LARRY CORYELL

CORYELL LARRY, JAZZ GUITAR EXERCISAS, SCALES & MODES. CD TAB.

Product Description:
Larry Coryell discusses and illustrates scales, modes, finger exercises, improvisation and chords. This book offers notation, tablature, and three audio CDs for the intermediate to advanced student.

Format: Book/3-CD Set

Contents:

One On One with Larry Coryell - An interview by Dr. Joe Barth

LESSON ONE:
The C scale and its ramifications
Aspects of fingering the C scale and variations
Modes: Ionian, Dorian, Phyrgian, Mixolydian, Aeolian and Locrian
Transposing of modes
Intervals and positioning of chords

LESSON TWO:
Artificial and real harmonics
Lenny Breau's ripple effect
Chromatic scale played with artificial harmonics to develop control
Fingering exercises to strengthen the left and right hands
The 2-4-1-4 Exercise
Japanese Gratitude Exercise
7/4 diminished exercise descending in whole steps

LESSON THREE:
Discussion of minor thirds
1+2 Scale (a more sophisticated expression of the diminished scale)
The melody, structure and improvisation potential of the original composition 1+2 Blues
Further explorations in modes

CORYELL LARRY, JAZZ GUITAR VOLUME 1. TAB. DVD

Born April 2, 1943 in Galveston, Texas, Larry Coryell played piano as a child, then as a teenager switched to the guitar. He went on to carve out his unique voice as a jazz fusion guitarist in the late '60s and '70s. Early on he played with Chico Hamilton, Gary Burton and Herbie Mann and has gone on to play with many other great jazz musicians of our time