It's
a whole new approach...
Hi.
I'm Chris Standring. I am a jazz recording artist, presently signed
to Instinct records with a couple of successful records on my hands,
and frankly looking forward to having many more. I set up this site
because in my reasonably long tenure as a jazz guitarist I see few books
that effectively communicate how to approach the concept of teaching
jazz guitar. I wanted to put together a course that was effective, understandable
and practical. That is not to say that jazz guitar is something that
can be taught and learned easily. Far from it. I wanted to put something
together that could be studied at home, along with the advantages of
new technology and a system that not only works effectively but appeals
to those that are looking to work hard and thoroughly.
I am talking about a new method entitled: "Play What You Hear-
a unique, complete home study course for the improvising jazz guitarist."
The idea is simple. Great musicians can pull a melody out of a hat and
run with it. They can very often hear a song and translate it to their
instrument immediately. They have no restrictions at all. Guitar players
on the other hand tend to play by shapes and patterns, thereby restricting
their aural facility and resigning their vocabulary to a small library
of rehearsed shapes, licks and patterns. Whilst this is all well and
good, wouldn't you like to break out of this cage and open yourself
up to a new level of musical freedom?
You don't have to un-learn. All the cool licks you have ever learned
up until now have a definite place in your musical vocabulary and should
not go ignored. I am talking about a new world of musical facility however.
The highest level. With this home study course you can, in your own
time, teach your fingers to obey what your ear tells you - all in a
relatively short space of time. Can you imagine how fulfilling this
would be?
You will learn how to play melodies, absolutely anywhere on the guitar
fretboard, without even having to look at the guitar neck! You will
learn to recognize sounds against simple and complex harmonies and learn
how to avoid wrong notes and stress strong sounds. You will learn fretboard
harmony so you can "see" things on the fretboard that you
have not seen before. You will learn melodic patterns relating to all
chords, in all positions and in all keys. You will learn to play the
most advanced jazz chords without having to learn 6 billion shapes.
You will learn a whole new vocabulary and have enough instruction to
last you the next 15 years, I guarantee!
Why do I know this to be true? because I have spent the last 20 years
in many many different musical situations, be it following a conductor
in a broadway style musical, to reading the heaviest chart on a hollywood
recording session, to performing in front of thousands of people with
my own contemporary jazz group. Every musical situation has always been
different and I always wished I could have somehow prepared for each
one just a little bit better. What I have put together is a course that
I wished I had studied all those years ago. It is essentially a book
of experience, an essential document for all guitarists wanting inside
secrets into the world of jazz guitar.
Imagine taking jazz guitar lessons with a private teacher every week
for 15 years . Let's say you spend fifty bucks for a private lesson.
Let's say you take 40 lessons a year, that's two grand a year spent
in tuition fees. Multiply that by 15 years and you have spent $30,000.
That's a great deal of money. That's also money well spent I happen
to think. But what if I told you I could give you 15 years worth of
instruction, at the highest level, for the price of just one of those
private lessons. Would that be worth it to you?
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