Outside Concepts Masterclass Boxset

In this complete series, John F. Klaver will teach you exactly how to  'outside playing' in your own solos. By maximising your use of tension and release you can learn how to achieve those gritty dissonant vibes and generate your own encapsulating melodies.

This course covers a vast array of outside playing ideas, from outside intervals, scales like the octatonic scale, altered scale, whole-tone scale, superlocrian, diminished and other symmetrical scales, with implied arpeggios, chromatics, tritone substitutions, odd note rhythmic patterns, extended arpeggios, switching position and more. It's all covered using musical examples that you can add to your own playing.

Each volume is based around the main PDF documents, each one building on the ideas laid out in the previous volume. In these, John will take you step-by0step through the process of learning and implementing the outside concepts using plenty of highly musical examples!

To accompany these, you'll get a total of 30 exercises (with video/audio) designed to get you practising the concepts and learn exactly how they all work. Once you've mastered these it's onto the example phrases!

In the 30 example phrases (which also come with video/audio) you'll find 30 'real world' musical ideas that get you practising how to slip these interesting outside ideas into your everyday blues playing and give the material from the exercises some context.

Using everything you’ve learned in each volume, you’ll master a full solo (3 total solos) demonstrating John’s outside concepts in a real-world context and deepening your understanding of how to apply these new techniques to your own playing.

As ever, we have included everything you need to practise and perfect the material in this package. There are video and audio tracks for you to watch/listen and study, accurately transcribed TAB/notation for you to analyse and master, and backing tracks for everything!

So if you’ve often heard wondered how the greats achieve those outside phrases with ease, this is the masterclass you need to get started on the same journey!