
The Complete Jazz Guitar Method: Mastering Jazz Guitar, Improvisation
By Jody Fisher Guitar Standard Notation & TAB Book Item: 00-14117
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Expand the boundaries of your knowledge and improvisation skills with this exciting book, which picks up where the improv lessons in Intermediate Jazz Guitar leave off. Topics include improvising over altered dominant chords, the diminished scale, the whole-tone scale, targeting the altered chords, revamping licks, modes of the minor scales and more! Loaded with easy-to-read scale diagrams and example phrases, this book is packed with essential information for the improvising jazz guitarist. All music is shown in standard notation and TAB, and the CD demonstrates the examples in the book. 64 pages.
Contents
Title | |
ABOUT THE AUTHOR | |
INTRODUCTION | |
CHAPTER 1 -- RIGHT HAND OPTIONS | |
Pick Style | |
Fingerstyle Chords | |
Pick and Fingers Technique | |
CHAPTER 2 --COMBINING MELODY AND HARMONY | |
Lesson 1: Recognizing Chord Tones | |
Lesson 2: Guidelines for Arranging | |
Lesson 3: Chord Enhancement | |
Home on the Range | |
CHAPTER 3 -- TECHNIQUES FOR HARMONIZING NON-CHORD TONES | |
Lesson 1: Diads | |
Blue Bell of Scotland | |
Lesson 2: Adding the Non-Chord Tone | |
Beautiful Dreamer | |
Lesson 3: Voice Leading | |
Lesson 4: Passing Chords | |
Virginny | |
Blues in G | |
Diminished Chords | |
mi7 flat 5 (Half-Diminished) Chords | |
Blues in F | |
Lesson 5: Quartal Harmony | |
Single Notes | |
Octaves | |
CHAPTER 4 --ENHANCING CHORD PROGRESSIONS | |
Lesson 1: Passing-Chord Approaches | |
Lesson 2: The IV-I Approach | |
Lesson 3: The V7-I Approach | |
Lesson 4: The ii-V7-I Approach | |
Rum and Coke | |
Lesson 5: Backcycling Approaches | |
Lesson 6: Tritone Substitution Approach | |
Lesson 7: The Flat V7-I Approach | |
Lesson 8: The ii-V7-I and Alternate Cycles | |
Lesson 9: Surprise Chords | |
CHAPTER 5 -- SIMULTANEOUS CHORDS AND WALKING BASS LINES | |
Lesson 1: The Basic Voicings | |
Lesson 2: Bass Lines---Scalewise Approach | |
Lesson 3: Bass Lines---Half-Step Approaches | |
Lesson 4: Bass Lines---Rhythm | |
Lesson 5: Bass Lines ii-V7-I Patterns | |
Everything You're Not | |
Lesson 6: Bass Lines---Combining Techniques | |
Accompaniment for Everything You're Not | |
CHAPTER 6 -- SEARCHING OUT NEW VOICINGS | |
Lesson 1: Moving Voices | |
Lesson 2: Symmetrical Chord Movement | |
Coda 1---A Medley of Suggestions and Musical Concepts for Chord-Melody Playing | |
Creating Arrangements | |
Listening to the Greats | |
Reality Check | |
Byesville | |
CHAPTER 7 -- IMPROVISING OVER ALTERED DOMINANT CHORDS | |
Lesson 1: The Diminished Scale | |
Train | |
Lesson 2: The Whole Tone Scale | |
Once | |
Lesson 3: The Super Locrian Mode (Diminished Whole Tone Scale) | |
Moon | |
Lesson 4: Using the Altered Scale Over a ii-V7-I Progression | |
Lesson 5: Targeting the Altered Chords---The Altered Clusters | |
Lesson 6: Revamping Licks | |
CHAPTER 8 -- THE MINOR SCALES AND THEIR MODES | |
Lesson 1: The Melodic Minor Scale | |
Lesson 2: The Modes of the Melodic Minor Scale | |
Lesson 3: Arpeggios in the Melodic Minor Scale | |
Lesson 4: The Harmonic Minor Scale | |
Lesson 5: The Modes of the Harmonic Minor Scale | |
Lesson 6: Arpeggios in the Harmonic Minor Scale | |
Lesson 7: The ii mi7 Flat 5-V7 Flat 9-i mi7 Progression | |
CHAPTER 9 -- USING ARPEGGIOS | |
Lesson 1: Chord Superimposition | |
Lesson 2: Melodic Patterns Based Around Arpeggios | |
Lesson 3: Melodic Patterns Based Around Chord Shapes | |
CHAPTER 10 -- EIGHT-TONE SCALES | |
The Eight-Tone ii-V7 Scale | |
The Eight-Tone I Scale | |
CHAPTER 11 -- CONNECTING YOUR IDEAS | |
Lesson 1: The Chromatic Connection | |
Lesson 2: Accentuating the Difference Between Keys | |
Lesson 3: Repeating an Idea in Different Octaves | |
Lesson 4: Rhythmic Motives | |
Lesson 5: Melodic Connection | |
Lesson 6: Diatonic Connection | |
Coda 2---A Medley of Suggestions and Musical Concepts for Improvisation | |
Playing on the Extensions Using Advanced Pentatonics | |
Playing on the Extensions Using Tones from 13 Chords | |
Playing with Wider Intervals | |
Octave Displacement | |
Symmetrical Motives | |
Conclusion |
Additional Information
Series: | Complete Method |
Author: | Jody Fisher |
Instrument: | Guitar |
Version: | Standard Notation & TAB |
Format: | Book |
Page Count: | 64 |
Item Number: | 00-14117 |
ISBN 10: | 0-7390-2590-2 |
ISBN 13: | 978-0-7390-2590-1 |
UPC: | 038081126852 |
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