Jazz school training courses in Boston, MA (public, in-house or online)

The road to becoming a well-rounded and expressive guitarist begins with mastering the basics. This three-course guitar certificate program provides students with an excellent background in three keystone styles: Blues, Rock and Jazz.

You’ll start the program by learning the techniques and licks of classic blues stylists, such as T-Bone Walker, Lightning Hopkins, B.B. King, and Magic Sam in the Blues Guitar Workshop course. You’ll build a foundation in form, control, and harmony, and...

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Jazz Bass explores the key ingredients necessary to play great jazz bass lines, including the sound, feel, foundation, and power. Throughout the course, you will learn techniques for playing effective walking bass lines over jazz chord changes. The course begins by exploring "money notes"—the notes most valuable to a bass player to support and influence the band. You will play simple and functional walking bass lines over the blues and then progress to more sophisticated lines over jaz...

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While it’s important to have an understanding of the licks and runs that top jazz players use to define their own style, it’s essential for any guitarist who wants to succeed in the genre to know the chords, scales, and harmonic language that these great players are actually referencing. Jazz Guitar 101 provides the basics behind the jazz language: effective chord/scale usage, reharmonizaton, approach notes, arpeggio substitutions, melodic tension through the manipulation of harmony, r...

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Picking up where Jazz Guitar 101 left off, Jazz Guitar 201 explores the advanced techniques that great jazz guitarists use in order to successfully solo over chord changes found in both traditional and modern jazz compositions. Each lesson will provide you with a step-by-step approach to jazz improvisation, covering both rhythmic considerations as well as effective use of scales, arpeggios, and modes. Topics include altered pentatonic scales, across-the-bar-line phrasing, creating melodic tensio...

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Central to the mission of Music Works NW, Private Instruction serves beginners to advanced level musicians, from the very young through adulthood. All are invited to study with Music Works NW’s outstanding faculty. Private, semi-private, and group lessons are available.

Lessons are scheduled for the convenience of students and faculty; lessons may be started any time during the year and tuition will be prorated.

Choosing to take private lessons can lead to an enormous amount of mus...

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