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BIRD CALLS Flight Patterns · Volume 2 |
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Decode the architecture of a Parker phrase—and make it fly across the fretboard. Flight Patterns Vol. 2 continues our exploration of Charlie Parker’s melodic language with another original phrase extracted from one of Bird’s improvised solos—this time coming from a major II–V–I context. |
In this study | ◆ A close architectural relative of the Volume 1 line — but this time the resolution takes flight in the opposite direction, reaching upward into the next octave | | ◆ The same architecture redirected to four harmonic destinations on Gmaj7: Root, 3rd, 5th and Maj7 | | ◆ Three large vertical fretboard positions, each a two-octave view of the arpeggio, with several pathways to every target | | ◆ Every pattern carried into the relative minor II–V–I: F#min7(b5) – B7alt – Emin7 |
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One phrase. Four harmonic destinations.
Three fretboard territories. Major and relative minor.
Countless flight patterns. |
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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