Artistworks Jazz Improv Guitar with Chuck Loeb

Learn the 6 positions
Lessons using music modes
Ear training exercises
What You'll Learn
What makes these jazz guitar lessons truly unique is that this is the only place online preserving the playing and teaching legacy of the late, great Chuck Loeb through the library of videos submitted by students using the ArtistWorks Video Exchange Learning® platform. Chuck reviewed each submission and recorded a video response, offering specific guidance to the student to take their guitar playing to the next level. All students can access the Video Exchange library and watch these interactions with Chuck. This library is comprehensive and may contain the key to unlock your playing.
About Chuck Loeb
Chuck Loeb was a versatile composer, arranger and producer with a passion for jazz guitar. He was exposed to jazz through fusion music of the early 70s and his influences included Wes Montgomery, George Benson, John McLaughlin and Pat Martino. He played with jazz luminaries like Chico Hamilton, Ray Barreto, Hubert Laws, and many others during his career and became the musical director and composer for the Stan Getz band in 1979. A renowned soloist, his 1996 solo release "The Music Inside" held the number one position on the contemporary jazz charts for six weeks. He was a member of the Bob James led group Fourplay from 2010 until he passed away from cancer in 2017.
Jazz Guitar Lessons:
Basic:
Introduction to the Jazz Guitar School
Jazz Guitar Curriculum Overview
Nuts & Bolts
Guitar Yoga
How to Practice
Know Your Neck
Basic Theory of Intervals & The Number System
The Basic Position Concept: The 6 Positions
Why the 6 Positions Are Important
The 6 Positions: Playthrough
Intro to Chords
Introduction to Improvisation
Improvising with Patterns
Using the Number System to Discover Arpeggios & Patterns
Applying Intervals to the Blues
Introduction to Ear Training
Interval Ear Training
Placement
Miscellaneous
Intermediate:
Introduction to Constructing Scales
Constructing Scales: Melodic Minor
Constructing Scales: Dorian
Constructing Scales: Natural Minor
Constructing Scales: Harmonic Minor
Constructing Scales: Pentatonic
Constructing Scales: Pentatonic add b5
Constructing Scales: Whole Tone, Diminished & Chromatic
Constructing Arpeggios: Major & Minor
Constructing Arpeggios: Augmented & Diminished
Constructing Arpeggios: Major 7th
Constructing Arpeggios: Dominant 7th
Constructing Arpeggios: Minor 7th
Constructing Arpeggios: Minor 7 b5
Improvising with 7th Chord Arpeggios
7th Chord Voicings
The Major Scale in Arpeggios
The Major Scale in Chord Voicings
Chuck's Warm-Up Routine
Bebop Licks
Linear Playing Through Jazz Progressions: Arpeggio Fragments & Appoggiatura
Introduction to Chord Analysis
Scale Recognition Ear Training
Ear Training – Exercise 1: Chord Recognition
Ear Training – Exercise 2: Interval Recognition
Ear Training – Exercise 3: Reverse Interval Recognition
Ear Training – Exercise 4: Scale Recognition
Ear Training – Exercise 5: Arpeggio Recognition
Ear Training – Exercise 6: Chord Progression Recognition
Ear Training – Exercise 7: Linear Line Recognition
Improv in Action
Melodic Fragments
If I Were A Bell
Introduction to Modes
Modes: Dorian
Modes: Phrygian
Modes: Lydian
Modes: Mixolydian
Modes: Aeolian
Modes: Locrian
Diminished Chords & the Dominant 7th
Less Simple Blues
Introduction to Chord Melody
Here's that Rainy Day
Advanced:
Mental Preparation for Improvising
Advanced Ear Training
Analyzing Jazz Chord Progressions
Jazz Chord Progressions: II-V-I Playthrough
Jazz Chord Progressions: I-VI-II-V-I Playthrough
Jazz Chord Progressions: III-VI-II-V-I Playthrough
Jazz Chord Progressions: I-V7/II-II-V-I Playthrough
Jazz Chord Progressions: III-V7/II-II-V-I Playthrough
V7/IV
V7/V
V7/VI
V7/III
II-V in Minor Keys
Tensions & Extensions
Approach Notes
All the Things You Are – Playthrough 1: Approach Notes
All the Things You Are – Playthrough 2: Chromatics
All the Things You Are – Playthrough 3: Modulations
All the Things You Are – Playthrough 4: Rhythms
Linear Playing Through Jazz Chord Progressions
Multi-String And Multi-Note Improvisation
Triple Stops
Smile
Stompin At The Savoy
Harmo-Melodic Improvisation
Recorda Me
Complex Linear Improvisation – Rhythm Changes
Donna Lee
Giant Steps
Modes Of The Melodic Minor Scale