Joe Pass Crash Course

 Put Your Knowledge To Work (finally)

have you ever looked at a Joe Pass chord arrangement and thought, okay, this sounds amazing… but what on earth is he actually doing? 😅

that´s exactly what were going to figure out in my upcoming 3-part live Joe Pass Workshop!

we´ll work through pages 1–7 of Joe Pass Guitar Style, really dig into the music theory behind the chords, and — my favorite part — find lots of creative ways to make these ideas our own.

Because I dont want you to just memorize a bunch of chord shapes!

I want you to understand what you are playing and know how to get creative with it!

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and you know the biggest possible misconception, I think that many people have, is to play the chord melody arrangements exactly as written in the book and play each and every chord or line specificially like its printed. ( and then wait for the moment where they can apply the stuff, and trust me it doesn´t work like this).

also jazz ist not classical music. it´s not about playing each note to perfection.( the recordings are way more important..)

it´s really much more about digesting the language of jazz by devouring endless amounts of it…. and yes! it´s a very good technical exercise to play the stuff exactly as you find it in the book…

BUT: in the end you want to understand what´s it all about - and then do

YOUR OWN THING

with it. so in this sense I want to invite you to my wednesday evening sessions and let´s let the exploring begin ! 🙌

BECAUSE: Joe Pass is the inspiration. YOU are the destination.