Download or read book Joe Diorio Giant Steps written by Joe Diorio and published by Warner Bros. Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the legendary Joe Diorio takes you through John Coltrane's classic (and very challenging) improvisation vehicle Giant Steps." This in-depth study includes 17 single-note solos, II-V patterns, substitution principles for both comping and soloing, and eight complete chord-melody solos utilizing a variety of harmonization techniques."
Download or read book Fusion Guitar written by Joe Diorio and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joe Diorio constructs 16 modern and ultra-modern jazz guitar solos over eight classic jazz chord progressions. Each solo is jammed full of inventive licks and patterns to use as building blocks and jumping-off points for creating dynamic jazz guitar solos. Comping patterns and chord voicings are included.
Download or read book Jazz Blues Styles written by Joe Diorio and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jazz Blues Styles presents guitar solos in the styles of Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk, Sonny Rollins, and other jazz blues greats. Within the context of the blues, this book teaches: styles of jazz blues; jazz ideas, phrases, and licks; jazz syncopation, the rhythmic language of jazz; jazz phrasing, the breath of jazz; how to use the triplet, altered chords, and slash chords; how to reharmonize the blues; a new innovative vocabulary of jazz chord sequences; how to usefragments of the chords to outline the harmony and create interesting new sounds; and how to play walking bass lines with chords. Joe Diorio's Right Brain Guitarist(R) approach helps to direct your playing with your intuitive sense asopposed to your logical sense. The accompanying audio download available online will help convey the subtle nuances of the music
Download or read book Jazz Structures for the New Millennium written by Joe Diorio and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joe Diorio is an accomplished guitarist and composer as well as a respected music educator. In this book he combines his skills to present innovative intervallic designs for the guitar. Written in standard notation and tab, these linear, often 12-tone flavored studies reflect Diorio's jazz roots and compositional mastery. Due to the harmonic ambiguity of these lines, the author recommends an experimental approach in applying these examples in various melodic and harmonic settings. the companion stereo CD features Diorio's performance of each of the 96 studies in the book.
Download or read book Quartal Harmony and Voicings for Guitar written by Tom Floyd and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a study and breakdown of "harmony in 4ths". The introduction of quartal harmony in modern jazz began in the 1960's. Compositions by Miles Davis and John Coltrane such as "Impressions" and "So What" showcased chord voicings derived from quartal harmony. The purpose of this book is to show guitarists how to function in an area of harmony mostly dominated by keyboard players. Common uses of quartal harmony are demonstrated and analyzed. Exercises and compositions in the style of Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock and others are included. Includes access to online audio which contains demonstrations of all exercises.
Download or read book Repository of Scales and Melodic Patterns written by Yusef Lateef and published by . This book was released on with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Orleans funk guitar written by Shane Theriot and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Shane discusses and demonstrates all the stylistic elements that set the music of New Orleans apart. Topics include funk rhythms, muting and 16th-note grooves, the clave, melodic phrases, authentic second line" grooves, and Cajun and Zydeco styles. All the music is demonstrated on the included recording featuring Shane and a group of premier New Orleans musicians."
Download or read book Ten Miles Past Normal written by Frances O'Roark Dowell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bestselling author Dowell comes a "funny and winning" ("Kirkus Reviews")tale of one teen's quest for normalcy--and the much more exciting detours shetakes along the way.
Download or read book The Herb Ellis Jazz Guitar Method written by Herb Ellis and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 1996-03 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Herb Ellis Jazz Guitar Method is designed to take the mystery out of playing jazz guitar. Each book in the method is based on one of the three pivotal chord progressions in the jazz guitarist's repertoire. Herb teaches single-note improvisation through a system of simple shapes" that are derived from chord fingerings."
Download or read book Larry Coryell s Power Jazz Guitar written by Larry Coryell and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2002 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book). More than a method or exercise book, this guide challenges jazz guitarists to increase originality in their thinking and playing. Master player Larry Coryell takes readers deep inside the music to make connections between ideas and the guitar fretboard, helping them unlock their own creativity. This book/CD set builds logically from basic ideas to more advanced techniques, which Coryell explains in fine detail. He highlights musical ways to understand complex jazz concepts and presents his unique approach to improvisation by providing exciting new ways to play scales, intervals, arpeggios, melody and chords. Emphasizing group interaction and solos that sizzle, Coryell taps his decades of experience as a performer to offer insights into inventive, powerful ensemble playing. "This book should open the door to a better understanding in our quest for advanced guitar playing." Al DiMeola
Download or read book Contemporary Chord Khancepts written by Steve Khan and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Chord Khancepts presents information for guitarists of all styles-from Rock, Latin, and Funk to Country, Jazz, and Alternative. Steve shares his approach to chord construction, an area he has become known for on guitar. In this book, he has taken a complex subject and broken it down into simple building blocks and small study units. You will learn to extend your sense of harmony by the superimposition of chord forms which are familiar, as well as a world of new ones. Your ability to express yourself and create textures and musical moods will improve immediately. The text is accompanied by two CD's full of performed examples, play-along tracks, and five completely new compositions by Steve only available in this package. For guitarists, the Khancepts in this book will serve as an unlimited source of reference materials and ideas for as long as you enjoy playing the instrument. Book jacket.
Download or read book 1 000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die written by Tom Moon and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2008-08-28 with total page 1026 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to music provides recommendations on one thousand recordings that represent the best in such genres as classical, jazz, rock, pop, blues, country, folk, musicals, hip-hop, and opera, with listening notes, commentary, and anecdotes about performers.
Download or read book Joe Pass Guitar Style written by Joe Pass and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the internationally acclaimed Joe Pass guitar method in which Joe displays his mastery of the jazz guitar. Part One/Harmony, is divided into five sections on chord construction, embellishment, substitution, connection, and symmetric chords. Part Two/Melody, is divided into twelve sections, including chord scales, altered scales, ear training, whole tone scales, chord resolutions, improvising, blues, minor blues, modern blues, rhythm changes, 3/4 blues, and includes a transcribed solo recorded by Joe on his album for Django.
Download or read book Ted Greene Jazz Guitar Single Note Soloing Vol 1 written by Ted Greene and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 1985-03 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book that clearly explains the principles of jazz soloing. Logically organized, with hundreds of musical examples, this method is the result of many years of Ted's teaching and research.
Download or read book Pentatonic Khancepts written by Steve Khan and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Steve takes a potentially very complex subject -- the creation of new, different, and creative melodies -- and shows how using two very simple and very guitaristic pentatonic scales, you can unleash an inexhaustible supply of new colors and ideas. A recording containing most of the music examples, plus numerous play-along tracks is included. This is a must-have for any serious guitarist!
Download or read book Giant Steps written by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and published by . This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An autobiography of the basketball legend describing his journey from Harlem to UCLA to the NBA.
Download or read book Symmetric Solutions written by Bruce Saunders and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a similar format to his other Mel Bay Publications, in Symmetric Solutions: The Whole Tone Workbook author Bruce Saunders uses exercises, etudes and chord progressions from jazz standards to explore the sound of the whole-tone scale, the augmented scale and drop-2, drop-3 and drop-2/4 chord voicings applicable to them. Blues, rhythm changes, Giant Steps, patterns, approachnotes, across the bar line phrasing, examples from jazz greats such as Joe Henderson, Wes Montgomery, Mike Stern and Wayne Krantz among others. This book is full of great sounds that you can use on standard jazz progressions, vamps, funk tunes, Brazilian tunes -- whole-tone can be used just about anywhere
