Jazz Improvisation for Guitar: A Harmonic Approach

✍ Scribed by Garrison Fewell

• Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 115
• Edition: Pap/Com
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

(Berklee Guide). The purpose of this book is to explore the relationship between jazz harmony and improvisation by studying the vertical structures of chords and their function in a progression, and the horizontal or linear application of harmony to melodic improvisation. Each topic is accompanied by musical examples that are designed to help you hear the connection between harmony and melody and to develop a more melodic and creative way of thinking about improvising over chord progressions. The price of this book includes access to audio demos online, for download or streaming, using the unique code in each edition. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Diatonic Substitution and Upper-Structure Triads
Chapter 2 - Diatonic Substitution: 7th Chord Arpeggios
Chapter 3 - Parallel Modes and Diatonic Substitution
Chapter 4 - Secondary Dominants
Chapter 5 - Improvising over Minor Chords
Chapter 6 - Common Uses of the Melodic-Minor Scale
Chapter 7 - ♭II7 and V7(alt) Chords
Chapter 8 - Diminished 7th Chords
Chapter 9 - The Symmetrical Diminished Scale
Chapter 10 - The Four Tonic System
Chapter 11 - Melodic Counterpoint
Chapter 12 - Building a Solo: Chromatic Motion and Compound Lines
Author’s Note
About the Author