GREEN GRANT, BEST OF. A step-by-step breakdown of the guitar styles and techniques of the jazz groove master. SHEET MUSIC BOOK with CD & GUITAR TABLATURE .
Series: Signature Licks Guitar
Softcover with CD - TAB
Artist: Grant Green
Author: Wolf Marshall
Explore the many stylistic turns of one of the most influential guitarists in jazz! Renowned guitar educator Wolf Marshall takes you inside 13 of Grant Green's most popular tunes to examine his unique lines and musicality. Includes: Airegin - Born to Be Blue - Cool Blues - If I Should Lose You - My Favorite Things - Oleo - Sookie Sookie - Stella by Starlight - This Could Be the Start of Something Big - Tune Up , and more. The CD includes full demos. 88 pages
TiTLES :
Ain't It Funky Now, Pt. 2
Airegin
Born To Be Blue
Cool Blues
If I Should Lose You
Little Girl Blue
My Favorite Things
Oleo
Sookie Sookie
Stella By Starlight
This Could Be The Start Of Something Big
Tune Up
Wives And Lovers (Hey, Little Girl)
INTRODUCTION
Grant Green personifies the appellation "soul jazz." He is one of the most colorful
and exciting guitarists to have emerged from the genre, and his work remains the yardstick
by which subsequent practitioners are measured to the present day. In the early and
mid 1960s, Grant Green was a leading exponent of the burgeoning hard bop movement
and a studio stalwart of countless recording sessions that chronicled the rise of the art
form. In these productive years Green lent his singular blue-tinged touch and talents to
groups led by luminaries like Jimmy Smith, Herbie Hancock, Lee Morgan, Larry Young,
Art Blakey, Lou Donaldson, Jack McDuff, Stanley Turrentine, Hank Mobley, Baby Face
Willette, Johnny Hodges, Ike Quebec, and many others. Green was one of the most prolific
recording artists in the prestigious Blue Note stable. He recorded an unheard-of seventeen
albums in 1961 alone, his first year with the company. Between 1961 and 1965,
his classic jazz years, Green made more records than any other artist at Blue Note.
During this time, in addition to his many sideman sessions, he established a formidable
legacy with a substantial catalog of his own albums as leader.
By decade's end, Green had expanded his artistic vision to include the new
rhythm and blues hybrid dubbed "funky jazz." As a result, in the late 1960s and 1970s he
enjoyed a second prominent and influential career as performer and innovator and was
hailed as the quintessential "groove master" of jazz. Green's contributions in the medium
affected countless players on both sides of the jazz-rock divide. You can put George
Benson, Pat Martino, Henry Johnson, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Carlos Santana, Mark
Whitfield, Eric Gale, John Scofield, Joshua Breakstone, Andy Summers, Melvin Sparks,
Dave Stryker, Kevin Eubanks, and Peter Bernstein on the top of the list.
This is the first Signature Licks book/CD to explore the music, style, and playing
techniques of Grant Green in depth. The note-for-note transcriptions will provide you with
countless hours of revelation, and the matching audio will invite you to step into his musical
world to put the theory into practice-the way Green himself did in his formative years.
The selections reflect the diversity of Green's approach and are drawn from his various
musical epochs. You will find material from the hard bop and soul jazz genres, straightahead
standards and blues, modal jazz outings, and funky rock-influenced sessions, all
attesting to the many shades of Green that have endured to become a vital piece of the
mosaic we know and love as the American musical experience.
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Green's two-chorus solo in "If I Should Lose You" is one of the finest of his early
years, a superb example of his hard-bop improvisation in a moderate swing tempo.
Throughout, he cultivates a relaxed soulful feeling distinguished by thoughtful melodic
invention and an ever-present rhythmic congruence.
Green plays unmistakable blues-based licks in Bb minor over the song's minormode
areas to begin each A section in measures 1-3, 17-19, 33-35, and 50-51.
Moreover, his cadential lines at the end of each sixteen-measure section, beginning with
the opening break, are harmonically active bop melodies that emphasize the movement
to and arrival in Bb minor. Green also imbues the crucial secondary dominant-seventh
sections of the song with related minor-mode sounds. In measures 13-14 and 45-46, he
applies characteristic Bb minor lines to Eb9, and approaches each phrase with an altered
dominant melody based on F, the V chord of Bb minor, in measures 12 and 44.
Green favors swing-oriented ideas and generally simpler, more diatonic bop lines
during the contrasting but tonally related major-mode portions (in Gb and Dbmajor) of the
tune. Check out measures 4-11,21-27,36-43, and 53-58. These measures contain a
mixture of scalar and arpeggiated patterns shaped into memorable solo phrases. A case
in point is the voice-leading figure in measures 8-10, a well-known and favorite Green
cliche. This trademark phrase implies an Ebm7-Ab7-Dbmaj7 progression with a descending
minor-seventh arpeggio (Db-Bb-Gb-Eb), disguised chromatic motion arranged in a
familiar zigzagging pattern of Eb-Bb-D-Bb-Db-Bb-C, a rising 9th chord arpeggio
(C-Eb-Gb-Bb), stepwise descent (Bb-Ab-Gb), and a resolving target figure (Gb-E-F).
Green pursues and develops a simple motive in measures 37-39 with an
inescapable logic. Note the melodic expansion and rotation in this three-part phrase.
Green was a master of this sort of melodic invention, and was able, on the fly, to harness
the same elements and procedures used by great classical composers to produce similar
thematically coherent results in improvisation.
Green plays signature raked arpeggio patterns in measures 20, 57, 60, and
62. These short, crammed figures are articulated with sweep picking in both ascending
and descending motion. Green applies side-slipping (in this instance "slipping" a half step
higher) in measures 46-47 to momentarily suggest the remote key center of A minor over
Eb7 and Ebm7. The phrase is made more striking with his barrage of crammed triplet
rhythms. Green's prevalent use of eighth-note triplet rhythm patterns in the solo further
energizes important phrases throughout, most notably in measures 27-28, 32, 43-44,
47-48, and 63-64. Another ear-catching highlight is the funky double-stop figure in measures
51-52. Here Green combines an anchoring pedal tone (Db)with a descending chromatic line.
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