Strechin' with Larry Coryell Playing Example 2
In this video, Larry shows the importance of playing with relaxed timing. Loosen up and release any tension from your playing. Notice how Larr...
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Quadruple Stops Improvisation 1
Quadruple Stops Big Band Style -In this video, Larry demonstrates how to incorporate quadruple stops in a big band style into your playing. Listen to how Lar...
Big Band Style Quadruple Stops - Notice how Larry incorporates big band-style 'shouts' into a blues here by using quadruple stops. Larry's using a mixture of the 'big band' quadruple stops, ...
Pentatonic Improvisation 4
Here is a final example of using the Pentatonic Scale to improvise over the first seven measures (bars) of the Blues. Larry really gives you some simple, soulful ...
Strechin' with Larry Coryell Playing Example 1
Watch and see how Larry weaves together chords and single lines in this blues chorus. He draws on pentatonic ideas, quadruple stops, diminishe...
Charlie Parker (Bird) Concept Improvisation Example 3
Here is another example of the Charlie Parker concept discussed and taught be Larry Coryell. He plays some really hip (cool) rhythms he...
Strechin' with Larry Coryell Playing Example 4
In this video watch and learn from jazz legend Larry Coryell, the "Godfather of Fusion," as he plays 3 choruses of an F blues where he demonst...
McCoy Tyner style chord voicings - Let's see how Larry uses chords voicings based on fourths, typical of the great jazz pianist McCoy Tyner. Larry also effectively uses bass note pedals to c...
C Whole Tone Scale
Larry will explain to you on how to spice up and alter an A minor chord a bit, by playing a C Whole Tone scale from the note C. All available notes are C, D, E, F#, G#, A...