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New: Guitartraining - backing tracks #3
A collection of 32 backing tracks for scale and chord practice. Motivating tracks, each is about 3 mins long. Tracks can be looped, slowed down etc…
- backing tracks for the major scale through the cycle of 5ths
- backing tracks for the minor scale
- backing tracks for the dominant scales
- II - V - I in major tracks
- II - V - I in minor tracks
- modal tracks (only one chord…)
- backing tracks for the major scale - chromatic up and down
DEMO video here: click
You will get no pdf for this addon.
What you get is a code in order to subscribe to the online course with Soundslice.
Price is 9,95 €
Guitartraining Special Edition 1 (50 Standards) - Soundslice edition
A collection of voicings and comping arrangements for 50 jazz standards. Over 100 high quality videos with realtime fretboard view and more than 150 pages with notation and TABs in a single pdf-booklet as computer download version plus a code for "Soundslice" and tablet compatibility.
A child is born - A foggy day - A night in Tunisia - Afternoon in Paris - Airegin - Alice in Wonderland - All Blues - All of me - Alone together - Angel Eyes - Anthropology - April Joy - As time goes by - Au privave - Autumn Leaves - Beautiful love - Black Orpheus - Blue in Green - Blue Moon - Bluesette - Blues for Alice (Parker Blues) - Blue Trane (Minor blues) - Body and Soul - But not for me - Bye bye Blackbird - Cantaloupe Island - Caravan - Cherokee - Corcovado - Darn that dream - Days of Wine and Roses - Desafinado - Dolphin Dance - Donna Lee - Don´t get around much anymore - Doxy - Easy Living - Equinox - Estate - 500 miles high - Fly me to the moon - Footprints - Forest Flower - Four - Four on Six - Freddie Freeloader - Georgia on my mind - How insensitive - My funny Valentine - Peace - Round Midnight - You don ́t know what love is.
Interactive access to all video files. Fully interactive using the revolutionary platform "Soundslice".
You can view the chord progressions, voicings etc in realtime, you can change the tempo or set loops for practicing any amount of measures.
See, what Soundslice can do: You can click here to see my public page on the Soundslice platform: click
DEMO video of the pdf-file here: click
DEMO video of the Soundslice extension here: click
Price: 29,95 €
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Backing tracks for Special Edition 1 (50 Standards) - Soundslice edition
A collection of backing tracks for 50 jazz standards. The backing tracks are played with guitar/bass/drums and can be accelerated or slowed down. You can set loops for a certain amount of measures. The backing tracks come with online sheets with chord symbols that simultaneously move along with the music.
Tablet compatibility:
Open the browser on your tablet, go to "www.soundslice.com" and you are ready to play…All you need is to register for free with the interactive website: www.soundslice.com
You will get no pdf for this addon. The sheets can be found in the main book: "Special Edition 1" or in Realbook No.1.
What you get is a code in order to subscribe to the online course with Soundslice.
List of titles: see above
DEMO video here: click
Price is 9,95 €
How to use the Guitartraining material:
On a daily basis of 1 hour, you should practice scales and arpeggios and chromatic exercises as a warm-up.
Take a metronome, play along with the metronome. Increase speed every couple of days.
Then pick one standard, learn the chords etc, then try to improvise along with the backing track or practice the written solos.
The problem is that there is no "best way" of practicing. The Guitartraining material is not a step by step course, but offers different approaches to your instrument.
1. the technical aspect:
- you have to do daily exercises to improve your left and right hand technique (such as chromatic exercises, scales and arpeggios). This is the basis of all your improvisations. This can be fun when you notice that your technique and your knowledge about scales and arpeggios is getting better through the months. You have to stay concentrated while you´re practicing, set yourself a specific goal each time you practice, don´t let yourself get distracted, don´t just "noodle" along.
2. the harmonical aspect
- practice blues voicings - as given in the book - learn them by heart, use them as "patterns". You won´t forget them anymore, but you can always try to put in your own ideas later.
- deepen your knowledge about the underlying interval structure in each chord you are about to play (which fretted note is what interval in the chord). Therefore use the chord diagrams that I have provided in the book.
- omit root notes, play chords in a higher fretboard position (as shown in all of the chord exercises), practise the given voicing exercises for the tunes provided in the pdf file. Don´t think and analyze every note you are playing, use the voicings as "licks", learn them by heart. Everything will brighten up later.
- learn the progressions of the tunes by heart, so that you can memorize the chords
to be continued..............