Mindfulness Masterclass
Andy's Comprehensive Approach - Part 2
About this masterclass
Andy Fite continues his Comprehensive Approach series, moving from scales into harmony: playing the major scale in parallel intervals and then in three-voice triads, all over the fretboard. This is the heart of Andy's course of study for getting his hands on every possible chord — and, along the way, understanding chords as part of a linear, melodic conception of harmony.
What's covered
- Two-voice intervals in parallel — running the C major scale in seconds, thirds, fourths, fifths, sixths, sevenths, ninths, tenths, elevenths, twelfths, thirteenths, and on up to seventeenths, the whole neck each time
- Closed-position triads — root position, first inversion, and second inversion triads straight up the scale, with Andy's interval-stacking logic (a third on a third, a fourth on a third, and so on)
- Open-position triads — the wider 5-6, 6-5, and 6-6 voicings for all three inversions, plus a look at Andy's notebook plotting every interval combination across 36 scales
- Practice attitude throughout — slow down when you lose focus, breathe, make every voicing sing rather than playing mechanically
For guitarists who have the scale work from Part 1 under their fingers and want to build real chord mobility from it. Andy recommends running the material through at least four or five keys — ultimately all twelve.
- Running Time: 23 min
Lessons in this masterclass
Lessons
- 15. Scales in Parallel, part 27m 15s
- 26. Scales in Parallel 3 (closed triads)7m 51s
- 37. Scales in Parallel 4 (open triads)8m 12s
- 4Comprehensive Approach to Guitar II23m 24s
- 5Toward Mastery1m 3s
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Andy Fite is a jazz guitarist, singer, and songwriter currently living in Stockholm, Sweden, having lived and worked in New York City for many years. As a guitarist it's fair to say he sounds like no one else, joyous and spontaneous, with influences ranging from Charlie Parker and Lennie Tristano to Bach, Brahms and Chopin. (And the rhythm guitarists of the 1930s!) As a singer he's been compared to Frank Sinatra and Michael Bublé, with a warm sound and a natural phrasing coming from his strong focus on the words, and the thoughts and the feeling they communicate. He's written about 650 songs, extending the tradition of the "Great American Songbook" into the contemporary era, with what is often a comedic approach to the agonies of life and love, and performs across northern Europe under the title ”Jazz Comic Philosopher”. He has also recorded a lot. 44 albums are currently available for download or streaming at iTunes, Spotify, CD Baby, Amazon and other sites. These include pure jazz recordings in duo, trio and quartet, and solo; multi-tracked jazz transformations on Bach and other classic composers, compositions for solo guitar, many albums of original songs, and several albums in a new genre of his own which he calls the Talking Kaleidoscope. Andy has played with some of the all-time greats, including Red Mitchell, Kenny Clarke, Billy Eckstine, Kazzrie Jaxen (formerly Liz Gorrill) Connie Crothers, Bob Casanova, Sheila Jordan, Jan Allan, and many others. He is a teacher too. He works in his own private studio and at Sollentuna Jazz Workshop in Stockholm, and has guest-lectured at the Royal Academy of Music and several other schools in Sweden, and in Finland, Norway, Denmark and Germany, and also in New York City. He has also worked a bit on the comedy stages in Stockholm and elsewhere, and for a while there even had a spot on a Swedish children’s television show.