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.
This course is great. I have been on a journey to find all the resources I can on chord melody and I was super excited to discover Chord Melody Assembly Line. Robert teaches it in a way that is thorough and easy to understand and I have been able to quickly institute the concept into my playing even after just studying the first chord group. I definitely recommend and it's must for those looking to dig deeper into chord melody.
These strings hold up well and last a long time. I’ve never broken one either. As for instruction, Robert takes a different approach than most other folks. He’s always very clear with material he presents, and shows many different techniques and ways of approaching concepts. He takes it a step further than others, and doesn’t simply feed you a few lines to practice. He shows how he creates them, and what he bases them on, which is very helpful. He shows how other concepts fit and work together, in a way no one else has explained them. All I can say is that with his instruction, I’m doing things I never thought I’d be able to do. He is an absolute blessing!!!
Just started it, but as with all of the Conti instructional materials, it is fantastic! I’m not even a bop player. I love Jazz, but I also Love Freddie King, and BB King. Conti is helping me bring the two together. Good stuff as always!
Robert’s teaching style is a different, fun approach. To The Brink is an amazing album, something that anyone into jazz should own. It’s always a pleasure listening to any of his albums, and his lesson material is fantastic. My playing has done nothing but get exponentially better since the very first lesson. I never thought I’d be playing the way I do right now, and see signs of improvement daily.
Robert is truly a blessing!!!
My best to Mr. C, it's refreshing to have a guitarist of his skills and stature take the time to advance the skills of other guitarists. The lessons are a bargain when compared to the thousands I spent on private instruction. Again, Thanks. And I will spread the word to my fellow guitarists here in the New Orleans area. I hope Mr. Conti makes an appearance here sometime in the not too distant future. I would love to hear him live and perhaps meet him personally. I am 58, been playing offand on for over forty years, currently retired and wanting to become the guitarist I always thought I could be. This looks to be a step inthe right direction.
I am finally getting a chance to work with Mr Conti’s excellent instruction. It’s great stuff!
I’m very impressed with the product I’m enjoying playing again after years of modes!
Dear Robert Conti Team.
Thanks for giving me the opportunity to provide feedback.
It‘s only a few weeks that I‘ve started with the course, but I like it very much. For the first time with jazz courses, I have the impression of making music, playing jazz - despite my small talent - and that‘s a lot of fun. It‘s like what Robert said: you start with little bits, measure by measure just like learning a language using more and more words. Eventually you start playing and experimenting with these bits and develop further - and grow.
Thanks for offering me this opportunity and great experience after having put aside my guitar for over 3 decades.
Vera
Great books!!! I purchased it again, because I thought I lost my Chord Melody Assembly Line book due to revamping our/my music man cave. Great book!!!. I have learned many things, and I go through it for a refresher course from time. to time.
This book addresses the weakest area of my playing, and I was determined to get my money's worth. Well, it really does and I really am. More than just intros/endings/turnarounds, it makes great chord study. I've found that the material gives me ideas for comping block-chord soloing and opens my ears up for single-note soloing as well! All I need to do is drop the root notes, or even the chords to get stuff I could play with a full band behind me. And everything in the book is inspiring me to be creative and improvise! Thank you for inspiring me to get out of a rut and making the guitar fun again. Your book on Intros is really a great Intro to Robert Conti! Right now, I'm looking at your other products for something else that looks fun and useful, and hope to catch you live next time I'm back home in the States.
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.
Mr. Conti teaches like you are in the green room of a jazz club in 1960. He cuts right to the chase. No bullshit. I now see brilliant II V I licks right under my fingers. Upper structure chords that give you that "playing outside" sound. Three lessons have completely redirected my playing to sound like a legit jazz cat. Mr. Conti is a living legend so why not learn from the best
Here's a nice little chord melody version of Fly me to the moon that I put together using ideas from your Formula book.
I would like to thank Mr. Conti for all of his products. I own four of his Source Code books, all of the ticket to improv, and two of the chord melody DVD's and I'll be purchasing more in the near future. My guitar has never sounded so good!
Thank you for the great products! I have learned more from your materials than any other source…or even all of the others combined. After listening to your DVDs I start speaking in an accent even!
I have bought many of Roberts. Dvds and without doubt he is the best instructor and as helped me to become solo guitarist playing wedding and various gigs john
Hi I found Robert Conti’s DVD/book ChordMelody Assembly Line is exactly what I wanted all along and just stumbled upon it. I could talk about it at length it is so perfect - plenty of work but the effort is well rewarded, and my playing and understanding has grown dramatically as a result of his book.
