Czapla Music Inc

A Comprehensive Music Curriculum

Author: Jeari Czapla
Format: Book
Instrumentation: Guitar

"Opus One is the jazz guitar book Lenny Breau never wrote, but inspired by and based on the guitar teachings of Lenny Breau who taught his son Chet Breau who taught me, and now I want to teach you." - Jeari Czapla

Jazz guitar curriculum course teachers book with weekly lesson plans that teach jazz chords, scales, theory, ear training, and performance. Best complete self study course to learn how music works, this teachers manual is based on the guitar teachings of Lenny Breau.

Opus One Contains:

• Ten Weekly Lesson Plans
  • aesthetically laid out, easy to read and comprehensive. This 11 week speed learning course will prepare you for a greater understanding of music.
• Three Written Exams
  • A theory work book involving penmanship and homework. The last exam is equivalent to the entry exam to any University or College music program.
• Five Essential Guitar Scale Patterns
  • As taught by Lenny Breau, Chet Breau and Jeari Czapla.
  • Five guitar scale patterns, arppegio's and chords, including standard musical notation, guitar tablature, and guitar fretboard examples.
• Four Essential Guitar Chord Charts
  • Guitar chord charts with five essential keys organized numerically to play any hit song progressing to jazz chords.
• Ear Training Exercises
  • Learning to hear standard chord progressions while practicing your pitch matching, performance and soloing, chord quality recognition, pitch retention, pitch matching and chord progressions.

Opus One for the Apprenticing Guitarist is an easy read. . . a guitar student's dream book and best friend providing a fast and easy way to obtain a higher level of musical knowledge. . . speeds up your learning curve fast. . .