FAST FORWARD, JAZZ GUITAR IMPROVISATION. CD TABLATURE
LIBRO DI MUSICA PER CHITARRA CON CD E TABLATURE
So you want to play jazz and improvise like a real pro? This book will show you how, fast! First learn a few basics: the all-important scales, fingering and chord sequences, starting with a simple Bossa nova solo. then move on to arpeggios and more complex patterns such as the be-bop scale. Experiment with melodic shapes and discover the jazz-based blues progression used at most standard jazz gigs. The music examples then demonstrate rhythmic and free flowing ideas with lots of tips on the advanced techniques used by professional jazzers. In no time at all you will be creating your own solos in the style of such great jazz legends as Wes Montgomery, Charlie Christian, Sonny Rollins and Jim Hall.
Five complete solos are included in the book in easy-to-follow tab.
On the CD you'll find a matching audio track to every music example in the book. Each track is recorded twice: first with the guitar, the with backing track only so you can play the guitar part.
Playing A Solo
Imagine you're in a recording studio. The red
light is on; there's a session in progress. You can
just about make out the faces of the engineer and
the other band members behind the glass. You're
holding a guitar, and through your headphones
you're listening to the tracks for a newly-recorded
song. Verses and choruses pass by, and soon ...
very soon ... it will be time to record a solo. How
confident would you feel about playing the
session?
FastForward Jazz Guitar Improvisation will
give you the confidence to create awe-inspiring
jazz solos and breaks. No-one can teach you how
to improvise - however, you can learn a lot about
technique and musical sense to give you a better
chance of being able to playa great solo when
the time comes!
The book is divided into five sections. Each
section represents a different recording session
and a different style of playing, including Bossa
Nova, and Blues and Jazz progressions. Before
each solo, you get to playa few simple phrases at
a slow tempo and practise some scale patterns
and some other ideas that you could use in a solo
of your own.
Then it's your chance to learn a solo (usually 24
bars) that fits the chord sequence and is
accompanied by a 'Spotlight on Technique' which
focuses on some of the ideas featured in the solo.
Later, you can use the backing tracks to
improvise your own lead breaks. Each backing
track is twice the length of the solo track, to give
you more time to get your creative juices going!
Along the way this book will answer some of the
common questions players have about soloing:
What scales should I be using?
Do I have to change the scale when the chord
changes?
Which scales go with jazz? Are these the same as
for other styles of music?
What is syncopation?
Which scales go with which key?
How do I build a whole solo?
How do I make the scales I know sound more
like a solo?
Each example is given in musical score and in
guitar tablature. With the latter each number
indicates the fret at which the note is played,
each line is a string. If you find it hard to
remember which way up they go, think always of
pitch: high notes are above low notes, therefore
the high-sounding string (1st E) is at the top.
Each musical example is played once with the
lead guitar, and once without. The first is for you
to learn by listening, the second 'play-along' track
is for you to practise.
The examples have a one-bar count-in.
TRACK I Tuning notes
Guitar Tablature Explained
Introduction
Playing A Solo
Chapter 1: The Big Bossa
Bossa Nova Scale Shapes
Arpeggio Chord Tones
Five-note Scale
Scale Patterns
Spotlight On Techniques
The Big Bossa (solo)
Chapter 2: Where's Montgomery?
Blues Scales
Blues Arpeggios
Arpeggio Impro
Solo Patterns
Spotlight On Techniques
Where's Montgomery? (solo)
Chapter 3: Tune For Toots
Scale Shapes
Repeating Patterns
Arpeggio Shapes
Classic Chord Sequence
Spotlight On Techniques
Tune For Toots (solo)
Chapter 4: Bygones
The Circle Of Fifths
Half-scale Patterns
Arpeggios In Fifths
D Minor Arpeggio Patterns
Spotlight On Techniques
Bygones (solo)
Chapter 5: Song For Sonny And Jim
Standard Scale Shapes
Repeated Scale Patterns
Standard Arpeggio Shapes
Chord Tone Patterns
Spotlight On Techniques
Song For Sonny And Jim (solo)
Conclusion
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