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Paul Pigat

Jazzin' Up Your Guitar

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"Paul Pigat is not only a great player but man, what a fantastic instructor!!!"

A student's praise for Paul's Rockabilly Guitar DVD

Jazzin' Up Your Guitar is a fun, accessible introduction to country swing and swing guitar for the intermediate/advanced guitarist. It's a great lesson for any player who wants to 'jazz up' their rockabilly, country or blues style guitar playing.

Paul Pigat is one of Canada's most recognizable guitarists. As a front man, he has graced many stages under his Rockabilly moniker ; Cousin Harley. Paul has played side guy to a who's who of the Roots music scene including Neko Case, Jim Byrnes, Mae Moore, Lee Aaron, The Sojourners and a host of others.

He has become a very popular teacher at music camps and through his previous Learnrootsmusic.com releases; Rockabilly Guitar and Travis Picking - Hillbilly Fingerstyle Guitar.

In Jazzin' Up Your Guitar, Paul focuses on elements of swing chord rhythm and arpeggio techniques that will soon have you adding lots of new melodies and licks to your guitar playing.

Topics covered in this (close to two hour) lesson include:

• various styles of swing rhythm guitar
• building solos based on the use of chords, arpeggios and scales.
• Arpeggios and practice techniques for chords (6ths, Dominant 7ths, 9ths, etc) that will add new colours to your playing.
• An exploration of the diminished chord and how to apply it to your solos
• The iim7 chord
• The major and minor pentatonic scales
• the blues, combined and chromatic scales
• the mixolydian scale
• unusual guitar chord shapes and substitutions
• the encircling riff
• double stops
• rhythm, chords and building solos in 12 and 8 bar swing chord progressions
• borrowing from other players and instruments to build a solo
• playing and soloing over the 'rhythm' changes
• And much more!