Guitar Campus / Roman Kuznetsov

Guiar improvisation lessons
Jazz / Blues / Rock

Module 1. The 8 types of chords (+ possible additional notes: 7, 9, 11, 13) in 5 playing neck's zones in 12 keys; the treatment of chords; approaches Drop-2 and Drop-4, etc.
Module 2. Harmonization of scales and modes (the 5,6,7 notes) in 5 playing neck's zones
Module 3. Harmonic improvisation (the playing of chords on the chord progression) and using fragmentation chords, as well as "complex interval structures"
Module 4. Modern chord technique (elements of acoustic finger style)
Module 5. Play on no less than 15 ways for each type of chord in 5 playing zones:
-Arpegio-type structures and their combination at different combnation
-Polychordic melodic lines
-Fifths design and a wide interval of the design
-Pentatonic (+model of the pentatonic scale); altamiranda; halftone
passing tones (chromatic motive 24)
-Out-side playing: side-stepping, chromatic approach, playing by an imaginary harmony, the deflection function and etc.
-Systematic approach in the work on the steps / intervals
-Blues scales: minor, major, "hybrid" scales
-Artificial (hybrid) modes
-Diatonic scales and a modern approach to their application
-The polymodality
-Melodic minor and its derivatives scales
-Harmonic minor and its derivatives scales
-Symmetrical scales
and many other methods and approaches
Module 6. The construction of melodic lines and "intellegence-phrasing": add/subtract; sum; binding; grinding; striping; question-answer
Module 7. Working with standard progressions (2-5-1, 1- 5, 1-4-5, etc.)
Module 8. Working with jazz standards
-constructing own lines according to specified rules
-improvisation without accompaniment (keeping the progression in my head)
Module 9. The elements of modern guitar technic: chikin pikin, hybrid picking and etc.