JTC Ultimate Arpeggio Integration Masterclass Box Set
Latrisha Adan
With innovative advanced exercises covering further inversions, different voicings and extended arpeggios. Our groundbreaking advanced 'vocabulary builder' will have you learning 60 arpeggio-based licks covering 12 of the most common chord types.
We've even included 12 backing loops to help you practise each of the 12 chord types in isolation. This allows you to hone in your arpeggio skills without distraction to help you really master the concepts thoroughly!
Jake brings his influences to the front here with essences of Jeff Beck, Eric Johnson, Scott Henderson, Robben Ford and John Mayer cropping up throughout the 5 tracks. Learn then all with tab/notation and backings.
Become a master of melodic minor and diminished harmony with Jake Willson's expert guidance. Understand intervallic relationships and enhance your jazz skills to elevate your playing with sophisticated and modern sounds.
There are three parts: Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced. You can choose your level, but consider working through the whole masterclass. Even if you can play the licks or exercises from the Intermediate or Advanced parts, you could still learn something new from the easier parts.
This brand new JTC masterclass will take you through from the Blues basics to the soloing confidence of the stars! Crammed full of lessons, exercises, licks and solos, this full course has been designed step-by-step to take your Blues soloing to the next level!
We're tackling a BIG subject this time. Blues is like a coal seam running through the rock of so much music. Even if you don't play blues, you might play music that exists because of blues jazz, classic rock, soul, funk? So with that in mind, Blues is undeniably a cornerstone of modern music that will benefit your playing greatly if you develop it's skills and techniques! This series is a full course covering Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced levels so no matter what level you are currently at you can use this to push your Blues playing to new levels, fill in the gaps in your knowledge or if you're advanced enough even brush up on your old skills to dust off those Blues chops!
The Advanced volume is designed to take your blues playing further than before by dipping into a little bit of Jazz! Using Jazz concepts in Blues can provide a variety of complex and interesting sounds! In this volume we'll be covering the harmonic approaches of turning a standard blues into a jazz blues with extended chords, chromatic chords, approach notes and enclosures on arpeggios, chromatic passing tones, targeting chord tones, double-stops, super-imposing arpeggios, mixolydian scales, blues scales, altered scales and more! The exercises here will give you a lot to work on, which will help to push your blues playing and the licks will both challenge and inspire you to use the concepts to create your own ideas. The full solo will piece everything together, covering all of the concepts, scale and ideas laid out in the licks in one difficult and highly tasteful solo!
Overall, throughout the full three part course we will be covering a lot of ground! If you can work your way though all three volumes, internalising and absorbing each concept as you learn it, you'll be well on your way to becoming a master of the Blues and soloing with the creative freedom you've always aspired for!
As ever, we have included everything you need to practise and perfect the material in this package, the core of which will be the main masterclass PDF document. There are also video and audio tracks for you to watch/listen and study, accurately transcribed TAB/notation for you to analyse and master, and backing tracks for everything!
Who was the "Taubman" of the "Taubman Approach" to piano playing? In this introduction to his 7-lesson course on the Taubman Approach, Robert Durso talks about the remarkable life of Dorothy Taubman, what inspired her to spend decades unlocking the secrets of piano technique, and how she helped legions of pianists realize their physical and expressive potential at the instrument.
A pianist's road to a virtuoso technique begins with a single note. Although one note might seem easy enough to play, this seemingly simple act already requires a series of coordinated motions. In this lesson, Taubman-expert Robert Durso breaks down the principle of alignment, showing how to turn the finger, hand, and arm into a single unit, and use it to generate a sound with ease.
Once a pianist has experienced the sensation of playing a single note with a unified mechanism, the next challenge is to move to other notes. In this lesson, Robert Durso clarifies Taubman's often-misunderstood principle of forearm rotation and shows how this movement is the most natural way for human hands to move with a minimum of strain and a maximum of balance and control from key to key at the piano.
Chords and octaves are ubiquitous in piano music. Across eras and styles, composers drew on these fundamental musical building blocks to create vast and diverse repertoire. In this lesson, Robert Durso shows how to approach chords and octaves by drawing on Taubman's core principles.
Every piano student has to face the challenge of building speed in their exercises and pieces. In this lesson, Robert Durso shows how fast playing is not something achieved by incrementaly increasing the beats of a metronome, but is in fact the norm achieved through the successful integration of the principled movements Taubman discovered.
Rotation is an important principle in many theories of piano technique, but it has become most closely associated with the Taubman Approach. Indeed, throughout Dorothy Taubman's seven decades of teaching and research, forearm rotation assumed a pivotal role in the understanding of how pianists develop healthy, agile techniques. Join one of the heirs to Taubman's pedagogical legacy, co-founder of the Golandsky Institute Robert Durso, as he helps tonebase Head of Piano Ben Laude practice rotation at the piano. Part interview, part master class, Durso clarifies misconceptions about rotation and elaborates on the great utility of this movement while reflecting on the continued relevance of Taubman's teaching.
While the opening of Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit may sound haunting to listeners, it terrifies pianists for a different reason. The repetitive accompanimental figure in the right hand is a veritable "tendonitis machine" when approached carelessly. In this master class, co-founder of the Golandsky Institute Robert Durso employs concepts derived from Dorothy Taubman's decades of research in piano technique to help Ben Laude achieve a more shimmering, luminous effect in his performance of the passage.
Pianists of all backgrounds and ability levels are drawn to the 'Moonlight Sonata,' but only a few venture past the slow first movement and brave the presto third movement. In this master class, co-founder of the Golandsky Institute Robert Durso works with Ben Laude on choreographing the turbulent right-hand figurations, showing how Dorothy Taubman's concepts of shaping, in-and-out motions, and the walking hand and arm can facilitate the awkward arpeggios and broken interval passages that define the piece's technical landscape.
It is often said that Glenn Gould's interpretations are meant to be admired, but not emulated. Much the same can be said of his technique. In this short master class, co-founder of the Golandsky Institute Robert Durso shows Ben Laude how his hero's low sitting position and active fingertips contribute to strain and injury, while concepts derived from Dorothy Taubman's analysis of octave playing reveal a healthier and more efficient approach at the keyboard.
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Kika has been Artistic Director of the Xiquitsi/Temporada de Msica Clssica de Maputo Project since its foundation in 2013. Xiquitsi is aimed at social integration and inclusion, as well as vocational training through group tuition in music, thus taking the first steps towards the formation of what will become the first Classical Youth Orchestra in Mozambique. I was so excited to finally get the opportunity to visit Maputo in April 2020 and work with the inspiring young musicians there as part of their Maputo International Music Festival.
Of course we all know what happened next: COVID 19 hit us and the music world has been constantly trying to reignite itself ever since.I thought that was it for me with Xiquitsi and Mozambique for 2020 until an out-of-the-blue email arrived in my inbox from Kika in early August asking me if I would like to take a week of Zoom masterclasses with some of their violin students.
Everybody was obsessed with the violin. With the wonderful help of Argentinian Doublebass teacher Lalo Alemn and Mozambican Clarinet teacher Altino Munguambe, based in Maputo with Xiquitsi, we were able to stream the masterclasses live on Facebook to broadcast on a large screen in another part of the theatre so that socially-distanced musicians could simultaneously observe whomever was playing to me elsewhere in the theatre.
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