Trefor Owen is available for concerts, workshops, group tuition and individual tuition.

Phone 07746 784949 or e-mail tojazzgtr@aol.com

Concerts by the Trefor Owen Jazz Guitar Duo with Andy Hulme, Trefor Owen Trio, Quartet, Quintet or Sextet can be arranged.

Trefor Owen pays homage to legendary jazz guitarists with his tribute band.  Phone or e-mail for details.

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HOT STUDIES!

The easy way to use the WHOLE-TONE scale as a tension device in improvisation.

I have pioneered a method of utilizing the PENTATONIC and BLUES SCALES to improvise over Jazz standards by identifying pivotal notes of the Major, minor and dominant seventh chords.

THE HENDRIX CHORD.

A method of left-hand fingering which introduces the "Hendrix Chord" as a basic form to facilitate all chords including the altered and extended chords and can be used as an introduction to the "Locked Knuckle Technique" which is based on forming Major, minor and dom7th triads, (root, third and seventh).

A BASE TO BUILD FROM.

A "Base to Build From", consists of four studies: The "Major Tonality" explains how to prepare, develop and condition the Maj7th arpeggio as an improvisational device, and the "Approach to Improvisation" study deals with the application of the "Major Tonality" through the recognition of the main character notes of the chords. (Simply by developing the "Major Tonality" it is possible to improvise over many jazz standards). In addition, to give more variation in your soloing, the "Jazz minor" and "Diminished" studies show how they can be prepared as improvisational devices, each one with its own "Base to Build From". The system is therefore based on learning and preparing three improvisational devices and how they should be applied to a harmonic sequence.