Vision Music's Online Newsletter for July 2009


Greetings once again from Vision Music! This month we have some VERY exciting series additions and a great new member bonus offer to share with you. Please read on...

Visual Guitar Trainer

VGT is here! After almost a year of hard work and development between Vision Music and S.F. Guitar School, we are thrilled to announce the release of a learning product that we believe is the greatest breakthrough in visual education to date for all guitarists. You have to see and hear it to truly appreciate all of the rave reviews.


The Visual Guitar Trainer is a lesson interface that merges standard notation, tab, and a unique animated fingerboard that makes learning to play any style of guitar a fun and rewarding experience. There are five disc releases to date, all featuring state-of-the-art material covering blues and jazz to fingerstyle solo guitar.

To learn more about this incredible learning product and to test drive VGT online with a great FREE lesson, click here or on any of the graphics above to take the tour!


New MGS Solos

We've just released even more new solos in our highly-acclaimed Monster Guitar Solo series, a solo transcription collection based on monster influences. The latest releases include a great mix of blues and grooves.

The monsters? B.B. King, Tom Scott, Kenny Burrell, Miles Davis, Grant Green, George Benson, Oscar Peterson, Pat Martino, John Coltrane, Jimi Hendrix, Robben Ford, Hank Garland, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Charlie Parker, Joe Pass, Wes Montgomery, and others. Each MGS edition comes in a high-quality eBook with matching MP3 track. Why waste time when you can learn from the best? Just click below to hear the latest group of MGS additions:

That's What...    |   Blues for Len    |   Nobody Knew   |   Sugar   |   Body Talk   |   Giant Steps   |   Four


Smokin' Offer

Not a Vision Music member yet? Have you seen our latest promotional offer? We're offering a hot edition from our popular Monster Guitar Solo series. Take a look...

Become a Gold Member or renew/extend your subscription at our best rate ($36 per year, a dime a day), and we'll give you this solo transcription (eBook w/mp3), a retail value of $30, absolutely FREE! To hear the solo and for a full book cover shot, click here.


New Lessons

As you may know, we've just released an entire collection of Special Edition lessons that can be ordered independently of our popular One On One: Lessons by Mail program. To check out the titles, lesson content, samples, and audio demonstrations complete with narrative and performances, click here.

 

Note: You don't have to be an active student member of the program to pick up these special lessons. However, if you're interested now or later in joining, you can now view and download a full, chapter-by-chapter overview of our two most popular LBM courses in PDF format:

Swing Blues: The Doorway to Jazz    |   The Rhythm & Blues Experience: A to Z

If you are truly serious about your playing and love the blue side of jazz and vice versa, stop throwing your money away and step up to the last lessons you will ever need!


Blues Talk

Not long ago we announced a brand new feature at Vision Music. Just Guitar Talk was the first of many planned MP3 "jukebox" pages, designed for both your listening and educational pleasure. The fan response was excellent, and that led to a sequel.

More Guitar Talk was the logical follow-up, another unique page sporting an mp3 audio player and several track selections, picked according to the theme for that page. Still Talkin' was next, then Fresh Talk, and our latest Blues Talk completes the current collection. To check it out, click here. Enjoy!


Forum News

The long-awaited Vision Music Community Forum is now open and available to students, site members, and all of our fans! Have you stopped on by to check it out?

Because Vision Music already has a wide array of resources, this is not like any typical newsgroup affair. Read and discuss a variety of topics pertinent to your musical growth and enjoyment. To take the tour, click here. You'll love it!


Hot Jazz Solos

Like jazz? Have we ever got something for you! Our Good Vibes Jazz Solo series is already being heralded by top pros, teachers, and students as a major breakthrough in jazz education, based on almost THIRTY years of research and successful coaching.

This amazing series represents an "oasis" for aspiring players who are sick and tired of mental headaches and spinning their wheels in frustration getting nowhere with inferior, abstract jazz methods. Are you serious? Ready for the ultimate solution?

Imagine playing solos in the spirit of great jazz legends like George Benson, Oscar Peterson, Charlie Parker, Wes Montgomery, John Coltrane, Joe Pass, Miles Davis, Hank Garland, and others, because that's exactly what this series is all about. Learn from the best and you'll play like the best! That's what they did, and now that's what you can do, too.

For FREE audio samples, licks, valuable tips, advice, and much more, click here to become a believer. You won't regret it!


Join Our Mailing List

For those who may not be aware of this, our email database and creation software recently received a major overhaul, which makes it much easier to stay in closer contact with students, site members, customers, and non-members on a regular basis.

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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!


Question Mark...

What About Jazz Turnarounds?

There are two common formulas when it comes to the turnarounds associated with jazz music and related standards. Most important is the turnaround that resolves to the I chord, typically a I-VI-II-V, like Cmaj7, A7, Dm7, G7, plus numerous substitutions, alterations, and extensions. The other formula is the one that resolves to the II chord, such as a I-II-III-VI, or Cmaj7, Dm7, Em7, A7. Both are excellent for applying core jazz language in improvised solos, as well as vehicles for chord-melody arranging projects that can be effectively used in solo guitar arrangements and for ensemble accompaniment.


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