The art of comping for a vocalist requires a significantly different approach than comping with a soloist. Supporting a soloist requires more complex play and adapting to improvisations with varied chords and rhythms. Comping for a vocalist calls for a more elegant approach that underscores the melody without overshadowing the vocal performance.

Fingerstyle jazz legend Martin Taylor has collaborated with hundreds of world-class musicians in virtually every setting, from duos and trios to ensembles and big bands. Drawing on years of experience, Martin and special guest Alison Burns guide you through a highly enlightening, interactive masterclass, 10 Principles of Jazz Accompaniment.

” Joining me on this course is the highly acclaimed jazz vocalist Alison Burns. Together, we’ll share and demonstrate what we consider to be the ten most important considerations for guitarists when accompanying a singer.

We’ll cover approaches for determining the optimal key, mood, and tempo for a song. We’ll also demonstrate how guitarists can complement the performance with dynamics, space, and fills. You’ll also learn key considerations for integrating the voice and guitar into a seamless conversation.”

Martin and Alison use five songs, in various feels and tempos, as the framework for the masterclass. Each individual song features a series of lessons explaining and demonstrating the ‘principles’ that they will embrace when performing the song in a duo setting. After the performance, you’ll apply what learned in a musical context by practicing with a playalong track featuring just Alison’s vocal performance.

You’ll have TrueFire’s interactive learning tools to personalize your workspace and learn at your own pace.

The demonstrations and performances are tabbed, notated, and synced to videos with controls for looping, slow motion, fretboard animation, and many other tools designed to accelerate learning.

Grab your guitar, and let’s dig in with Martin Taylor and Alison Burns!

Start learning today: https://bit.ly/43aPECA
Learn more about the course: https://bit.ly/3v4G07V

Martin Taylor Virtual Concert Tour

The live music industry is changing at the speed of light. Live streaming of virtual and hybrid concerts are creating new disruptive business models for promoters, theatres and arts centres. And during this time of COVID that we are living through we need to think more creatively about how we serve our audiences and engage our communities in a safe way.

We are delighted to announce that Martin Taylor will be hitting the road again this year but this will a tour with a difference. This will be a Virtual Concert Tour where Martin can perform at your venue and then the performance is live streamed to your audience.

Here is how it works:

Martin will come to your venue and perform a livestream concert either to an empty auditorium or as a hybrid concert to both a socially distanced audience and viewers watching online.

We provide a professional director who will film the entire concert with multiple cameras and then a live mix of this will be streamed to ticket holders in a password protected Zoom room. We can even live stream some of the performance on your Facebook Page or YouTube channel to promote the innovative work you are doing. And best of all we take care of all the technology. That’s right for these virtual concerts you don’t even need to provide a sound engineer or stage lighting. We’ve got it covered.

And because it is a solo concert, there is no audience and both Martin and the video director travel separately to your venue, it ensures that both your team and your audience can stay safe. By booking Martin Taylor to perform at your venue as part of his Virtual Concert Tour you are able to generate much-needed virtual ticket revenues, engage with your local community, as well as enabling international and younger audiences to attend your venue virtually. It’s a win-win-win.

Plus if you want audience participation we can even turn do it as a ‘Virtual Audience with Martin Taylor’ where Martin plays, shares stories of his life as a touring musician working with Stephane Grappelli, Bill Wyman, and Jeff Beck, and answers questions from those watching at home.

Already venues like London’s Wigmore Hall, the National Theatre, New York’s Metropolitan Opera and Boston’s Tanglewood Music Festival are selling tickets for their own virtual concert series. Why not join them by programming a Virtual Concert in your venue or series. Just contact the agent that sent you this video to discuss availability and pricing.

To enquire about Martin Taylor performing a virtual concert at your venue, festival or series contact Martin Taylor’s UK agent Polly at Strada Music.

** If you are a fan of Martin and would like to see him perform a ‘virtual concert’ at your local venue then please forward this page to the artistic director, executive director or music programmer at the venue. Alternatively contact Martin’s team here to make suggestions of possible venues and festivals for us to contact directly.

It’s official. We just released my latest book, Walking Bass for Jazz Guitar.

This is a behind-the-scenes surprise video…

I was right in the middle of studio recording when the first copy of my book was delivered. It was the first time I saw it… and this is what happened:

Regards
Martin

So if you haven’t grabbed your copy of my “Walking Bass for Jazz Guitar” here is the link:

CLICK HERE FOR YOUR COPY

Remember when you order you’ll also receive these special bonuses:

Special bonus 1: Buy the book and download studio quality audio of EVERY example

Special bonus 2: You’ll also receive access to 2 specially created videos where I’ll demonstrate the techniques for you