If there was one improviser/composer that was hugely influential to modern fusion guitar it has to be John Coltrane. Coltrane’s sax lines, ideas and sense of rhythm just sit really well with the guitar. The quartal harmonic concepts, pentatonic cells through the changes and high velocity evoke clear inspirational lines for the creative guitar improviser and composer alike.
Today, we will take from Coltrane’s jazz timed 8th notes and double time these into semiquaver 16th note jazz fusion lines.
John Coltrane Jazz Fusion Double Timed Guitar Lick No1:
Typical Coltrane line but doubled in time [16ths/Semiquavers]
John Coltrane Jazz Fusion Double Timed Guitar Lick No2:
Incorporating an Intervallic design
John Coltrane Jazz Fusion Double Timed Guitar Lick No3:
Mixing Bebop chromaticism and outside quality to the changes
John Coltrane Jazz Fusion Double Timed Guitar Lick No4:
Side Stepping over a single chord of A minor 7th. Very chromatic and resulting in a very typical/standard “Jazz Fusion” Line.
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Clifford Martin is a trained classical musician and composer. His 1st study being piano and composition and a deep study into the meticulous world of modern music theory. He also studied jazz piano and jazz drums privately.
Clifford later came back to the guitar and studied in the jazz fusion style of John McLaughlin and Al di Meola. It was at this point that he put all of his years of learning together into one musical form
This website is a sort of cataloging of ideas and musical concepts for exploitation and development in the arts of musical composition and improvisation. What started out as a jazz improvisation site has grown into a full blown, harmony, timbre, pitch and rhythm library. Peace, Enjoy!
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