Modern Jazz Concepts For Guitar Pdf

[Leanne Wittlin]

PopularYouTube teacher Jens Larsen teaches you how to apply triads, arpeggios and scales to create the sounds of contemporary jazz guitar. This creative method allows you to develop the knowledge you already have, using basic major and minor scales in a new way to create fresh sounds. This book contains a wealth of knowledge and provides a clear, easy to follow method for jazz guitar fans who want to access the modern style of playing.

In chapter 2, approach notes are introduced to add spice to our melodic lines. Jens discusses Barry Harris and Pat Metheny approaches to these chromatic enclosures. The chapter ends with practice suggestions that are helpful for those looking to explore this topic further.

In chapter 3, Jens shows how to use the harmonic minor scale on the V chord. There are a number of nice lines with interesting leaps melodically. Jens suggests the arpeggios he likes which helps filter the choices we encounter with this scale.

In chapter 4, Jens explores the altered scale on dominant chords. To create jazzier sounds, he selects some arpeggios that are useful to outline the tensions on the dominant chord. He shows how to use and resolves these more dissonant lines in a II-V-I setting.

Chapter 5 goes deeper into colour and tension with the application of the diminished scale on the dominant 7th chord. Jens suggests different triad pairs that are effective for creating lines and give good ideas for practicing this scale.

In the final chapter, all the concepts are combined in a 3 chorus blues solo. Each idea is also analysed to help us understand the construction. This is great especially when we want to create our own ideas using the same concepts.

In this focused three-part Master Class, you'll learn how to craft your own modern jazz sound using advanced theory and Ben's signature legato technique. You'll leave this class with a brand-new set of tools that you can blend into your own unique style.

This section will introduce you to advanced altered harmony and how to play "outside". These concepts will help you become a better storytelling improviser by introducing tension and release into your lines. Ben will also teach you how to use harmonic superimposition by implying chord changes over an existing set of chords.

In Part III. you'll study a collection of songs and studies Ben wrote just for this Master Class. These compositions combine elements of everything we've covered so far and are a great way to start putting the previous lessons into a musical context.

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Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.[1][2][3][4][5][6] Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation.

As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. However, jazz did not begin as a single musical tradition in New Orleans or elsewhere.[7] In the 1930s, arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, Kansas City jazz (a hard-swinging, bluesy, improvisational style), and gypsy jazz (a style that emphasized musette waltzes) were the prominent styles. Bebop emerged in the 1940s, shifting jazz from danceable popular music toward a more challenging "musician's music" which was played at faster tempos and used more chord-based improvisation. Cool jazz developed near the end of the 1940s, introducing calmer, smoother sounds and long, linear melodic lines.[8]

The mid-1950s saw the emergence of hard bop, which introduced influences from rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues to small groups and particularly to saxophone and piano. Modal jazz developed in the late 1950s, using the mode, or musical scale, as the basis of musical structure and improvisation, as did free jazz, which explored playing without regular meter, beat and formal structures. Jazz-rock fusion appeared in the late 1960s and early 1970s, combining jazz improvisation with rock music's rhythms, electric instruments, and highly amplified stage sound. In the early 1980s, a commercial form of jazz fusion called smooth jazz became successful, garnering significant radio airplay. Other styles and genres abound in the 21st century, such as Latin and Afro-Cuban jazz.

The origin of the word jazz has resulted in considerable research, and its history is well documented. It is believed to be related to jasm, a slang term dating back to 1860 meaning 'pep, energy'.[9][10] The earliest written record of the word is in a 1912 article in the Los Angeles Times in which a minor league baseball pitcher described a pitch which he called a 'jazz ball' "because it wobbles and you simply can't do anything with it".[9][10]

The use of the word in a musical context was documented as early as 1915 in the Chicago Daily Tribune.[10][11] Its first documented use in a musical context in New Orleans was in a November 14, 1916, Times-Picayune article about "jas bands".[12] In an interview with National Public Radio, musician Eubie Blake offered his recollections of the slang connotations of the term, saying: "When Broadway picked it up, they called it 'J-A-Z-Z'. It wasn't called that. It was spelled 'J-A-S-S'. That was dirty, and if you knew what it was, you wouldn't say it in front of ladies."[13] The American Dialect Society named it the Word of the 20th Century.[14]

Jazz is difficult to define because it encompasses a wide range of music spanning a period of over 100 years, from ragtime to rock-infused fusion. Attempts have been made to define jazz from the perspective of other musical traditions, such as European music history or African music. But critic Joachim-Ernst Berendt argues that its terms of reference and its definition should be broader,[15] defining jazz as a "form of art music which originated in the United States through the confrontation of the Negro with European music"[16] and arguing that it differs from European music in that jazz has a "special relationship to time defined as 'swing'". Jazz involves "a spontaneity and vitality of musical production in which improvisation plays a role" and contains a "sonority and manner of phrasing which mirror the individuality of the performing jazz musician".[15]

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