The Jazz Lines

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Have you discovered it is essentially impossible to create pro-level lines out of modes and scales?  Wouldn’t you rather be playing at jam sessions instead of spending a fortune on instructors who insist on teaching you endless theory?  Robert teaches you the “under the hood” behind his mind boggling jazz lines in this 8 hour video course.

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Have you discovered it is essentially impossible to create pro-level lines out of modes and scales?  Wouldn’t you rather be playing at jam sessions instead of spending a fortune on instructors who insist on teaching you endless theory? If so, Robert Conti, has again redefined high impact instruction, as The Jazz Lines is his Twenty-Sixth Blockbuster DVD of immediately useful “take it to the gig tonight” lines and other ideas.

The early greats continuously evolved their improv skills by playing in bars, clubs, buses, and back room jam sessions from New Orleans to New York. Through ongoing hands-on exchanges of knowledge, they taught each other what they were playing on their instruments. In essence, the key ingredient to their continuous improvement was actually playing jazz, not talking about it. As evidenced by endless student testimonials, the cornerstone of the Conti approach is his ability and willingness to teach students to play jazz, by actually having the student play jazz from the start, not modes, scales and other nonsense. Indeed, nobody brings their “A-Game” knowledge to Jazz Guitar instruction like Robert Conti.

Robert stated in an interview: Theory vs Reality:

“Theory is often defined as a guess or conjecture. In relation to jazz improvisation, it is the branch of the art form that deals with its principles or methods, not its practice. Therefore, if improvising well is your goal, then why pursue theory first, as you’ll still need to learn to play – after spending several months trying to comprehend theory. Conversely, if you expend your energy learning to play well (like the early greats) you’ll quickly discover that the theory will become obvious as a by-product of playing lines that are tangible enough for clear analysis. From the student perspective, the best part of this pragmatic approach is that they have the great pleasure of playing jazz on their instrument, rather than trying to comprehend modes, theory, scales etc.”

From the intermediate to professional level, the concepts presented in The Jazz Lines will quickly breathe new life into your solos with a truckload of fresh, creative and exciting ideas.

The Jazz Lines Includes:

  • Full size 8.5″ x 11″ Booklet
  • Two DVD Set totaling 8 hours of instruction from Robert Conti
  • MIDI files of all musical data presented
  • Bonus Feature titled “After The Gig!” section

Customer Reviews

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Tony Silber - Seaford, Australia
A quantum leap after playing for more than 40 years

Hello Mr Conti, I just completed your course - The Jazz Lines and wow- not only did you enhance my musical learning experience, but I believe my playing and vocabulary have developed significantly. A quantum leap after playing for more than 40 years. Thank you so much Robert Conti. I love your playing, your guitar that I proudly own and your teaching and I can't wait to start my next Conti Course.

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Craig Harvey

Mr Conti has improved my playing in countless ways. His books are true teachings in the Jazz art, especially for guitarist who never will be able to get lessons or sit in with the guitar professonals. I’m very happy with my repurchase of these important books.

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Andrew Howlett - Warwick, RI
Excellent instruction

I am finally getting a chance to work with Mr Conti’s excellent instruction. It’s great stuff!

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Fernando bazan

Makes it easy

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Vivian Kenney - Melbourne, Australia
I have the whole neck singing

I live in Melbourne Australia and have played all my life (in the blues x Santana style mix). Now as a 69 year old guy i have finally made some progress into the elusive bebop/jazz sound that i have wished all my life to both understand and play. I received your 'Jazz Lines' DVD/Book last week and have only had 2 days to try it out. I was a bit daunted to see you adding a fair bit of maths (my old 'can't do well' problem area). So after a try at your 1a and 1b licks and explanations I took a sneak look at the 7a first 3 bars and the sky lit up for me. Just with those 3 smaller licks in heaps of positions I have the whole neck singing in 5-6 hours-can't believe it. 2 chord shapes (plus lots of inversions of the same) and I am so excited to finally see my all time favourite Major 7th sound becoming a tool I can go any where with -so long as i am faithfully maintaining or heading to the key centre. I am overjoyed to be always playing the right notes (at long last) and nailing chord tones constantly. My heartfelt thanks to you Robert for turning my hopes and wishes into an exciting new reality and I am aware that 2 days of your lessons doesn't sound like much but after adding only a little bit of your simplified yet powerful knowledge to my usual tool kit I am a duck that's finally found a pond to swim in. Your skills have given me wings -Thank you very much Robert, I am so incredibly happy to finally be playing the sounds I have always loved to listen to.

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Jason Wiltse
His Teaching is Confident

I am floored by Mr. Conti’s teaching, both content and style. He makes the seemingly complicated simple (the best quality in a teacher, IMO). I’m glad I know modes and scales, but I wasted a lot of time going nowhere down that path. If that resonates with you, this course will fix it. Regarding style, Mr. Conti is an invested father showing his kid how to take over the family business. He is confident, and though I’ve never met him, I believe he is confident in me.

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Jack Marchewka
Just getting started

Worked though the first two lessons of the Jazz Lines book (more to go), but it opened a door for me. I’ve come to understand there is a difference between theory and harmony. This is about learning harmony. If you want to play jazz learn harmony.

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Mike Sanders - Las Vegas, NV
Jazz Lines That Take Your Playing to the Next Level

A well-thought-out series of lessons to help the aspiring jazz soloist take their playing to the next level. An important hallmark of any jazzer is having a diverse vocabulary of melodic lines to draw from when improvising. This DVD not only provides some of the hippest, bebop lines that would make Charlie Parker proud, it also teaches you how to use these lines and apply them to completely different harmonic structures than were originally intended. This is all explained in great detail by Mr. Conti in his usual laid-back, friendly style. He has dedicated his life to the art of jazz and shares with the viewer every tip and trick with nothing held back. Definitely a great source for reference material and its advanced application.

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Vernon Fuller
Early days but the signs are very encouraging! Recommended!

It's early days as I have only recently started working my way through the Jazz Lines. But, even with only lesson one completed, I can see a connection between the chords, the notes and how moveable and applicable the lines are. I plan to be back and comment further and possibly even film me playing sometime.

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