Month: May 2020

Messiaen Mode 4 Improvisation Concepts for jazz/20c improvisation

Posted on by Modern Music Theory

Messiaen’s 4th mode: Concepts for this blog are taken from the excellent:

“Dick de Graaf – Beyond Borders. Broadening the Artistic Palette of (Composing) Improvisers in Jazz”.

CLICK HERE Research Catalogue Website

Messiaen mode 4 one octave

Messiaen Mode 4 of limited transposition Scale
La technique de mon langage musical mode 4

Messiaen mode 4 Improvisation Concept 1

Messiaen Mode 4 Music Lesson
Messiaen mode 4 Improvisation Concept 1

Messiaen mode 4 Improvisation Concept 2

Messiaen mode 4 Improvisation Concept 4

Messiaen mode 4 Improvisation Concept 3

Messiaen mode 4 Improvisation Concepts lessons

Messiaen mode 4 Improvisation Concept 4

Messiaen mode 4 Improvisation Concept 4

Messiaen mode 4 Improvisation Line Development #1

4th Mode Messiaen improv jazz

VARIATION:

mode 4 messiaen jazz improvisation lick
Mode 4 Improvised line extension jazz fusion guitar

Messiaen mode 4 Improvisation Line Development #2

Messiaen 4ths mode of limited transposition

VARIATION:

Messiaen Mode 4 Classicalimprovisation

Messiaen’s Book La technique de mon langage musical “Techniques of my musical language” treatise.

 La technique de mon langage musical ("The Technique of my Musical Language")

Thanks for viewing this post, I hope it was interesting and useful, if so then Please Subscribe to Us on Youtube!

yt_logo_rgb_light CLICK SUBSCRIBE!

Alternate Picking with cycle 4ths chords guitar lesson

Posted on by Modern Music Theory

your help matters! So,if you have a youtube account then Please subscribe to us now!

yt_logo_rgb_light CLICK SUBSCRIBE!

Today we look at employing alternate picking with chords on the guitar.

The alternate picking group of 4 semiquavers [16ths] notes start with an upstroke. “Up Down Up Down”. This little lick/motif joins the two chords together and creates a compositional movement.

alternate picking guitar chords scale 4ths cycle

Here is the descending music notation and tab. [Chords and alternate picking]

alternate picking guitar chords scale descending

Here is the ascending music notation and tab.

ascending alternate picking guitar chords scale

Descending cycle of 4ths chord sequence [for alternate picking scales with chords].

CYCLE OF 4THA ALTERNATE PICKING SEQUENCE

Ascending cycle of 4ths chord sequence [for alternate picking scales with chords].

Cycle of 4ths alternate picking guitar sequence

Thanks for viewing this post, I hope it was interesting and useful, if so then please subscribe to us on youtube!

yt_logo_rgb_light CLICK SUBSCRIBE!

Chromatic Displacement?

Posted on by Modern Music Theory 
As an antidote to enclosure here we look at some easy developing chromatic ideas for improvisation.

These ideas follow a basic 4 note D chromatic scale to an F arpeggio. They then move into a variation.

Idea 1

chromatic displacement for jazz improvisation

Idea 2

chromatic displacement for jazz improvisation

Idea 3

chromatic displacement for jazz improvisation

Idea 4

chromatic displacement for jazz improvisation
chromatic displacement for jazz improvisation

Thanks for viewing this post, I hope it was interesting and useful, if so then Please Subscribe to us on Youtube!

yt_logo_rgb_light CLICK SUBSCRIBE!