Happy Holidays from Vision Music! As always, we have plenty of updates and exciting news to share with you. For starters... We're in the midst of celebrating our first year membership anniversary, and there's never been a better time to join our vision or renew/extend your existing subscription than right now. For a limited time only, become a Gold Member at our best rate ($36 per year, a dime a day), and we'll give you our stellar "Holiday Classics" chord-melody collection! For bonus details, click here.
Happy Holidays from Vision Music! As always, we have plenty of updates and exciting news to share with you. For starters...
We're in the midst of celebrating our first year membership anniversary, and there's never been a better time to join our vision or renew/extend your existing subscription than right now. For a limited time only, become a Gold Member at our best rate ($36 per year, a dime a day), and we'll give you our stellar "Holiday Classics" chord-melody collection! For bonus details, click here.
Hot Site Additions The "Classical Gas" page has a new feature. "Spanish Romance" is one of the most endearing, soulful compositions of all time. This fingerstyle lesson features multiple study and playback options, just like all of the other editions there. Don't miss it. You'll find yet another new mp3 conversion at our "Audio Lessons" page. "More Latin Vamps" is the sequel to last month's "Latin Guitar Vamps" release, this time focusing on three great vamp progressions in the key of E minor. Have fun! We have a brand new, exciting addition to our "Bottomline Bass" page. Now bassists and guitarists can practice the actual bass lines to selections from the popular Jam Central Station page, with the interactive "JCS Bass Line" series. You'll find two lesson editions in this maiden voyage release, "Black Magic Woman" (Carlos Santana) and "Moondance" (Van Morrison). Learn the parts in standard notation and tab, using multiple study and playback options, then get on stage and jam. Cool, eh? The "Coach's Corner" page has just been updated with two more additions. The original 24 articles are still available for all site fans. Members have access to twice the number of articles, plus all of the upcoming editions. Ready to site-read? Click here!
The "Classical Gas" page has a new feature. "Spanish Romance" is one of the most endearing, soulful compositions of all time. This fingerstyle lesson features multiple study and playback options, just like all of the other editions there. Don't miss it.
You'll find yet another new mp3 conversion at our "Audio Lessons" page. "More Latin Vamps" is the sequel to last month's "Latin Guitar Vamps" release, this time focusing on three great vamp progressions in the key of E minor. Have fun!
We have a brand new, exciting addition to our "Bottomline Bass" page. Now bassists and guitarists can practice the actual bass lines to selections from the popular Jam Central Station page, with the interactive "JCS Bass Line" series. You'll find two lesson editions in this maiden voyage release, "Black Magic Woman" (Carlos Santana) and "Moondance" (Van Morrison).
Learn the parts in standard notation and tab, using multiple study and playback options, then get on stage and jam. Cool, eh?
The "Coach's Corner" page has just been updated with two more additions. The original 24 articles are still available for all site fans. Members have access to twice the number of articles, plus all of the upcoming editions. Ready to site-read? Click here!
More Jam Tracks We are continually updating the popular Jam Central Station page, still the #1 jam session on the web, featuring high-quality rhythm charts. This is part of our plan to double the existing selections and broaden the spectrum of tunes to include classic ballads, latin, and swing standards. You'll find four new selections just added, from blues to rock to jazz to latin. Enjoy!
We are continually updating the popular Jam Central Station page, still the #1 jam session on the web, featuring high-quality rhythm charts. This is part of our plan to double the existing selections and broaden the spectrum of tunes to include classic ballads, latin, and swing standards. You'll find four new selections just added, from blues to rock to jazz to latin. Enjoy!
Don't miss our new "JCS Preview" page, to see dozens of upcoming jam tracks scheduled for release. To access, click here. You can also learn about becoming a Vision Music website member, to gain access to all existing tracks and all the new additions.
"The band at Vision Music's Jam Central Station offers a superb resource to quickly sharpen your jazz improv skills, as you can play your lines with a great rhythm section any time of the day. I wish there was a resource available like this in the early 60's when I was learning how to play jazz!" - Robert Conti
"The band at Vision Music's Jam Central Station offers a superb resource to quickly sharpen your jazz improv skills, as you can play your lines with a great rhythm section any time of the day. I wish there was a resource available like this in the early 60's when I was learning how to play jazz!"
- Robert Conti
Join Our Mailing List Still more exciting news for our fans! Our email database and creation software has just received a major overhaul, which will make it much easier to stay in closer contact with students, website members, customers, and non-members on a regular basis.
Still more exciting news for our fans! Our email database and creation software has just received a major overhaul, which will make it much easier to stay in closer contact with students, website members, customers, and non-members on a regular basis.
One of the inherent problems in developing a site as large as Vision Music is effective communication via email, which allows us to highlight ongoing features that you've probably missed, as well as new additions and special offers. Sign up today!
New LBM Samples If you've ever wondered what it might be like to participate in Vision Music's "Lessons by Mail" correspondence program, we have some great news for you. Our FREE sample lesson pages have been totally renovated. You're going to love what you see and hear, because we've replaced the old, MIDI-based affair with an MP3 format that allows you to hear lessons plus voice.
If you've ever wondered what it might be like to participate in Vision Music's "Lessons by Mail" correspondence program, we have some great news for you. Our FREE sample lesson pages have been totally renovated. You're going to love what you see and hear, because we've replaced the old, MIDI-based affair with an MP3 format that allows you to hear lessons plus voice.
Just click on the titles or images above to learn more about these popular courses and to access the new samples. By the way, we've kept the MP3 audio clips a reasonable length, so 56k modem users can also enjoy the high-quality lesson demos.
Our New Partner Great news! Vision Music is now joining forces with TrueFire.com on a number of great educational projects. For those of you who aren't aware, this is the company primarily responsible for supplying all of the audio lessons for Guitar Player Magazine and other leading periodicals, dating back many, many years. The have hundreds of well-known artists in their stable.
Great news! Vision Music is now joining forces with TrueFire.com on a number of great educational projects. For those of you who aren't aware, this is the company primarily responsible for supplying all of the audio lessons for Guitar Player Magazine and other leading periodicals, dating back many, many years. The have hundreds of well-known artists in their stable.
Vision Music has already a established solid presence at TrueFire. To check out dozens of lessons, jam tracks, songs, and more by yours truly, click here or on the graphics above, and be sure to browse their website. There's much more coming, so stay tuned...
Faculty Feature This month we are featuring guitarist/composer Steve Laury at our guest faculty page. If you haven't discovered Mr. Laury, you're in for a real treat. You can take a FREE lesson from this master guitarist with his "Blues Octaves" contribution. In addition, you can learn Steve's "Shut Up & Listen" blues original at our song page.
This month we are featuring guitarist/composer Steve Laury at our guest faculty page. If you haven't discovered Mr. Laury, you're in for a real treat. You can take a FREE lesson from this master guitarist with his "Blues Octaves" contribution. In addition, you can learn Steve's "Shut Up & Listen" blues original at our song page.
You are also encouraged to visit Steve's website at www.stevelaury.com. There you'll find numerous FREE audio clips from his recordings, plus an exciting page loaded with some of his best solo highlights. Click here or on the images above to access.
Question Mark... How About Playing In All Keys? Much has been made of the necessity, especially in jazz music, to be able to play a song in as many keys as possible. I disagree with that philosophy. Theoretically it sounds impressive and like a good idea, but reality dictates otherwise. Simply put, the majority of the musicians you will meet in your lifetime play standards in the key associated with that composition. There are exceptions, especially when accompanying vocalists, but I'd much rather spend my time learning a dozen great tunes, as opposed to learning one song in a dozen keys. Unless you have no choice, work with the concert key.
Question Mark...
Much has been made of the necessity, especially in jazz music, to be able to play a song in as many keys as possible. I disagree with that philosophy. Theoretically it sounds impressive and like a good idea, but reality dictates otherwise. Simply put, the majority of the musicians you will meet in your lifetime play standards in the key associated with that composition. There are exceptions, especially when accompanying vocalists, but I'd much rather spend my time learning a dozen great tunes, as opposed to learning one song in a dozen keys. Unless you have no choice, work with the concert key.
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