Chord Melody Improvisation | Master Class with Arianna Powell
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- čas přidán 28. 09. 2020
- Each week we offer our students a Livestream Q&A where they get to deep dive into all things music with an expert in the craft.
This week we had one of our world-renowned mentors, Arianna Powell show us a fun exercise on how to approach chord melody improvisation on the guitar.
If you don't know Arianna, she's an LA based touring and session guitarist.
She currently plays guitar for Halsey and has also toured with Nick Jonas, Black Eyed Peas, JJ Lin, Drake Bell and more.
She’s played in the house band of American Idol, as a guest with David Foster and was featured in Guitar Player Magazine’s May 2017 cover story featuring their all time favorite female guitarists.
Arianna is an artist for Earthquaker Devices, Strymon Engineering, Kemper, Keeley Electronics, PRS, Suhr, Gibson, Moody Leather and more.
She holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Music Education with a concentration in jazz guitar from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Though a pop guitarist by trade, Arianna is passionate about exploring solo guitar playing through chord melody arrangements and is also amidst recording her first record.
This is just a small excerpt from the class but it's filled with tips that will really help you design an exercise to improve the technique and add some diversity to your practice.
If you enjoyed this, drop a comment below and let us know.
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Happy Practicing! - Hudba
What an incredible player she is
This is fantastic, so much great stuff to work on in such a short video. Thank you!
Excellent! I am a fan now! And that version of Shenandoah is F-ing great!!
Woah this kicks ass! You are an inspiration, Arianna!!
She's so inspiring.
I love your guitar!!
Excellent lesson!
Awesome lesson...
This video is so great😂 learning so much from the channel. Thank you guys for posting
Just an update, after learning from Powell and your channel I got a private instructor for 8 months and auditioned for FSU Classical guitar.
I’m attending music school in the fall! Thanks for all you guys do to share music with others. It really makes a difference.
Her tone is on another level. The slight fresh reverb and warm humbucker (maybe p90) is so easy to listen to. Compliments her playing so well.
She's playing on a 1963 SG custom replica. 3 potted humbuckers.
High praise from a dude who doesn't know the difference between humbuckers and P90s...
you should include a chord diagram of the inversions
interesting exercises. I like how these videos r especially hi quality, unlike other licks tutorials out there; really helps the intermediate players reconstruct the chords in different shapes up and down the fretboard.
especially liked the idea that the melody can be backed by inversions of the same chord, which isn't an idea normally propagated since it's just fundamental to play chord changes for all songs since the beginning of a guitarist's journey; I have learnt and used inversions 10 years ago and had formed shapes similar to what arianna did by fooling around, but i would've to experiment with this idea musically.
Also by playing only the C n D chords means B (ie 7th) is left out? it sounds missing too.
my experience is i've studied with a jazz guitar prof for a few months n religiously did these shape exercises but i'm now more into ear training and really aim to put myself out there to jam, learn songs efficiently/organic through my practicing and write music in the realm of punk/grunge/alt
Hi Tay, so happy to hear you are enjoying our videos! And yes, you are correct - starting at around minute 8:00 Arianna is focusing on triads. The B is missing from the C chord and she is using only the root, 3rd and 5th of the chord. Whereas for the exercise before she was including triads and 7th chords.
@@sonoraguitarintensive5747 thanks for getting back to me!
inversions r really beautiful to play around with but I guess i'm really trying to focus more on big picture ideas here: like applications of inversions n chord changes to compose different moods, similar to modes.
i was transcribing "i know it's over" by jeff buckley (acoustic ver.), and i didn't use the 7th chord although the barred F#m really rings the 7th note (i guess maybe not playing the 6th string aided in this impression). and there was a period in my transcribing that it's much clearer how the harmony is moving based on the movement of the top 3 strings triads on the guitar.
i could see many of jeff buckley's covers involved lots of triads/arpeggios n maybe extended notes like how Arianna emphasized!
first chord of “with arms wide open” by Creed @ 1:34?
I can play really well, why do I not know any of this...uh.
Honest I tried. But, I have hearing problems and after three runs thru I had to give up. So, why do I feel so guilty.
I have my volume turned up all the way and can still barely hear the talking
Tremendous ideas and tremendous skill - but I find this really difficult to follow as a lesson, she's all over the fretboard, she bounces and moves around a lot and the camera is non-ideal. She seems to expect that the students are intimately with every aspect of the fretboard and have total mastery of all triads essentially by ear.
its a master class bud, maybe you have so much trouble because you don’t actually read lol
At one point, she mentioned that there were classes before this that covered a lot of this material in a more beginner format. I’m guessing this is an excerpt from the intensive program that they offer.
@@FORTPOON I know someone that taught an advanced class at a camp and walked in and said OK since this is advanced play this by ear and ripped this insane run up the fretboard and everyone just sat there and stared at him so he said well why don’t we just go back to talking about what kind of strings and picks I use. 😂
Yes. Chord-melody is actually an advanced guitar concept. You must know how to form chord inversions before getting into this. But I actually found this video more concise compared to other videos about this topic.
@@dispersemedia Funny I got tagged back on this. I just rewatched it and I can follow along now, as my abilities have advanced that far since I wrote my first comment. Awesome to get dogged on as a beginner though, lol.
The best. She would fit right in with all of my dude musician friends and most likely “out-music” a few of them hahah.