Chord Melody Guitar 2
Master the art of solo guitar improvisation. Learn how to control melody lines, chords and bass notes simultaneously in your music so that you can play totally unaccompanied solo guitar and create a complete musical experience for your listeners.
Take Your Solo Guitar Improvising to the Next Level
Building on the skills you learned in Chord Melody Guitar 1, this advanced course is a deep exploration of the 2-5-1 chord progression in both major and minor. This is the most important chord progression in all jazz music, and this course will give you the deepest possible understanding of the inner workings of this chord progression.
We will also explore advanced topics including the use of outside notes in your melodies, the use of suspended chords, and composing your own music.
In this second level of our course, we will also build our tonal map in a new location on the fretboard. This new scale configuration combines with your experience from Chord Melody Guitar 1 to unlock the entire fretboard. As a result, after completing Chord Melody Guitar 2 you will be able to improvise with complete freedom in chord melody style in any key, anywhere on the fretboard.
This course will teach you:
- How to weave chords and melodies together with the same freedom that piano players enjoy
- How to combine bass, chords and melody so you can play totally unaccompanied solo guitar
- How to improvise with complete freedom in chord melody style
- How to practice chord melody playing in a way that is free and creative right from the start
- How to create beautiful accompaniment patterns using your new chord melody skills
- How to use chord melody as a complete system for composing your own music
- How to keep growing even after this course, adding new chord progressions to your chord melody repertoire
Building on your skills from Chord Melody Guitar 1
To understand this course you will first need to take Chord Melody Guitar 1. That’s where you will learn the core technique of combining bass, chords and melody in a way that allows you to improvise easily and naturally. Once you have that engine built, in this second level we will take our chord melody ability in many new and exciting directions.
"This course was a "before and after" for me. I feel for the first time in my guitar practice that there is a systematic method to command the relationship between the music, the melody, the harmonic structures and the fretboard to improvise."
– review by José Martinez — Valladolid, Spain
18 video lessons - Work at your own pace
This course is divided into 18 video lessons in which we will explore new harmonic content, discover new melodic possibilities and practice many new creative techniques and strategies. All of these concepts will be integrated into a single cohesive method that allows you to develop yourself creatively while you are exploring each new chord that we build together.
By the end of the course you’ll be improvising in full chord melody style over all seven chords of the major scale, including the 3D (“three dominant”) chord that allows us to create the minor 2-5-1 chord progression. This gives you a very complete repertoire of chords to use in both your composing and your improvising, allowing you to play hundreds of songs in full chord melody style.
Learn from a professional musician and experienced teacher
Learn from a professional musician and experienced teacher
David Reed is the author of “Improvise for Real” and the creator of the IFR method. He is a professional guitarist based in New York City, and he has personally taught hundreds of IFR students in private lessons and workshops. He teaches a revolutionary approach to the fretboard that enables guitarists to more easily combine notes into melodies, scales and chord voicings, allowing them to develop a true mastery of harmony and express their own musical ideas anywhere on the fretboard.
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