Seattle Jazz Guitar Society

31 May 2009, Sunday @ 1-3pm at the Mercer Island Community Center Tim Lerch on Strategies for Solo Guitar: Arrangement and Improvising Ideas. “We have a little orchestra sitting in our laps yet we are often limited by technique and imagination as to how to get the most out of it. Since we spend much [...]

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From Tim Lerch’s 2/17/2007 SJGS workshop. As guitarists, we are both single line and chordal players. We need to build a rich harmonic vocabulary. Tim Lerch discussed and demonstrated a list of 13 techniques to bring more color to playing chords. Here are just two: Color Extensions and Inversions. When presented with the following chords, [...]

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