GUITAR SIGNATURE LICKS

BON JOVI GUITAR STYLES TECHNIQUES RICHIE SAMBORA LIBRO CD TABLATURE Signature Licks TECNICA

BON JOVI, A STEP-BY-STEP BREAKDOWN OF THE GUITAR STYLES AND TECHNIQUES OF RICHIE SAMBORA. CD TABLATURE

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Series: Signature Licks Guitar

Format: Softcover with CD - TAB

Author: Andrew DuBrock

Artist: Bon Jovi

 

Examine the riffs & solos of guitar great Richie Sambora, who gives Bon Jovi its signature sound. Includes these hits in notes & tab: 

Song List:

Bad Medicine

Born To Be My Baby

Have A Nice Day

I'll Be There For You

In And Out Of Love

It's My Life

Keep The Faith

Lay Your Hands On Me

Livin' On A Prayer

Runaway

Wanted Dead Or Alive

You Give Love A Bad Name

 

Width: 9.0"

Length: 12.0"

80 pages

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B.B. KING-BLUES LEGEND A Step-by-Step Guitar Styles and Techniques CD TABLATURE CHITARRA SPARTITI

B.B. KING, BLUES LEGEND. A Step-by-Step Breakdown of His Guitar Styles and Techniques. CD TABLATURE

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B.B.'s Boogie
Blue Shadows
Everyday I Have The Blues
Help The Poor
How Blue Can You Get
It's My Own Fault Darlin'
Just Like A Woman
Lucille
Please Accept My Love
Shake It Up And Go
So Excited
Woke Up This Morning

 

B.B. King - Legenda del Blues

L'analisi passo per passo del suo stile e della sua tecnica chitarristica.

Serie: Signature Licks Guitar
Formato: Softcover with CD - TAB
Artista: B.B. King
Autore: Dave Rubin

Impara i guitar licks che hanno fatto di B.B. il Re indiscutibile del Blues! David Rubin ti insegna 12 assoli autentici di B.B King: Boogie • Blue Shadows • Everyday I Have the Blues • Help the Poor • How Blue Can You Get • It's My Own Fault Darlin' • Just like a Woman • Lucille • Please Accept My Love • Shake It Up and Go • So Excited • Woke Up This Morning.

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Lunghezza: 12.0"
48 pagine
 

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STERN MIKE Guitar Styles & Techniques of a Jazz-Fusion Signature Licks CD TABLATURE SPARTITI

Mike Stern, A Step-By-Step Breakdown of the Guitar Styles & Techniques of a Jazz-Fusion Pioneer. SHEET MUSIC BOOK WITH CD & GUITAR TABLATURE .

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MIKE STERN
A Step-By-Step Breakdown of the Guitar Styles & Techniques of a Jazz-Fusion Pioneer
Series: Signature Licks GUITAR
Format: Softcover Audio Online – TAB
Serie: Signature Licks Guitar
Autore: Joe Charupakorn
Artista: Mike Stern

Scopri la magia di un asso di chitarra Mike Stern con l'edizione speciale di Assoli d'Autore che includono le interviste e le lezioni con Stern, informazini esclusive sull'attrezzatura, l'analisi approfondita di 14 titoli e in più un CD audio con tutti  gli esempi musicali del libro. Le canzoni sono: After You • Jigsaw • Like Someone in Love • One Liners • Play •Sunnyside • Swunk • There Is No Greater Love • Tipatina's • Wing and a Prayer • e altre.

Inventory #HL 00695800
ISBN: 9780634068010
UPC: 073999813074
Larghezza: 9.0"
Lunghezza: 12.0"
128 pagine

 

Discover the magic of guitar wizard Mike Stern with this special edition of Signature Licks that includes an interview and lesson with Stern, exclusive gear info, in-depth analysis of 14 songs, plus recordings of demos for all the music examples in the book! Songs include: After You • Jigsaw • Like Someone in Love • One Liners • Play • Sunnyside • Swunk • There Is No Greater Love • Tipatina's • Wing and a Prayer • and more. The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right. 

 

After Blood, Sweat & Tears, Stern returned to Boston and played with saxophonist

Jerry Bergonzi (who he met through his teacher, the late Charlie Banacos). He also took

over Bill Frisell's spot in trumpeter Tiger Okoshi's Tiger's Baku, a band that Frisell helped

put together. In 1979, Stern landed his next big gig, with drummer Billy Cobham. During

a gig with Cobham at the now-defunct Bottom Line in New York City, Miles Davis (at the

suggestion of saxophonist Bill Evans) came to check out Stern. He liked what he heard

and Stern got the ultra high-profile gig for Davis's 1981 comeback tour. It was a major

milestone in Stern's career, and one that catapulted him into jazz stardom.

Stern played on three Miles Davis albums: The Man With the Horn, which featured a

burning solo on the first cut "Fat Time" (named in Stern's honor for both his great timefeel

and his at-the-time, corpulent physique); We Want Miles, a great live album; and Star

People, which also featured guitarist John Scofield, who was recruited as a second guitarist

because of Stern's then drug and alcohol problem. Having gradually become unreliable,

Davis ultimately let Stern go, to sober up.

During this time, Stern reconnected with Jaco Pastorius, playing in his Word of Mouth

band. They also played together nonstop when Stern lived above 55 Grand Street, a New

York City jazz club they played at since its inception (not to be confused with the 55 Bar

on Christopher Street, where Stern currently plays twice a week when he's in town). Jaco

wound up crashing at Stern's pad and the two were inseparable, playing at all hours of

the day and blowing lines over changes. Alas, they were also doing "white lines" to the

point of losing control. Stern checked into rehab, and in 1985, the cleaned-up guitarist

rejoined the Miles Davis band. Pastorius, however, never cleaned up. The drugs and alcohol

had severely impacted his mental state and behavior for the worse, and in 1987, during

an altercation with a bouncer outside a nightclub in Florida, he was tragically beaten

to death.

Since his tenure with Miles Davis, Stern has gone on to perform and record with

Michael Brecker, the Brecker Brothers, Bob Berg (with whom he co-led the Mike Stern/

Bob Berg band), Jaco Pastorius's Word of Mouth band, Steps Ahead, David Sanborn, Joe

Henderson, George Coleman, Ron Carter, Jim Hall, and Pat Martino, among others.

Stern has also recorded numerous solo albums-the first being Neesh, in 1983, which

was recorded for Trio (a Japanese label), right after Stern first left Miles Davis's band. It

was recently re-released, but only in Japan (on Absord Music Japan). In 1986, Stern

signed a deal with Atlantic Records and recorded Upside Downside. This marked the

beginning of a 15-year association with Atlantic Records that spawned ten albums and

three Grammy nominations. In 2004, with the demise of the jazz department at Atlantic

Records, Stern recorded his first album for ESC Records, These Times (now available on

BHM Records). In 2006 Stern moved to Heads Up International Records for his release

Who Let the Cats Out?, which garnered Stern a fourth Grammy nomination. A live DVD,

Live-New Morning The Paris Concert was also released in 2006, by independent

German label, lnakustik. This DVD featured Richard Bona, Dennis Chambers, and Bob

Franceschini. In 2009, a sequel to Live-New Morning The Paris Concert was released

and features Tom Kennedy, Dave Weckl, and Bob Franceschini. Big Neighborhood,

Stern's most explosive guitar album to date, was also released in 2009 and featured virtuoso

guitarists Steve Vai and Eric Johnson, among others. Stern's earlier Atlantic recordings,

with the exception of Play and Voices (which are still available through Warner

Music), are now distributed by Wounded Bird Records, a CD-only re-issue label.

Despite Stern's enormous status as a world-renowned jazz-fusion guitar virtuoso, his

prodigious technical abilities (which he seamlessly combines with a heartfelt lyricism),

and his impressive history onstage with countless jazz legends, Stern is a humble and

grounded musician whose sole mission is to constantly grow as a player. "The more I

know, the less I know" is one of Stern's favorite quotes, and it is indicative of his approach

to music, as a neverending quest.

For this Signature Licks edition we have enlisted Mike Stern as a consultant. He offers

not only unique analytical and historical insight for each selection but also a special private

lesson, to help you understand the theory behind his burnin' lines. And indirectly,

large portions of the information in this book have been gathered over the years, during

my studies with Stem and om itnessing countless live shows.

 

ONE ON ONE WITH MIKE STERN

What was the first jazz solo that had an impact on you?

Well that's a hard question because my mom used to playa lot of jazz records so I always

heard jazz around the house. I started playing when I was 12, but I was 17 when I started

getting more into jazz. I guess it was something off a Miles Davis record. One of the

first records I used to scope was Herbie Hancock's Maiden Voyage. That was one of the

first albums that I checked out and tried to play along with. At the time, I was listening to

more blues, rock, and Motown, and playing along by ear.

When you played along with Maiden Voyage, were you soloing over it or were you

trying to play the actual parts?

I was doing a little bit of both-the actual parts and the solos.

Do you remember the first solo you transcribed?

Yeah, it was a Joe Pass solo. I picked a blues because it's an easy form and Joe's solo

had a lot of inside bebop. It was a medium swing, not a real fast tempo.

Did he playa lot of sixteenth notes in the solo?

He was playing a lot of eighth notes, just a lot of really cool bebop lines. Joe was a very

clear, inside player in a lot of ways. He didn't go outside the key too much, and it was very

clear what he did when he did go out, the way he outlined it. He was amazing like that.

There was a lot of bebop vocabulary; he used to play with Oscar Peterson. It took me

about three weeks to transcribe the solo. I had to slow the record player down, which

almost ruined the record. Finally I taped it and finished the rest. Later on I showed it to

some people and they said most of it was wrong [laughs]. But doing it myself was amazingly

helpful.

After you learned the solo did you take licks from it and use them in your own playing?

A little bit, and some of the phrasing, too. It's like when you read a book or short storyyou

don't memorize every word; you just take certain things away from it and then enough

of the remaining information goes unconsciously into your brain, or in the case of music,

into your ear. Over time, if you take from enough different solos from different people, you

don't sound like just one guy.

For a long time now, I've been more into copping piano and saxophone solos. But

when I was first transcribing, it was guitar because it was my own instrument-and that

was hard enough. But like I said, transcribing lines for myself was really helpful; I got a lot

more out of it that way than from reading it from a book.

Were you writing out the solos?

Yeah, I wrote them down. Then I'd read through it, not so much to cop licks but more like

reading a magazine or a short book, where you might remember a couple of phrases and

quote from it-you don't memorize every word. Some people go too far and memorize the

whole solo, but the idea is to learn how to phrase unconsciously and then twist it around

your own way, as a kind of springboard for your own ideas. That way you get a vocabulary

in a certain style; for instance, if you want to work on your bebop vocabulary, you do

a lot of bebop players. I did a bunch of guitar players at first-Joe Pass, Jim Hall, Wes

Montgomery, George Benson-and then I got into horn players.

INTRODUCTION
DISCOGRAPHY
THE RECORDING
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
MIKE STERN'S GEAR
ONE ON ONE WITH MIKE STERN
BOP 'N ROLL: A LESSONS WITH MIKE STERN

After You - Mike Stern - 1986
Jigsaw - Mike Stern - 1989
Like Someone In Love - Words: Johnny Burke, Music: Jimmy Van Heusen - 1944
Odds Or Evens - Mike Stern - 1991
One Liners - Mike Stern - 1997
Play - Mike Stern - 1999
Showbiz - Mike Stern - 1996
Sunnyside - Mike Stern - 1996
Swunk - Mike Stern - 1994
That's What You Think - Mike Stern - 1997
There Is No Greater Love - Words: Marty Symes, Music: Isham Jones - 1936
Tipatina's - Mike Stern - 1999
Upside Downside - Mike Stern - 1986
Wing And A Prayer - Mike Stern - 1996

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BURRELL KENNY Step-By-Step Guitar Styles Techniques Jazz Legend LIBRO CD TABLATURE CHITARRA

BURRELL KENNY, A Step-By-Step Breakdown of the Guitar Styles and Techniques of a Jazz Legend.

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All Night Long -All Of You -Autumn Leaves -Do What You Gotta Do -Groovin' High -In A Sentimental Mood -K.B. Blues -Lyresto -Moment's Notice -My Favorite Things -Since I Fell For You -Soulful Brothers -This Time The Dream's On Me -Wholly Cats. CD TABLATURE


Techniques of a Jazz Legend
Series: Signature Licks Guitar
Format: Softcover with CD - TAB
Artist : Kenny Burrell
Author : Wolf Marshall

Inventory #HL 00695830
ISBN: 9780634074431
UPC: 073999567892
Width: 9.0"
Length: 12.0"
128 pages

It is hard to think of a jazz artist-make that any artist·with as much breadth depth, and sheer longevity as Kenny Burrell. His career, now over a half long has spanned all the major epochs of the art form and continues to flourish. Him gegan his professional life in the mid forties as swing music made its inexorable trans to bebop and modern jazz. He was one of the earliest guitarists in the medio to assimilate the novel innovations of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Clifford Brown, O. Peterson and mix them with his seminal swing and blues influences. Burrell early mosaic, already a diverse mix of swing, blues, and modern jazz, included Christian, Django Reinhardt, and Oscar Moore as well as T-Bone Walker, John L. Hooker, Waters, Floyd Smith, Johnny Moore, and the full gamut of jazz and keyboard players. The results were heard in strong relief with his output of the mid '50 on the Blue Note and Prestige labels. From there, Burrell assumed the role of trendsetter and has si ce been viewed as one of the genre's major innovators and leaders. By decade's end he as redefining the sonic possibilities of jazz guitar on his groundbreaking guitar-bass-drums recordings and set new standards in the organ-trio medium through his inventive and sympathetic work with Jimmy Smith. A Night at the Vanguard (1959) demonstrated wha a gui ar could do as the sole melodic/harmonic instrument in a combo setting. And Jimmy Smith recordings like The Sermon (1958), Home Gookin' (1959), Back at the Ghicken Shack (1960), and Midnight Special (1960) produced a template which is followed assiduously to this day. Never content to rest on his laurels, Burrell continued with a number of ambitious and successful experiments mating the jazz guitar to a wider variety of combo and orchestral applications. Moreover, Burrell's landmark efforts in the burgeoning soul-jazz style influenced legions of guitar players and other instrumentalists across various stylistic divides and indeed presaged the funk styles percolating and emerging in the late sixties. Since then, Burrell has touched virtually every form in the genre from the grittiest, folksy blues, funky soul-jazz, and traditional gospel hymns to esoteric modal jazz and the loftiest post-bop modern styles-always delivered with taste, musical sensitivity, and his personal, highly identifiable stamp. His appropriately titled opus Guitar Forms (1965), presented another side of his artistry and showcased many of his diverse tangents in microcosm, from the acoustic classical guitar/amplified jazz guitar and orchestral combinations in "Greensleeves" and his solo nylon-string adaptation of George Gershwin's "Prelude #2" to his Spanish/Mexican-influenced original "Loie," the down-home blues bent of "Downstairs," and the straight-ahead jazz rendition of "Breadwinner." Kenny Burrell continues to lead and inspire guitarists to the present day. His legacy is assured and implicit in his overriding credo: "Let your spirit come through and you will always touch others. Give the music your personal best. Be yourself-it works.". Truer words were never spoken. Kenny Burrell personifies and epitomizes the word and mood "blue." An attribute that permeates the heart of jazz, blue is a universal feeling, a resonance extending to all forms of music. Kenny said as much, in words and sounds, in his aptly titled work Blues: the Gommon Ground. And he has done much to show us the many hues of blue in his copious repertory. Over the years, Kenny has gained considerable cachet with evocative titles like K.B. Blues, Blue Moods, Blue Lights, Bluesin' Around, Midnight Blue, Blue Bash, Blues: the Gommon Ground, and his recent Blue Muse. Each underscores the fact that shades of indigo are primary colors in his artistic palette and convey the essence of his musical persona.

Take an in-depth look at Kenny Burrell's jazz guitar mastery with Wolf Marshall, who will teach you how to play some of his hottest licks. Wolf covers 14 tunes. The CD features a demo of each. 128 pages

Preface
Introduction
The Kenny burrell sound
Discography
The Recording
History and Highlights
Tuning
Guitar Notation legend

1959 - All Night Long - All night long, 1959
1954 - All Of You - COLE PORTER - Burrell, 1957
1947 - Autumn Leaves - JOSEPH KOSMA, parole: JACQUES PREVERT - sunup to sundown, 1991
1971 - Do What You Gotta Do - God bless the child, 1971
1944 - Groovin' High - John "Dizzy" Gillespie - Groovin' high, 1981
1935 - In A Sentimental Mood - DUKE ELLINGTON - Lucky so and so, 2001
1957 - K.B. Blues 
1958 - Lyresto - Kenny Burrell - BURRELL with JOHN COLTRANE 1958 - 
1957 - Moment's Notice - JOHN COLTRANE - Guilding spirit, 1989
1959 - My Favourite Things - RICHARD RODGERS - the sound of music, 1966
1948 - Since I Fell For You ('Round midnight) - Buddy Johnson - 'ROUND MIDNIGHT, 1972
1968 - Soulful Brothers - BURRELL, WARREN STEVENS - Blues the common ground, 1968
1941 - This Time The Dream's On Me - Music: HAROLD ARLEN - Parole: Johnny Mercer - Burrell, 1956
1941 - Wholly Cats - BENNY GOODMAN - a genaration ago today, 1966

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KESSEL BARNEY Step-by-Step Guitar Styles Techniques CD TABLATURE LIBRO SPARTITI CHITARRA

KESSEL BARNEY, passo per passo il suo stile tecnico e chitarristico. BOOK CD TABLATURE

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This entry in the Guitar Signature Licks series is dedicated to the sounds and techniques of Barney Kessel. Barney is a guitarist who is acclaimed as an important transitional figure, one who was pivotal-essential-in the jazz genre as the music evolved past its swing roots into bebop, hard bop, and modern jazz. The selections in this volume are gathered from, arguably, his most significant and influential period: the 1950s, when jazz guitar was still in its infancy. Several pieces are presented in their entirety: "Tenderly," "Salute to Charlie Christian," "Speak Low," and three Poll Winners trio tunes, "Minor Mood," "Foreign Intrigue," and "I'm Afraid the Masquerade Is Over." These are guitar intensive arrangements that showcase Barney's guitar role prominently and must be studied as complete works. Listen to the whole track and follow along with the detailed analysis of the distinct sections. Others, like "Barney's Blues," "Indiana," and "64 Bars on Wilshire," are offered in specific sections, where the guitar is stating the theme, interacting with the ensemble, or featured as the solo instrument. The time codes displayed in the selections refer to the original recordings.

Barney Kessel is one of the most famed and beloved jazz guitarists in music history. To many aficionados, his name is synonymous with jazz guitar. Bred on swing music of the 1940s, Kessel was one of the earliest players to absorb the language of modern jazz and bebop, mixing the new and old sounds with a swinging delivery, rhythmic vitality, and musical imagination all his own. His work remains towering and influential to the present, and he is widely acknowledged as one the leading voices of jazz guitar. Born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, on October 17, 1923, Barney Kessel decided on a career in music at an early age. He bought his first guitar at age twelve with money saved from selling newspapers. Essentially self-taught, Kessel received a few rudimentary essons in a Federal Music Program of the WPA in the summer of 1935. His earliest influences included swing musicians Charlie Christian (guitar) and Lester Young (tenor sax). Over the next four years, Kessel progressed quickly and established a strong regional following, enhanced by performances with the Varsitonians, a twelve-piece college band, while still a young teenager. By 1939, Kessel's reputation had grown to the point that his mentor Charlie Christian sought him out during a visit back home (Oklahoma was also Christian's home state). At age sixteen, Kessel met, hung out, and jammed with his idol, a duly impressed Christian, in early October of 1940. This experience inspired him to pursue a full-time professional career in music. In 1942, Kessel moved to Los Angeles and worked as a dishwasher while he made the musical rounds, sought auditions, and developed contacts. He was soon hired to play in comedian Chico Marx's band, led by drummer Ben Pollock. Kessel rapidly became a major player in the burgeoning West Coast jazz scene, performing and recording with Charlie Parker, Howard McGhee, Wardell Gray, Sonny Criss, and many others. Like many jazz musicians of the era, he also began accepting studio work on radio networks and Hollywood film scores and joined Frank De Vol's commercial orchestra. In 1944, Kessel appeared in Norman Granz's award-winning jazz documentary Jammin'the Blues. He was the only white musician in the film. Kessel also played in numerous big bands between 1945 and 1947, including the ensembles of Charlie Barnet and Artie Shaw. Kessel performed on record dates with Shorty Rogers and Benny Goodman, toured with the Oscar Peterson Trio in 1951-1952, and participated in Norman Granz's prestigious Jazz at the Philharmonic concert series. His contributions to Charlie Parker's legacy, contained in important tracks from 1947 like "Carvin' the Bird" and "Relaxin at Camarillo," brought further acclaim and broadened is jazz credentials. These and other high profile concerts and recordings led 0 e's greater exposure and recognition in America and Europe.

 

Titoli:

(I'm Afraid) The Masquerade Is Over [Magidson, Herb] [Wrube, Allie]

64 Bars On Wilshire

Barney's Blues

Begin The Blues

Contemporary Blues

Easy Like

Foreign Intrigue

Indiana (Back Home Again In Indiana) [Macdonald, Ballad] [Hanley, James]

Minor Mood

On A Slow Boat To China [Loesser, Frank]

Salute To Charlie Christian

Speak Low (One Touch Of Venus) [Weill, Kurt] [Nash, Ogden]

Tenderly [Gross, Walter] [Lawrence, Jack]

Vicky's Dream

 

CD TABLATURE


Wolf Marshall insegna lo stile e la tecnica di una leggenda del jazz, esaminando attentamente 14 titoli. 96 pagine.

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HOOKER JOHN LEE Guitar Styles Techniques CD TABLATURE LIBRO SPARTITI CHITARRA ACCORDI

HOOKER JOHN LEE, A Step-by-Step Breakdown of His Guitar Styles and Techniques. CD TABLATURE

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Series: Signature Licks Guitar

Format: Softcover with CD - TAB
Author : Dave Rubin
Artist : John Lee Hooker

Explore the earthy blues of inimitable guitar legend John Lee Hooker with this book/CD pack! Dave Rubin explores licks from:

Blues Before Sunrise
Boogie Chillen No. 2
Boom Boom
Bottle Up And Go
Catfish Blues
Dimples
Hoogie Boogie
It Serves Me Right To Suffer
Mama, You Got A Daughter
Moaning Blues
One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
This Is Hip (This Is It)
Tupelo (Tupelo Blues)
Wednesday Evening Blues

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BLACK SABBATH GUITAR SIGNATURE LICKS Troy Stetina Hal Leonard DVD-WAR PIGS-Bloody Sabbath

BLACK SABBATH, THE BEST OF, GUITAR LICKS. Troy Stetina. DVD LESSON

DVD METODO LEZIONE DI MUSICA METAL,

LEZIONE DI CHITARRA, PER IMPARARE A SUONARE LA MUSICA DEI BLACK SABBATH.

TECNICA, RIFF, ASSOLI, DVD DIDATTICO,  

 

Accordi di ferro e trilli diabolici. Prima pesanti e lenti blocchi di accordi irremovibili, poi rapidi vibranti tremolo con terzine, e cambi di tempo, Anthony usa in modo inconfondibile, trilli e mordenti, creando una suspence e una tensione particolare alla musica. Il trillo è una rapida sequenza ritmicamente uniforme e prolungata di hammer-on e pull-off tra due note; i mordeneti e i gruppetti sono figure ornamentali sempre legate, tra note adiacenti e di breve durata. Power chords slides, e trilli sono in Black sabbath, N.I.B., wicked World e altre. Enormi e minacciose sfere di piombo scivolano verso noi, ci inseguono! Da piccole fessure fuoriescono improvvisamente protendendosi pericolose sottili lame sflessibili, che tremolanti come serpenti cercano di colpirci, ritornado poi a ritroso all'interno. Anche il jazzista Wes Montgomery che è tra i chitarristi preferiti di Iommi suonava, ma in maniera diversa, con questi abbellimenti. DVD

 

Guitar Signature Licks DVD
Series: DVD
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Medium: DVD
Artist: Black Sabbath
Composer: Troy Stetina

On this info-packed DVD that makes learning licks easy, acclaimed guitarist and educator Troy Stetina teaches Tony Iommi's trademark guitar riffs and solos on eight classics from one of hard rock's greatest bands. Features detailed analysis of: Black Sabbath
Children Of The Grave
Iron Man
N.I.B.
Paranoid
Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath
Sweet Leaf
War Pigs (Interpolating Luke's Wall)
Approximately 60 minutes.

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PETTY TOM GUITAR SIGNATURE LICKS BOOK & CD TABLATURE SPARTITI CHITARRA LIBRO ACCORDI

PETTY TOM, GUITAR SIGNATURE LICKS. CD TABLATURE

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A Step-by-Step Breakdown of the Guitar Styles of Tom Petty and Mike Campbell
Serie: Signature Licks Guitar
Medium: Softcover with CD
Author: Dave Rubin
Artist: Mike Campbell
Artist: Tom Petty

INTRODUZIONE

Venduto più di cinquanta milloni di dischi in tutto il mondo di musica dura e ti musica tenera, Tom Petty ha ontrattato con sucesso ogni decennio della sua carriera che parte a meta degli anni settanta quando lui dormiva sotto punk radar e finoad oggi. Al inizio Petty veniva percepito come un'artista nell'avanguardia della "new wave" quando lui in realtà era uno tradizionalista con le profonde radici nel classic-rock. Lui ha preso questi elementi e ha aggiunto la sua  impronta unica, conferendo alla sua musica un suono fortemente personale. Con il chitarrista solista Mike Campbell al suo fianco che era come Keith Richards per Mick Jagger, Petty ha creato il rock "fuori" dal tempo come erano i suoi illustri predecessori: The Rolling Stones, the Byrds, e Bob Dylan. Thomas Earl Petty era nato a Gainesville, Florida il 20 Ottobre del 1950. Non pensava di suonare la chitarra fino il 1961 quando nella vicina città di Ocala iniziarono le riprese del film "Follow that Dream" con Elvis. Lo zio di Petty aveva una impresa di produzione cinematografica e ha organizzato per il ragazzo grazie ai suoi contatti un breve incontro sul set con the "King". Come raccontava Petty, quell' incontro da vicino con Elvis, che ha appena ricevuto gli applausi della folla gremita, intero spettacolo e il suo entourage: capelli corvini di Elvise, i fans strillanti, di punto in bianco cambiato la  sua vita. Questo suo pensiero "che essere una rock star è un bel lavoro", Petty commercializzò una vera "catapulta " per molti single di Elvis ed è emerso nello studio di musica del leggendario cantante. In più,come moltissimi altri, l'aver visto i Beatles" all' Ed Sullivan Show al inizio del 1964 ha deciso il suo futuro: doveva proprio fare qualcosa anche lui. Al età di 14 anni, Petty suonava la chitarra nelle band come Sundowners ed Epics. Grazie ad Epics incontra Tom Leadon. Interessante che il fratello di Tom - Berni era il membro fondatore del mega stars The Eagles. A dicciasette anni Petty lascia lo studio e crea insieme ad Leadon e il tastierista Benmont Tench Mudcrutch. Mike Campbell viene aggiunto come secondo chitarrista e Petty all'inizio suonava il basso fino quando il Leadon è partito per California nel 1972. Mudcrutch faceva i tour nei stati del Sud -Est per qualche anno arrivando ad avere la grande popolarità e condividendo le locandine con Lynyrd Skynyrd.

 

Selling more than fifty million records worldwide of music both tough and tender, Tom Petty has successfully negotiated every decade in his career-beginning in the mid-seventies, when he slipped in under the punk radar, up to the present. Petty was originally perceived as being in the avanguard of the "new wave," when he was, in fact, a traditionalist with deep classic-rock roots. He took these elements and added his unique stamp, giving his music a highly personal sound. With lead guitarist Mike Campbell at his side, akin to the role of Keith Richards to Mick Jagger, Petty has created rock as timeless as his illustrious predecessors the Rolling Stones, the Byrds, and Bob Dylan. Thomas Earl Petty was born in Gainesville, Florida on October 20, 1950. He had not thought about playing music until 1961, when Elvis was in nearby Ocala shooting on location for Follow that Dream. Petty's uncle had a film-developing business and, through his contacts, arranged for the youngster to briefly meet the "King" on the set. Elvis just "grunted" a greeting, according to Petty, but this close encounter, and the entire spectacle with the entourage-Presley's jet-black hair and screaming fans-changed his life on the spot. Thinking that being a rock star "looked like a great job," Petty traded a slingshot for a stack of Elvis singles and immersed himself in learning the music of the legendary singer. In addition, like countless others, seeing the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show in early 1964 sealed his fate; he had to go out and rock. By age fourteen, Petty was playing guitar in bands such as the Sundowners, and later, the Epics. It was through the Epics that Petty met guitarist Tom Leadon. Interestingly, Tom's brother, Bernie Leadon, was a founding member of rock mega-stars, the Eagles. At seventeen, Petty quit high school and joined Leadon and keyboardist Benmont Tench in Mudcrutch. Mike Campbell was added as a second guitarist, and Petty initially played bass until Leadon left for California in 1972. Mudcrutch ran around the Southeast circuit for a few years, reaching a significant level of local stardom and often sharing bills with Lynyrd Skynyrd. The band made a trip to Capricorn Records in Georgia only to be told they were "too British" for a label pushing Southern blues-rock with the likes of the Allman Brothers Band and the Marshall Tucker Band. Ironically, Petty has stated that his bands were always into the blues, could play the style authentically, and even recorded some blues numbers, but it was these tracks that were always the first to be excised from their albums by the label. Using borrowed money, the band recorded two tracks-"Up in Mississippi Tonight" and "Cause Is Understood"-and released them independently. Discouraged by the Capricorn Records experience, but encouraged by Tom Leadon's success in the West, Petty took a copy of Mudcrutch's home demo, On the Street, to Shelter Records, in Hollywood-a label that was recently formed by Leon Russell and Denny Cordell. Petty eventually moved Mudcrutch to Los Angeles in 1974, and the band signed a contract with Shelter Records and released one single, "Depot." Purportedly, Petty took some guitar lessons from Eagles guitarist Don Felder while in Southern California. After a long and fruitless year trying to record an album, Petty quit the band and tried to make a go of it as a solo act, recording with a group of top LA session cats. As good as they were, Petty tired of working with hired guns and hooked back up with Campbell and Tench in 1975. Along with bassist Ron Blair and drummer Steve Lynch, the Heartbreakers were formed. Petty assumed control of the band, renaming it Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, and took them back to Shelter Records, where he was still under contract. The band went into the studio again as a group and recorded Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, which was released in 1976. This LP languished stateside until the Heartbreakers toured England, opening for Nils Lofgren, and created a buzz that  

Examine the masterful axe work that supports the songs of this classic rock legend! Dave Rubin provides detailed analysis of Tom & Mike's on:

l'autore insieme Tom, Jeff Lynne è il "capoccione" della Electric Light Orchestra E.L.O. 

anno  -  titolo  -  Album  -  Parole e musica di:

1976  -  American Girl  -  Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers  -  parole e musica di Tom Petty 
1976  -  Breakdown  -  Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers  -  parole e musica di Tom Petty 
1979  -  Don't Do Me Like That  -  Damn the Torpedoes-  parole e musica di Tom Petty 
1989   -  Free Fallin'  -  Full Moon Fever  -  parole e musica di Tom Petty e Jeff Lynne
1989   -  I Won't Back Down  -  Full Moon Fever  -  parole e musica di Tom Petty e Jeff Lynne
1991  -  Into The Great Wide Open  -  Into the Great Wide Open  -  parole e musica di Tom Petty e Jeff Lynne
1991  -  Learning To Fly  -  Into the Great Wide Open  -  parole e musica di Tom Petty e Jeff Lynne
1993  -  Mary Jane's Last Dance  -  Greatest Hits  -  parole e musica di Tom Petty
1979  -  Refugee  -  Damn the Torpedoes  -  parole e musica di Tom Petty e Mike Campbell
1989  -  Runnin' Down A Dream  -  Full Moon Fever  -  parole e musica di Tom Petty e Jeff Lynne, Mike Campbell
1994  -  You Don't Know How It Feels  -  Wildflowers  -  parole e musica di Tom Petty

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WINTER JOHNNY, Guitar Styles Techniques of a Blues Legend, Signature Licks CD TABLATURE Rock Me Baby

WINTER JOHNNY, Guitar Styles and Techniques of a Blues Legend, Signature Licks. CD TABLATURE

Johnny Winter 
A Step-By-Step Breakdown of the Guitar Styles and Techniques of a Blues Legend
Series: Signature Licks Guitar
Format: Softcover with CD - TAB
Author: Dave Rubin
Artist: Johnny Winter

Take an in-depth look at the fiery blues stylings of Johnny Winter with this instructional book/CD pack. You'll learn the main licks from 12 songs, including: Bad Luck Situation - Be Careful with a Fool - Bladie Mae - Highway 61 Revisited - It Was Raining - Leland Mississippi - Mean Town Blues - Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo - Rock Me Baby - Still Alive and Well - Sweet Love & Evil Women - TV Mama. 96 pages

Inventory #HL 00695951
ISBN: 9781423416418
UPC: 884088096311
Width: 9.0"
Length: 12.0"
96 pages

JOHNNY WINTER: WHITE LIGHT

As if to mock the very notion of whether or not a "white man can play the blues,"
Johnny Winter, with his nearly translucent albino skin and blindingly white hair, blasted
down the doors starting in the late 1960s for everyone who loved the music. He once said,
perhaps ironically, "In my own mind, I was the best white blues player around," but clearly
that qualification no longer applies. The legendary Lonnie Mack and the British contingent
of Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Mick Taylor, and Jimmy Page before him had shown
the possibilities of rocking the blues, but no one was adequately prepared for Winter.
Notes flew from his fingers like blazing blue diamonds, creating shock and awe for everyone
within sight and earshot. It was the perfect culmination to the blues revival with Winter
carrying the torch while throwing gasoline on the fire. He would go on to not only influence
fellow Texans like Billy Gibbons and Stevie Ray Vaughan, but also the stone
Chicago blues cat Bernard Allison. Most significantly, for more than forty years he has
played and contributed to the musical language of the blues in ways that were only
strengthened by his numerous forays into rock.
John Dawson Winter III was born in Leland, Mississippi on February 23, 1944 to John
and Edwina, but was raised in Beaumont, Texas. The senior Winter, a career Army officer
who sang, played saxophone and banjo, and was a fan of the big bands, encouraged
Johnny and his younger brother Edgar to pursue music. John's father had been a cotton
broker in Leland and after WWII attempted to take over the business, becoming the boss
at the storied Stovall Plantation, an important figure in early blues history.
Johnny was singing and playing the clarinet by five, but eventually quit clarinet when
an orthodontist advised against it due to his overbite. Three years later he added the
ukulele to his repertoire and then was given the baritone variety by his grandfather. By
1954 he and Edgar were appearing as a duo, singing barbershop quartet songs like "Ain't
She Sweet" and "Bye Bye Blackbird," and even auditioning for the nationally broadcasted
Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour. It was about this time that Winter's father offered
the opinion that there were only two people, Ukulele Ike and Arthur Godfrey, who had ever
amounted to anything on the diminutive stringed instrument, and that the guitar might
prove to be a better choice. The advice was heeded, especially after Winter realized that
the emerging rock 'n' roll music at the time was played on the guitar. Within the year, he
was learning note-for-note guitar solos off the records he bought by mowing lawns, hauling
garbage, and saving his lunch money. T-Bone Walker, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters,
Chuck Berry, and Carl Perkins were favorites with The Best of Muddy Waters being an
early purchase and the records of Robert Johnson inspiring him to play slide guitar. He
recalls shopping regularly at a record shop owned by Keith Ferguson's father years
before Ferguson became the bassist for the Fabulous Thunderbirds. Winter's first guitar
was his great-grandmother's "hundred-year old classical guitar." Later, his great-grandfather
bought him his first electric guitar, a Gibson ES-125, non-cutaway, with a single P-90 pickup.
There were not many white people in Beaumont in the 1950s as seriously into playing
and listening to the blues as Winter. One of the few was Joey Long (nee Longoria)
who was a little older, and the first white man Winter heard play the music. Like almost
all electric blues guitarists from Texas, he was profoundly influenced by T-Bone Walker.
Winter, on the other hand, while acknowledging his debt to the legendary electric blues
pioneer, also had a strong love for Chicago blues not always shared by his fellow musicians.
When Winter would hear blues guitar idols like Otis Rush push and vibrato their
strings, he would marvel at how it was done, not realizing at the time that it was as much
an expression of their inner soulfulness as the lighter gauge strings they were using. For
a while he accomplished the technique with a whammy bar. Ever open to whatever blues
caught his fancy, it was the expert string articulation of Clapton that would eventually
convince Winter around 1967 to become an acknowledged master of finger vibrato and bending.
In 1959, with Johnny on guitar and Edgar accompanying on piano, Johnny & The
Jammers promptly won a local talent contest sponsored by radio station KTRM. Their
prize consisted of a recording session, and they cut the single "School Day Blues" b/w
"You Know I Love You," ultimately released by Dart Records. It became a regional hit,
resulting in Winter being called to provide guitar on record dates supervised by local promoters
and producers. As was the custom in those days, the music he was playing was
what people wanted to hear-rock 'n' roll, R&B, and then soul music-not blues. All the
while he was compulsively woodshedding his chops and voraciously listening to all the
blues recordings he could find. A treasure trove resided at radio station KJET where DJ
and bluesman Clarence Garlow of the Bon Ton show befriended him, took his requests
on air, and let him hang at the station while also showing him guitar techniques. "I first
saw him at Jefferson Music Company where I worked as a guitar teacher," Winter
explains. "He walked in and I recognized his voice. His style was similar to T-Bone Walker.
On his show he also played a lot of his own records" laughs Winter. "I was about twelve
years old, and he was one of the first guitar players to use light gauge strings, and he
taught me how to use an unwound third. We jammed together a few times, too, including
once at my house that was great."
Winter cites Chet Atkins and Merle Travis as guitarists who really made him want to
play (and his impetus for using a thumbpick). He learned the rudiments of country fingerstyle
from Jefferson Music coworker Luther Naley and some jazz from Seymour Drugan,
the father of Dennis Drugan (the bass player for the Jammers). He briefly attended Lamar
University in Beaumont after high school, sneaking down to Louisiana on the weekends
to jam in the blues clubs. There and in Texas he was often the only white person in the
club, but felt welcome for the most part due to his obvious and sincere love for the music.
His perseverance and total immersion in the blues gained him access to the local
scene by 1963 where he got to jam with B.B. King in a momentous occasion. The following
year he took a pilgrimage to Chicago to join Dennis Drugan in the Gents where he
hoped to play blues, but instead ended up once again performing the popular music of
the day. While in the Windy City he met Michael Bloomfield at his club, the Fickle Pickle,
for what would become a solid friendship based on mutual admiration. Winter was back
in Texas a year later, however, and cut "Eternally" for the KRCO label, which leased it to
Atlantic Records, scoring a regional hit that allowed him to advance to the next leveltouring
and opening for rock acts like Jerry Lee Lewis and the Everly Brothers. In 1967
he made a fortuitous move to Houston, a hot bed for blues in the Lone Star State, and
convened a trio with bassist Tommy Shannon and drummer Uncle John "Red" Turner,
who in turn encouraged Winter to concentrate on performing the blues, knowing he was
mastering the style at a rapid pace. The band became a fixture at the Vulcan Gas
Company ballroom, later dubbed Armadillo World Headquarters, and Winter's reputation
soared on the wings of his impossibly fast, furious, and fluid solos. While in residency he
got to play with Freddie King and met Muddy Waters for the first time, with whom he would
form a lifelong friendship. In addition, responding to the creative rock experimentation
going on in the late 1960s, he also tried his hand at the psychedelic experience musically
and sartorially.

Take an in-depth look at the fiery blues stylings of Johnny Winter with this instructional book/CD pack. You'll learn the main licks from 12 songs, including:

TITLE - AUTHOR - ALBUM - YEAR

Bad Luck Situation - Johnny Winter - SAINTS & SINNERS - 1974
Be Careful With A Fool - Words & Music: B.B. King, Joe Bihari - 1957 - JOHNNY WINTER - 1969 
Bladie Mae - Johnny Winter - NOTHIN' BUT THE BLUES - 1977
Highway 61 Revisited - Words and Music: Bob Dylan - 1965 - SECOND WINTER - 1969
It Was Raining - Johnny Winter - NOTHIN' BUT THE BLUES - 1977
Leland Mississippi  - Johnny Winter - NOTHIN' BUT THE BLUES - 1977
Mean Town Blues - Words and Music: Johnny Winter - THE PROGRESSIVE BLUES EXPERIMENT - 1969
Rock And Roll Hoochie Koo - Words and Music: Rick Derringer - JOHNNY WINTER AND - 1970
Rock Me Baby - Words and Music: B.B. King, Joe Bihan - 1964 - STILL ALIVE AND WELL - 1973
Still Alive And Well - Words and Music: Rick Derringer - JOHNNY WINTER AND - 1970
Sweet Love & Evil Women - Johnny Winter - NOTHIN' BUT THE BLUES - 1977
TV Mama -  Johnny Winter - NOTHIN' BUT THE BLUES - 1977

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HALL JIM A Step-by-Step the Styles and Techniques of a Jazz Guitar Genius Signature Licks CD TABLATURE

HALL JIM, A Step-by-Step Breakdown of the Styles and Techniques of a Jazz Guitar Genius, Signature Licks.

SHEET MUSIC BOOK WITH CD & GUITAR TABLATURE.

LIBRO DI MUSICA JAZZ CON CD.

SPARTITI PER CHITARRA : 

ACCORDI, PENTAGRAMMA, TABLATURE. 

 


Series: Signature Licks Guitar
Softcover with CD - TAB
Author: Adam Perlmutter
Artist: Jim Hall

Discover the quiet elegance of one of jazz guitar's most renowned players with this Signature Licks book/CD pack. Each song chapter contains in-depth analysis and audio with slow demos. 80 pages

 

 

INTRODUCTION

Jim Hall (1930-) was steeped in classical music before he came to jazz. Hall attended the Cleveland Institute of Music, then moved to Los Angeles, California, where he studied nylon-string guitar with Vincente Gomez. While on the West Coast, he began to make a name for himself as a jazz guitarist, playing in the quintet of drummer Chico Hamilton, from 1955 to 1956, and in the trio of reed player Jimmy Giuffre, from 1956-1959. He also worked with modern improvisers such as pianist John Lewis and alto saxophonist Lee Konitz, and in 1960 toured South America (where he was exposed to bossa nova) with singer Ella Fitzgerald.

Around the same time, Hall moved to New York City, where through several intense collaborations, he was established as one of the world's most sophisticated jazz guitarists. From 1961 to 1962, he was a member of the tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins's great quartet, with which he recorded the seminal album The Bridge. In the '60s Hall coled a quartet with trumpeter Art Farmer; he also recorded with the quartet of alto saxophonist Paul Desmond and found ideal duet partners in pianist Bill Evans and bassist Ron Carter. With Evans, Hall recorded two albums, Undercurrent (1962) and Intermodulation (1966), two of the most intimate and beautiful recordings in all of jazz. (From Intermodulation, see the transcription of "My Man's Gone Now," on page 34.) It was while performing in these fertile contexts that Hall found his own voice, an understated modern style characterized by melodic finesse, harmonic sophistication, and structural awareness-a logical extension of the language developed by such jazz-guitar pioneers as Charlie Christian, Wes Montgomery, and Django Reinhardt. This approach has been of profound influence to countless modern guitarists, including Hall's student Bill Frisell, who sounds radically different than Hall, but has a strikingly similar guitar conception. Hall's approach is best witnessed on the excellent albums he has recorded under his own name, including Concierto (1975), Jim Hall Live! (1976), and All Across the City (1989), transcriptions from all of which can be found on the following pages.

Besides being one of jazz's premier guitarists, Hall is a celebrated arranger and composer. In 1997, he won the New York Jazz Critics Circle Award for Best Jazz Composer/Arranger; his composition for jazz quartet and string quartet, "Quartet Plus Four," earned the Jazzpar Prize in Denmark, and his works for string, brass, and vocal ensembles can be heard on the albums Textures (1997) and By Arrangement (1998). In 2004, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra debuted Hall's Peace Movement, a concerto for guitar and orchestra, dedicated to the cause of international harmony. That same year, for all his accomplishments as a composer, arranger, and performer, Hall was named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts.

One of Hall's most recent projects, Hemispheres, was recorded with Bill Frisell and features one disc of duets and a second disc that adds the rhythm section of bassist Scott Colley and drummer Joey Baron. The album is available at Hall's Web site where a fan can catch of glimpse of what goes into the creation of the guitarist's recent projects. Meanwhile, when not composing or working with his own trio, Hall-ever the adventurous artist-has been playing with various modern improvisers, including saxophonists Joe Lovano and Greg Osby, and guitarist Pat Metheny. For now in the sixth decade of his career, Hall remains as vital a musician as ever.

DISCOGRAPHY

The selections on the accompanying CD are based on the following recordings:

ALL ACROSS THE CITY-Concord Jazz: "Big Blues"

ALONE TOGETHER-Milestone: "Autumn Leaves," "St. Thomas-

BALLAD ESSENTlAL-Concord Jazz: "Prelude to a Kiss"

CONCIERTO-CTI: "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To"
(continua)


(All Of A Sudden) My Heart Sings - HAROLD ROME - 1941
Angel Eyes - MATT DENNIS - 1946
Autumn Leaves - JOSEPH KOSMA - 1947
Big Blues - JAMES S. HALL - 1978
My Man's Gone Now - GEORGE GERSHWIN - 1935
Prelude To A Kiss - DUKE ELLINGTON - 1938
St. Thomas - SONNY ROLLINS - 1963
Scrapple From The Apple - CHARLIE PARKER - 1957
Tangerine - VICTOR SCHERTZINGER - 1942
Things Ain't What They Used To Be - MERCER ELLINGTON - 1942 
Without A Song - VINCENT YOUMANS - 1929
You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To - COLE PORTER - 1942

 

ANGEL EYES
(Jim Hall Live!, 1976)
Words by Earl Brent
Music by Matt Dennis
Figure 3-lntro, Head, and Solo (Chorus 1)
While many of Jim Hall's studio recordings show the guitarist to be thoughtful and
well-mannered, in concert he has been known to play with abandon. This side of Hall can
be heard on Jim Hall Live!, one of his finest live recordings, taken from a series of dates
in 1975 at Toronto's Bourbon Street. The recording finds Hall in top form, paired with
bassist Don Thompson and drummer Terry Clarke.
One of the highlights of the album is a Latin-tinged take of the jazz standard "Angel
Eyes," which was originally a 32-bar AABA song. Hall & Co. double the tune's harmonic
rhythm, so that the form is now 64 bars in length. (A chord that originally occupied two
beats now gets four beats, an entire bar.) Hall starts things off by moving a barred Am7
shape in parallel fashion against the open A string, resulting in some interesting polychordal
harmony, such as the m/A chord (voiced A-A~-m-F, low to high) on beat 1 of bar
2 and the B/A (A-F~-B-m) on beat 1 of bar 4. He also throws various dominant and
diminished chord voicings into the mix, including the partial E7#9 (A~/m-D-G) in the last
part of bar 2 and mo (A~-D-F) on beat 1 of bar 6.
After closing out the intro with the same Am7 chord with which he started, Hall
takes the head (beginning at bar 17). He sticks pretty close to the original melody, adding
his own idiosyncratic touches here and there. One such Hall-ism involves placing an
octave-based idea at the end of a phrase-a striking, broken-octave fill appears in bars
23-24; a variation of this, in bar 39; and, in bar 72, a semi-chromatic descending line
played in fully voiced octaves. Throughout, there's a strong blues feel, especially in bar
32's fill, which comes from the A minor pentatonic scale (A-C-D-E-G), albeit unpredictably
ordered. A subtler touch involves ending certain phrases with a 12th-fret harmonic
on string 5 (see bars 30, 46, and 78), which lends a nice timbral contrast to the fretted
notes.
Beginning in bar 49, Hall uses a neat trick that effectively separates the bridge
from the A-section: while holding selected melody notes (upstemmed), he adds chord
stabs (downstemmed), not unlike a pianist would do with two hands. Also, Hall ventures
a little farther from the melody in this section-in bar 53, check out the improvised, angular
line that begins with a major 7th (B~to A) leap. These unique details give the listener
a taste of what's to come in Hall's excellent solo.
In the first A-section of his first chorus, Hall introduces an A minor pentatonic idea,
and then sees it through various permutations. He keeps it simple here; the only noticeable
jazzy melodic content is the Am11 arpeggio (A-C-E-G-B-D) in bars 108-109.
Throughout, Hall interjects some of the same chord voicings as found in the intro, most
often the E7=9chord. At the same time, he uses space wisely; for example, see the rests
in bars 107-108 and 116-117.
Hall steps out melodically in the bridge of the first chorus. In bars 122-123, he
plays a 6th-based motif that reappears later in the solo, and in bars 125-127, he smoothly
hits a variety of interesting note choices: the 7 (F#) on the Gm7 chord (the absence of
a pianist gives Hall harmonic leeway), the #9 (E~/m) on C7, and the #11 (B) on Fmaj7.
Beginning in bar 128, Hall plays a fleetingly-fingered line involving chromatic lower-neighbor
tones. This leads directly into a witty reference to Duke Ellington's "Raincheck" in bars
129-131. Quotation is an indispensable improvisational tool, and Hall masterfully adjusts
the melodic contour of "Raincheck" to suit the changes at hand, sailing with ease into the
b7 (A) of the B7 chord and the 3rd (G#) of the Emaj7 chord.

 

 

THINGS AIN'T WHAT THEY USED TO BE (Jazz Guitar: Jim Hall Trio, 1957)
By Mercer Ellington
Figure 15-Head and Solo
While Jim Hall's style is strikingly modern, it is deeply rooted in the traditional
sound of the blues. This is especially apparent in Hall's interpretation of the Mercer
Ellington classic "Things Ain't What They Used to Be," from his 1957 debut album, Jazz
Guitar: Jim Hall Trio, on which "Tangerine" (see page 56) also appears.
"Things Ain't What They Used to Be" is based on a 12-bar blues in m major,
played here with a neat, overlapping pair of ii-Vs in bars 8-11 (F7-m7-Bm7-Ab7-m7).
Hall kicks things off by playing the head twice, the first time accompanied by bassist Red
Mitchell. The guitarist basically plays the melody as it was originally written but adds some
bluesy, grace-note flourishes: in the m7 bars, a whole-step slide, from B to the melody
note F; and on the double stops, a half-step approach tone to each lower note.
As Hall restates the head, beginning in bar 13, pianist Carl Perkins joins in on the
proceedings; notice the chromatically ascending 7~9 chords that Perkins substitutes in
bars 21 and 22. Hall starts his reiteration of the head the same way he originally played
it, but at the end of bar 20, he raises the intensity by playing the melody up an octave.
Then, beginning in bar 23, he sets up his three-chorus solo with a triplet-based line that
comes mainly from the m minor pentatonic scale (m-Fb-Gb-Ab-Cb).
In the first chorus, Hall improvises variations on the original melody. In bars 29
and 30, he plays major 3rd-based double stops from the m blues scale (m-Fb-Gb-Abb-
Ab-Cb), then, in bar 31, toys with both the b3rd(HIE) and 3rd (F) of the m7 chord using
single notes. In bar 35, over the m7-Bb7 change, Hall plays a series of dyads that actually
imply the progression m7-GI>-Gbm, with the 3rd (m and Bbbin the bass on the latter
two). Note the contrary motion between the lower and higher voices of the first two
chords.
Beginning at the end of his first chorus and extending through the first several
bars of his second, Hall has a conversation with himself, playing phrases that start and
stop on the first string's fourth-fret Ab, and are answered by phrases that start and stop a
perfect 5th lower, on the third string's sixth-fret m. In bars 40-43, Hall plays the note Eb
at two different positions-string 2, fret 4 and string 3, fret 8-requiring a large fret-hand
stretch, but the nice contrast in timbre is worth the effort. Hall begins to conclude his second
chorus in bar 44 with a predominantly pentatonic phrase.
In his third and final chorus, Hall makes the most out of a few simple phrases, the
first of which is stated in the first half of bar 49. Similar to one found in his first chorus, this
bluesy, ascending phrase contains both the b3 and 3, and is carried throughout the first
several bars. Bar 52 contains an interesting move: Hall slides, via a half step, into a dyad
(Cb-Eb)that implies a m9 chord (m-F-Ab-Cb-Eb), then plays a descending chromatic line
(Ab-Abb-Gb-F) that sets up a m9 chord partial (F-Cb-Eb). First appearing on beat 2 of bar
53, an eighth-note triplet line (Fb-m-B) is played (except for a break in bar 54) until the
beginning of bar 56, and answered in bar 57 by a time-honored, jazz-blues phrase.
Hall thinks more harmonically as he ends his solo, arpeggiating m (m-F-Ab) and
Gb (Gb-Bb-m) triads in bar 59, approaching each 3rd with a half-step grace note. Then,
on beats 1 and 2 of the final bar, Hall plays double stops, Ab-m and G-m, that imply mm7
(Bb-m-F-Ab) and Eb7 (Eb-G-Bb-m) chords, respectively, delaying the final ii-V
(Ebm7-Ab7) change by two beats.

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