EDUCATION, CLINICS & WORKSHOPS
BertLIGON
is available for Clinics & Workshops. Invite him to work with your young improvisers and ensembles.
Ligon has experience teaching all levels of improvisation. He has taught at Suzuki Institutes including the International Conference, taught at Mark O’Connor Fiddle conferences, Christian Howes’ Creative Strings Workshops.
HERE ARE LINKS to some EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS from the past:
[these were formerly posted at the University of South Carolina Jazz website]
- Thoughts about Jazz Practice:
- Purposeful Accidentals: Music Spelling Matters:
- Spell Checking the Music: Music Spelling Matters, cont.:
- Linear Melodic Voicing exercises for Guitar: Never Play Chords
- More Linear Melodic Voicing exercises for Guitar, 2:
- Linear Melodic Voicing exercises for Guitar Applied to Standards:
- Against the Grain Guide Tone Lines: from a clinic given at a JEN conference.
- Links to dozens of Jazz Transcriptions:
- Is it a #5 or a b13? Does it matter? [More Music Spelling Matters]
- Handouts from clinics given at ASTA conferences:
“after 37 years of teaching improv and jazz theory, your books completely changed my approach.
You explained things with level of clarity and precision that I had never encountered, and
you caused me to re-think concepts that I thought I knew.
I am forever in your debt, as are countless [former] students.”
Some Outline Examples
from Roger Pemberton &
Red Garland
1st 1/2 of “improvised” solo in Theory class
2nd 1/2 of “improvised” solo in Theory class
Blues “Simplified”
[Not so simple discussion from Jazz Theory II]
CLINICS
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IMPROVISATION
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COMPOSING & ARRANGING
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WORKSHOPS
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“There is no abstract art. You must start with something.”
—Pablo Picasso
“Teachers open the door,, but you must enter by yourself”
—Chinese Proverb
“We start out playing by ear, learning everything we can, and finally end up playing by ear again.”
—Lee Konitz
“Jazz in not just, ‘well this is what I feel like playing.’ It’s a very structured thins that comes down from a tradition and requires a lot of thought and study.”
—Wynton Marsalis
