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BIRD CALLS Flight Patterns |
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Decode the architecture of a Charlie Parker phrase—and make it fly across the fretboard. In this new installment of the Bird Calls series, we take an original minor ii–V–i phrase played by Charlie Parker and use it as the blueprint for an expansive study in melodic development, rhythmic phrasing, harmonic targeting, and fretboard fluency. |
In this study | ◆ An original Charlie Parker minor ii–V–i phrase, decoded: its rhythmic figures, contour and chord-tone targets | | ◆ The phrase as a model — new “flight patterns” built on the same architecture in different registers of the mode | | ◆ The whole process expanded through four different areas of the fretboard | | ◆ Every resulting phrase re-applied to the relative major ii–V–I |
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One phrase. Multiple trajectories.
An entire fretboard of possibilities. |
PDF in TAB & standard notation · “HD” video masterclass · backing tracks $17 |
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On Tour · Taiwan Hristo Vitchev meets JP3 with pianist Jivko Petrov and his trio — October 9 & 10 |
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This October Hristo heads to Taiwan with pianist extraordinaire Jivko Petrov and his trio, JP3, for two nights of music. The tour opens on October 9 at the Taipei International Jazz Festival — the same day Hristo will also give a guitar masterclass in Taipei — and continues on October 10 at the Marsalis Jazz Club in Kaohsiung. If you are in Taiwan, come hear the band — and say hello. |
OCTOBER 9 Taipei Taipei International Jazz Festival + guitar masterclass | OCTOBER 10 Kaohsiung Marsalis Jazz Club |
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Dig Deeper The Art of the Enclosure If Flight Patterns has you hearing how Parker’s lines find their chord tones, the enclosure is the next device to study: a target note circled from above and below before the line lands on it. It is a signature of bebop phrasing, and Hristo has a whole shelf on it — the ENCLOSED series and the Pentatonic Target Tone Designs studies, which carry the idea into modern pentatonic playing. |
 ENCLOSEDMelodic Enclosure Ideas$20Where the series begins: a target note approached from above and below — diatonic, chromatic or both — plus Hristo’s “negative enclosures” for a modern outside sound. |  ENCLOSED Part IIPentatonic Fury$22The same devices inside the minor pentatonic scale — three enclosure types, worked across the entire fretboard. |  ENCLOSED10 ii–V7alt–I Phrases$10Part II put to work: ten ii–V7alt–I phrases in C major that turn the pentatonic enclosures into usable vocabulary. |  ENCLOSEDHarmonic Enclosures$10Enclosing harmony instead of single notes — chordal enclosure ideas over an Amin7 (Dorian) foundation, with a backing track. |  Pentatonic Target Tone DesignsMini-lesson seriesFreeA free way in: modern enclosures and chromatic target tones inside pentatonic shapes. |  Target Tone Designs Part 2Moving Targets$11Enclosures and target tones set in motion — small melodic cells displaced and sequenced across positions and keys, with a video masterclass. |
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 | CHORD SOLI Chordal soloing phrases over a I–VI7–ii–V7 progression Big-band reed and brass sections have a sound all their own: dense, colorful harmony moving as one voice. Chord Soli captures that “soli” texture on the guitar — five 8-measure chordal phrases in C major, each built on a different set of devices for coloration, chromatic harmonic motion and secondary cadences. PDF in TAB & notation · HD video at tempo and slowed down · two backing tracks |
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