Andy Wasserman has been assisting George Russell in giving seminars on the Lydian Chromatic Concept since 1981.He has also conducted his own seminars as one of only a handful of teachers certified by Mr. Russell to teach "The Concept" in it's entirety. The poster is from a seminar and concert given by Andy Wasserman at The Jazz School in Berkeley, California.
The following is a summary of the seminar content goals and represents the discussion, lecture and participation content. All seminars use George Russell's Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization, Volume One: The Art and Science of Tonal Gravity (2001) exclusively as its course text.
SEMINAR GOALS
- Background on George Russell and his life's work
- Gain a clear understanding of LCCOTO terminology
- Become very familiar with the LCC language so as to uncover meaning (language without meaning is empty)
- Orientation towards Tonal Gravity: hearing where the gravity is; feeling where the gravity is
- Tonal Gravity/Rhythmic Gravity/Personal Gravity
- Solid grasp of the 3 Levels of Tonal Gravity
- Clear visualization of the hierarchy and self-organization of close to distant relationships, i.e. Ingoing to Semi Ingoing - Semi-Ingoing to Semi-Outgoing - Semi-Outgoing to Outgoing : the grid of 144 intervals within the Lydian Chromatic Scale
- Comprehend the unity of scales and chords : CHORDMODES
- Clarify what MODES are in the context of the Lydian Chromatic Concept
- Open up doors to one's personal music: analysis, composition, improvisation
- Be able to work freely with CHART 'A'
- How to memorize the 11 Principal Scales: 7 Vertical and 4 Horizontal and the meaning of their relationship
- Achieve a solid understanding as to why this Concept's seminal scale is the Lydian Scale: the overtone series; what the music itself is telling us
- Flow to read, interpret and create one's own LCCOTO analysis: brackets, Parent Scale, Modal Tonic Degree
- Learning what the Concept is not
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