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Private Instruction Through Correspondence:


(individual lesson tailored to student)
cassettes and Manuscript, 
35 minutes $50.

1. Many uses of scales, arpeggios, approach techniques, target notes and guide tone lines.

2. Triadic Improvisation through standard chord progressions, then with less 
common progressions and finally adding approaches to the triads.

3. Rhythmic interpretations: Latin, Swing, Rock, Funk, Reggae etc, various feels. 
Dealing with the time and how to
practice grooves.

4. Modal harmony and ways to improvise in 
modal situations.
(same chord for extended period of time)

5. Various chord substitutions.

6. Transposition of tunes.

7. Expansions of melodic lines using a
Schilinger technique.

8. Ear Training exercises.

9. Uses of diminished scales and their relationship to dominant chords.

10. Intervalic approach to improv.

11. Pentatonics, tetratonics, hexatonics, harmonic and melodic minor modes.

.....and many more topics available.
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