JAZZ GUITAR BACHELOR
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- one-to-one jazz guitar classes
- 130 ensembles, 12 resident bands
- thematic workshops for jazz guitar players: Wes style guitar, Gipsy Jazz, Classic Guitar technique, Jazz Fusion Guitar, etc.
- total tuition hours: 950
- jazz composition and arrangement techniques
- sequencing and virtual instruments
- productions in recording studios
- live concerts in clubs, festivals and theaters
Strengths
Development and research of one’s own personal style in jazz, from the tradition to be-bop up to contemporary jazz, advanced playing techniques, creative use of altered scales, polyrhythm, chromatic melodic figures, bitonal over-imposition, “outside” development of a melodic cell, comping and improvisation in Jazz, Jazz-blues, Fusion and Latin Jazz style, transcriptions and performances taken from recordings of the main music styles of jazz.
Study and use of compositional and arrangement techniques for rhythm section and five wind instruments, aimed at recordings and live concert productions.
Development of professional skills on sequencers and virtual instruments.
By perfecting the modal and contemporary jazz harmony, the arrangement and composition techniques, each student will create original arrangements and produce his/her own artistic project in Saint Louis recording studios.
The best works are published by the Jazz Collection label and promoted in live concerts by Saint Louis Management.
The student will acquire full mastery in the professional use of state-of-the-art music production softwares in the recording industry.
Customization of the study plan, with workshops, ensembles, orchestras, a second complementary instrument and research activities that stimulate interplay, creativity and the construction of a personal musical style.
Master classes with international artists and live performances in clubs, festivals and theaters.
Perspectives and Professional Outlets
- artist and band leader of original projects
- instrumentalist for live performance and recording session
- arranger for small and medium-sized groups
- musical producer
- author of music for soundtracks and music applied to images
At the end of the 1st Cycle Academic Course (Bachelor level), the student can continue his/her specialization studies in the 2nd Cycle Academic Courses (Master level, EQF 7) in:
– Jazz Performance
– Jazz Composition and Arrangement
JAZZ GUITAR TEACHERS
GUITAR LABS
Each student will have the chance of personalizing his/her own study-plan attending workshops designed to face in-depth topics specifically targeted to guitar players
WES STYLE GUITAR
Tutor: Cristiano Mastroianni
Study of 4 voices arpeggios degli arpeggi di 4 voci sulla chitarra (fingering and harmonic connections). Use of chromatic approaches on the notes of the arpeggios. Target notes. Visualization of various harmonic-melodic patterns on the instrument and geometries rationalization. Linearization of chords and of changes through the use of one or more chromaticisms inside the scales (bebop scalea and derivations). Use of the tensions and visualization on the guitar (9th). Application of studies anticipating the blues and the major II-V-I. Study of short music phrases. The ear and the bebop tonal phrasing (the art of always landing on your feet).
GIPSY JAZZ - L'esprit manouche
Tutor: Gabriele Giovannini
Guitar in-depth study of Gipsy Jazz (namely Jazz Manouche) from Django Reinhardt to nowadays, targeted to all those guitar players who wish to widen their knowledge on the instrument. Jazz Manouche is a music style revolving around the guitar, based on a virtuoso and emotional phrasing, with a typical Gipsy flavor.
CLASSIC GUITAR TECHNIQUE
Tutor: Claudio Ricci
Body setting techniques, care of the setting of the hands, in reference to generic and natural posture principles, which follow the subjective “body-instrument” approach and details of the “classical technique”, sound care, touch, dynamics, expressions, sound and timbre effects.
Analysis of the scores, tonal and modal findings in reference to the various eras, from the ‘500 to the’ 900, conception of time and interpretation.
Approaches and comparisons to the finger-style of the Delta Blues and its stylistic-expressive evolutions, up to the contemporary finger-style.
Use of the classical technique in modern styles, adaptation of postures, the instrument and the sound.
Listenings of Classical and Contemporary music literature.
JAZZ FUSION GUITAR
Tutor: Nico Stufano
Study of the intervals (in position and along the guitar board).
Construction of the phrasing through the intervals present in the major and pentatonic scale. Movement of triads, arpeggios and pentatonic through intervals. Diatonic transposition of melodies derived from selected intervals.
Ascending and descending movements of variable intervals matched with steady note and diatonic harmonization of the resulting. Chromatic approach inside the major scale: to the single note, the triad, the arpeggios, the pentatonic, the complete scale. Construction of chords of two or more notes through the use of the pandiatonic scale.