Larry Carlton’s 335 Improv Course Review
Improvisation is a bit of a paradox for musicians. The freedom a player enjoys when improvising might appear to be at odds with the rigid discipline of study and practice necessary to achieve that freedom.
However, with study and practice comes fluidity — and the ability to craft compelling improvisations. The more knowledgeable and practiced the player, the more creative and daring a musician can be without being preoccupied by technique and theory. But what should you study and practice? What theory needs to be mastered? How do you learn how to improvise?
Larry Carlton’s 335 IMPROV offers to guide your journey with an approach claimed to be highly enlightening and very accessible.
"I get asked all of the time about my improvisations," Larry tells us. "Am I thinking scales and arpeggios when I improvise? Do I have stock approaches to progressions? Do I use modes? I have certainly studied and am very much aware of these principles, but my personal approach is quite different when I’m improvising."
The 335 IMPROV course is organized into six sections. Each section covers a series of related topics and each uses a vamp or section from one of Carlton’s tunes as the practice track. The tracks were cherry-picked by Larry to provide a range of harmonic and rhythmic situations, in a variety of musical styles that will satisfy players of most every discipline.
Table of Contents for 335 Improv Course
| SECTION 1 1:1 Comping 2-Chord Pattern 1:2 Expanding Comp Choices 1:3 Approaches to Soloing 1:4 The Triad Approach 1:5 Breaking Down Triads 1:6 Chromatics 1:7 Concepts in Play SECTION 2 SECTION 3 SECTION 4 SECTION 5 SECTION 6 |
335 IMPROV is transcribed and annotated including tab, standard notation and Power Tab so that you can “see” and “hear” the notation played out at any tempo, without a change in pitch. You can also print out the notation for your reference. Larry provides annotations in all of the transcriptions to point out how he approached a particular section of the improvisation. All of the backing tracks that Larry works with throughout the course are also included as practice rhythm tracks.
Whatever your preferred style, Larry Carlton and 335 IMPROV will open your eyes and ears to the art of improvisation.
About Larry Carlton -- Eighteen-time GRAMMY nominee and three-time GRAMMY winner Larry Carlton is certainly one of the most versatile and accomplished guitarist walking the planet today. With over 3,000 sessions, 200 hit records and 100 gold albums to his credit, Carlton has improvised thousands of memorable guitar solos, comps and parts over the course of his career.
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