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Upper Structures, Synonyms & Slash Voicings for Jazz Guitar

Upper Structures, Synonyms & Slash Voicings for Jazz Guitar

Chord & Single Line Soloing Concepts For Jazz Guitarists

by Ged Brockie
Paperback
Publication Date: 05/08/2021

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A JAZZ GUITAR BOOK FOR GUITARISTS LOOKING TO UNDERSTAND THE POWER OF UPPER VOICINGSAt over three hundred and sixty pages, Upper Structures, Synonyms & Slash Voicings For Jazz Guitar takes a wide ranging and in-depth look at the subject of upper voicings and their application with respect to the guitar.




Slash voicings and synonyms are also cover in great detail with numerous examples showing how these musical concepts connect and work together.

From individual examples both played and explained in text and narration, to lick ideas and then full blown solos, this book covers a huge amount of material that will help you understand how upper structures work.




WHAT LEVEL OF GUITAR PLAYER SHOULD CONSIDER THIS BOOK?This book is aimed at experienced guitar players and will act as a practical reference and technical guide for players, teachers, educationalists and music conservatoires.




With hundreds of musical examples, chord progressions, music and chord diagrams, lick ideas and solo examples as well as in depth theoretical explanation, this book is a must for every aspiring jazz and contemporary guitarist.




SECTION ONE - FOUR CHAPTERS INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING TOPICS: Stacking Chords, Chord formulae, Chord extension & alteration, Triads as upper structures, Pseudo scales, Inferring altered dominants, Generating chords across the neck, Chord & line superimposition, Voice leading, Vagrant harmony, Inferring altered dominants, Single line solo ideas, Tri-tones & flat five concepts, Chromatic movement, Deconstructing altered dominants, Synonyms, Movable solo lines, Cascading chords, Motif development, Sidestep line movement.




SECTION TWO: A three chapter lick library of 70 original lick ideas that demonstrate each upper structure voicing category. All licks are offered in mp3 format as well as including narration from the author on the points of interest and technical challenges of the line.




Each lick is provided in musical and TAB notation. Every chord type includes arpeggio patterns across the fretboard with large format easy to view chords included with each lick example.




SECTION THREE: Three chapters offering original jazz guitar solo examples over three well known jazz standard progressions. Full analysis from a comparative, melodic and harmonic viewpoint is included. Solos are fully notated in music and TAB with chords provided in large easy to view format.




SUPPORTING DOWNLOADOver one and a half hours of mp3 files included. Section 1 music examples, Section 2 demonstration licks with author's technical narration and Section 3 which includes complete solo demonstrations as well as a wide range of backing tracks for you to practice over the three included sequences. There are one hundred and sixty nine mp3 files in total.
ISBN:
9781916302495
9781916302495
Category:
String instruments
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
05-08-2021
Publisher:
Guitar & Music Online Learning Ltd.
Pages:
364
Dimensions (mm):
297x210x19mm
Weight:
0.87kg

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