altered scale john mclaughlin guitar secrets – modern music theory and application

Video Lesson/Performance of lick:

Music/Tab. The chord sequence is Dm7b5 G7″Altered” resolving to C major 7th

John Mclaughlin Jazz fusion altered scale guitar lick

The key to joining all of this together fluently is to break each four note grouping into tetrachords, learning a group at a time.

Tetrachords: Breaking the improvised line down into easy to learn chunks

VARIATION With an A flat Pentatonic shape replacing A flat minor/Major Arpeggio for the flat 5 substitution.

John Mclaughlin Jazz fusion altered scale guitar lick “Variation”.

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In this jazz/fusion example we have,

Dm7 to G7altered to Em7flat5 to A13 flat 9 to D+maj7#11.

If you play through the TAB/MUSIC below the video you will find the way that I play through to be very interesting.

Also, I stick to the principle of our other lesson by employing tetrachords and strict alternate picking.

John Mclaughlin lesson” Playing through altered chord changes,

Music Tab for altered jazz fusion harmony

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Author: Clifford Martin Musical Artist: Guitar Gti

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!