Electric Flamenco Guitar
A workshop exploring the application of the electric guitar in flamenco music. Topics covered include: flamenco rhythms, strumming patterns, harmonic progressions, and improvising with a flamenco-style vocalist.
Sunday August 9, Noon – 4 pm
JACO ABEL
$30 Jazzschool Students/$45 Others
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