Norm Zocher Guitar Faculty Artist Clinic

Professor Norm Zocher will demonstrate a uniquely guitaristic approach to tonal, polytonal, and atonal improvising on the fretboard with specific printed examples available to participants including: how to use the “wrong the whole tone scale” over minor chords; using the 8 blues scales of diminished scale as a gateway to polytonal hearing and improvisation; integrating augmented, double augmented, and double pentatonic scales with double harmonic minor scale and its modes; and how to achieve the holy grail of full chromaticism using circle of 5ths/4ths, the mother chord, and chromatic triads and 4th structures, and the everything sheet.

Guitarist and composer Zocher is a long-time Berklee College of Music and New England Conservatory faculty member. He has performed and recorded with a broad range of artists including Esperanza Spalding '05, John Medeski, Maria Schneider, Steve Lacy, Bob Brookmeyer, Oliver Lake, Paul Bley, and more. The recordings of the Abby and Norm Group gained him international recognition as an instrumentalist and composer. Other critically acclaimed albums have featured Zocher with Jerry Bergonzi, George Garzone, John Patitucci, and Joey Calderazzo.