Lessons from Jazz/World to 20 Century Classical Music Harmony Rhythm and Theory
Category: Jazz fusion guitar music theory lessons, guitar technique and improvisation.
How to improvise over altered dominant chords. How to employ chromatic jazz and fusion harmony. Apply twentieth century classical composition techniques to modern jazz music and improv. How to exploit modes of the major. minor and diminished scales. Lesson in alternate picking guitar techniques as used by John Mclaughlin and Al di Meola. How to do metal rock and all styles of alternate picking on the guitar. Plectrum pick technique for electric and acoustic guitarists. alternate guitar style of picking lessons.
Ivor Mairants Perfect Pick Technique for Guitar Book- A Method of Playing Steel-strung Guitar Devised to Result in a Flawless Basic Right Hand Technique Without Limitations.
PAGE 19: From Ivor Mairants Book called: “Perfect Pick Technique”
Ivor Mairants Perfect Pick Technique for Guitar Book- A Method of Playing Steel-strung Guitar Devised to Result in a Flawless Basic Right Hand Technique Without Limitations.
The simple natural movement as the guitar plectrum picks each string as it comes. This makes the picking hand naturally aligned with the string it wishes to pluck.
Alternate Picking Guitar Technique Lesson
FROM THE BOOK:
Ivor Mairants Perfect Pick Technique for Guitar Book- A Method of Playing Steel-strung Guitar Devised to Result in a Flawless Basic Right Hand Technique Without Limitations.
ONE MORE CONSIDERATION:
When crossing the strings with Alternate Picking it is either: Pluck “Up” skip over pluck down.
Alternate Picking Crossing the Strings Diagram
Or: Pluck “Down” skip over pluck up.
Alternate Picking Crossing the Strings Diagram
ABOUT IVOR MAIRANTS BOOK:
“Perfect Pick Technique for Guitar Book- A Method of Playing Steel-strung Guitar Devised to Result in a Flawless Basic Right Hand Technique Without Limitations”.
Ivor Mairants Perfect Pick Technique for Guitar Book- A Method of Playing Steel-strung Guitar Devised to Result in a Flawless Basic Right Hand Technique Without Limitations.
Ivor Mairants Perfect Pick Technique for Guitar Book- A Method of Playing Steel-strung Guitar Devised to Result in a Flawless Basic Right Hand Technique Without Limitations.
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John Coltrane Jazz Fusion Guitar Double Timed Licks Lesson Examples: The Subject of this Blog!
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 Licks Example 1: 16th’s Double Timed
John Coltrane Jazz Fusion Double Timed Guitar Lick No2:
Incorporating an Intervallic design
John Coltrane Jazz Fusion Guitar Double Timed Licks Lesson Examples: Intervallic improvising
John Coltrane Jazz Fusion Double Timed Guitar Lick No3:
Mixing Bebop chromaticism and outside quality to the changes
John Coltrane Jazz Fusion Guitar Double Timed Licks Lesson Examples: “Outside” Chromatic line
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.
John Coltrane Jazz Fusion Guitar Double Timed Licks Lesson Examples: Sidestepping improvising
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