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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.
How I write atonal music at the piano
In the video above I look at how I write 20th century classical atonal music at the piano. Although this video touches on the basics it does point out the essential compositional elements and emotional make up needed for successful atonal compositions. Regardless of the atonal style which could be, 12 tone serial music, Messiaen modes or Boulez atonality, for the composer/writer the building blocks and perception remain the same.
McCoy Tyner Jazz Piano Lick For Guitar
This lick requires a bit of patience because the fingering is quite finickety due to the un- guitarist nature of the quartal set up, pentatonics and the nature of the intervals and their positioning on the guitar fingerboard.
McCoy Tyner Piano Lick employing alternate guitar picking for rhythmic fluency.
Chords for the lick: 1st Part.
Guitar Chord Shape for 1st part
Chords for the lick: 2nd Part.
Chord Shape for 2nd Part.
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