Past Artists- Dan Balmer ( November, 2006)

What our members had to say !

"I thought Dan's clinic was one of the absolute best music training sessions I've ever been to.

The entire time he was explaining and demonstrating how Modes can be used against Blues changes, all I could think of was how much more sense my 2nd year of Music Theory would have made if I his "and here's why it's important" approach would have been used instead of the "just memorize it!" approach that I received."
 

"Dan is like a jazz guitar dynamo! It's so inspirational to experience his passion/joy/love for playing. He illustrates so well that discipline, practice and patience really pays off. What a great player and great guy."
 

Dan Balmer Clinic

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November 11, 2006

Clinic: “Playing Sophisticated Blues”
(see description below)

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Dan Balmer has been called Oregon’s premiere jazz guitarist. His recent induction into the Jazz Society of Oregon’s Hall of Fame, as it’s youngest member and only guitarists is only the latest recognition of his talent as a composer, performer and educator. Dan is a well known educator having lectured at USC, University of California Berkley, University of Oregon and internationally in Spain and Canada. He is a regular faculty member of Western Oregon University, Mel Brown Jazz Workshop, Centrum Jazz Workshop and has been the jazz band director for Lewis and Clark College for twenty years.

“Sophisticated Blues”

Demystifying the Jazz-Blues

Blues Changes and Forms

9th and minor 9th substitutions

Sophisticated blues chord substitutions

Jazzy lines to play over the blues

Bluesy lines to play in jazz