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Hi Guys,
Today, a short John Coltrane/McCoy Tyner Style unison jazz quartal guitar line/ jazz head/riff.
This line starts with an anacrusis/upbeat. From here we employ a short pentatonic scale phrase that leads to quartal harmony that resolves down a minor 3rd interval.
I am starting this on an upstroke with strict alternate picking guitar technique.
The key to the first phrase is that it plays upon this “Motif” as it gets imitated up the octaves:
From here, we create contrast by descending with a pentatonic scale and push hard on a sextuplets feel for rhythmic colour and drive.
To complete the first part of this phrase, we round it off with two chords of Ab and G9
We, will now ascend and frame some interesting intervallic sounds: Opening with 5ths to 4ths with chromatic movement:
Finally, we will play the motif up a semitone one more time and ascend up in semitones to complete the phrase:
FULL EXERCISE:
Alternate Picking starting on an “Upstroke”
IN CONCLUSION
This was just a brief look at what can be done with this modal pentatonic quartal jazz style.
It’s a style very well suited to the guitar in terms of fretting and picking and it’s amazing what interesting music you can easily make from this even just by means of imitation.
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