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Lessons / Genres / Jazz Fusion

Jazz Fusion

Where complexity meets groove

The Weckl, Vinnie, Steve Smith vocabulary. Borrows from jazz, funk, and rock and demands the technical precision of all three.

Level 1

5 lessons
  1. 01 Jazz Coordination Foundation 20–25 min
  2. 02 The Six-Stroke Roll 20–25 min
  3. 03 Half-Time Shuffle 25 min
  4. 04 Linear Playing — First Steps 25 min
  5. 05 Jazz-Rock Crossover 25 min

Level 2

5 lessons
  1. 01 Odd Meters: 5/4 and 7/8 25 min
  2. 02 Linear Vocabulary 30 min
  3. 03 Displaced Grooves 25 min
  4. 04 Sixteenth-Based Fusion 30 min
  5. 05 Broken-Time Fusion 30 min

Level 3

5 lessons
  1. 01 Polyrhythmic Grooves 25 min
  2. 02 Fusion Soloing Vocabulary 30 min
  3. 03 Metric Superimposition 30 min
  4. 04 Clave-Influenced Fusion 30 min
  5. 05 Tony Williams Lifetime Style 30 min

Level 4

5 lessons
  1. 01 Metric Modulation 30 min
  2. 02 Modern Fusion (Guiliana, Nilles) 30 min
  3. 03 Prog Fusion (Liquid Tension) 30 min
  4. 04 Electronic Fusion 25 min
  5. 05 Mahavishnu Orchestra Style 30 min

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