Nick Granville
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Nick Granville is a professional musician/composer based in Wellington, New Zealand who possesses an impressive palette of diverse sounds across a wide range of styles. As a professional musician for many years, he has recorded and performed with a vast array of artists in many parts of the world. Nick prominently leads his own ensembles, and has released a number of critically acclaimed albums, such as Wishful Thinking, Round the Bend, Refractions and Home.
Nick has worked with artists as diverse as Chris de Burgh, Ronan Keating, Delta Goodrem, Steve Smith, Mike Stern, Joey Defrancesco, Eric Marienthal, Kurt Elling and with the band on New Zealand’s “Dancing with the Stars”. Nick leads his own groups which play regularly around Wellington, and around all of New Zealand at major jazz festivals. He is a founding member of the Wellington Jazz Orchestra. He has also released four CD’s as a band leader and has played on many recordings, film scores, television and radio programs. Nick has taught at the New Zealand School of Music, Goodtime Music Academy, Musicworks retail stores, Christchurch Jazz School (CPIT), Otago University, Auckland University and at jazz festivals all around NZ. He has performed around the world and recorded in the best studios (including Capitol Recording Studio A in Los Angeles).
Nick also has a masters degree with first class honours in jazz performance from the University of Auckland.
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In this lesson, I discuss playing a funk fusion 7/8 groove. I give examples showing the rhythm, how to feel the groove effectively, and how to solo over the meter. Also, there is a ba...
In this lesson I show how to play a 7/8 idea over 4/4. Don't forget to check out the backing track on the next page!
Here is the backing track that accompanies the lessons on 7/8 Funk Fusion. Enjoy!
In this lesson I show how to approach playing in 5/4. Odd meters are not as scary as most people think if you have some kind of concept. This idea of this lesson is to give you that concept....
In this lesson I show how to play my arrangement of Dindi in 5/4. The idea of this arrangement is to take a classic latin tune and make it into a 5/4 groove without using the Take 5 rhythm. ...
In this lesson I show a way to move through chord progessions (II, V, I, VI in this case) while keeping a descending chromatic line on the top. This is not easy and will encourage you to fin...
In this lesson I show a way to move through chord progessions (II, V, I, VI in this case) while keeping an ascending chromatic line on the top. This lesson builds on the previous one so if y...
In this video, I demonstrate how to play the jazz standard Blue Bossa. The lead sheet for this tune is readily available on the internet, and the voicings I am using are standard. If anyone ...
In this lesson, I teach you how to play a bossa nova comping style that was taught to me by a Brazilian musician named Weber Lopez. This style seems simple but it is much harder than it...
In this lesson, I explain the guitar style of Freddie Green, who was the guitar player in the Count Basie Big Band. For any aspiring jazz musician, this is a must style to know how to do. I ...
Hi everyone! In this lesson, I'm going to show you a basic way to slide 9th chords to create colour when playing the blues. I use this sound often as it is very colourful, yet also very simp...
Now I'll show you a simple way to play arpeggios for each chord change over a 12 bar blues. Using arpeggios when soloing over a blues is a great concept as it allows you to 'spell' the chord...
In this lesson, I cover a simple way to play the major scale across the whole guitar neck; using 5 main shapes as the basis. There are alternative shapes (which I will explain at a later dat...