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Bebop Scale Bootcamp Workshops
Brian Hussey, Guitarist/Audio Engineer
Ed's Boot Camp for Bebop is a grand tour of melodic devices all utilizing the dominant Bebop scale. He's good at pointing out the motivation behind why this scale is useful. A ton of material here to start integrating into your playing and practicing!
Jeff Weisz, NYC Guitarist
Ed’s Bebop class is a textbook in jazz phraseology and idiom. If there is such a thing as a true ‘secret sauce’ for jazz, this is the closest thing to it I’ve seen.
With a methodical and well-organized approach that makes the material fun, accessible, and far less intimidating than it often seems, Ed’s Bootcamp workshops get you 99% of the way there to start truly sounding like a jazz player.
If you’ve been wondering why your lines don’t sound like your favorite players and trying to figure out what’s missing: This is it.
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Pat Metheny on Bebop
"And to me this is essential you know you have to have a strong sense of bebop language to play any kind of jazz and when I when I hear guys whether they’re free guys or fusion guys or new age guys or whatever they don’t have the bebop language down, I always get bored because to me that’s the foundation that everything else is built on and in this sense I’m very conservative. I don’t have too much tolerance for music that doesn’t have that language as a part of it so you know, I guess the answer to your question is simple which is yes I do think in terms of notes and chords and melodies, but it’s on a subconscious level."