Education

Josh Hindmarsh Improvising Method – The three C’s.

Improvised music occurs as a result of the interaction of three key ingredients: Content, , Connections, and Context.

1. Content

The elements of jazz including scales, arpeggios, rhythm, contours

2. Connections

Phrasing, Substitution, Sequencing of elements, Call and Response, Motivic Development.

3. Context

Musical Setting such as Repertoire, Form, Placement of phrases.

Jazz Lessons

Musical Elements

Arpeggios – Triads Chords
Arpeggios – Seventh Chords
Scales – Bebop
Scales – Melodic Minor
Scales – Diminished
Scales – Major
Scales – Pentatonic
Tetrachords

Connection Principles

Forward Motion
Substitutions- Pentatonic and more
Melodic Minor Substitutions
ii V Is
Rhythmic Diversions

Musical Setting

Autumn Leaves (Repertoire)
Bags Groove – Bb Blues (Repertoire)
Blue Bossa (Repertoire)
Blue Monk (Repertoire)
Blues in B flat (Bags Groove/Tenor Madness)
Cantaloupe Island (Repertoire)
Four on Six (Repertoire)
Just Friends (Repertoire)
Now’s The Time – F Blues (Repertoire)
Satin Doll (Repertoire)
Softly As In A Morning Sunrise (Repertoire)
Summertime
Sunny
Take The “A” Train (Repertoire)

Additional guitar resources

Caged
Drop 2 and 3 Voicings
5 positions of scales
Right hand picking

Blues Lessons

“I think if it wasn’t for blues, there wouldn’t be no jazz”.
T-Bone Walker

For guitar in alphabetical order;