Size: A4
Number of pages: 96
Option: CD included
A textbook for guitarists that uses famous phrases left by modern jazz legends to improve their improvisation phrasing and sense.
Even now, 50 years after his death, jazz legend John Coltrane continues to have a major influence on guitarists across a wide range of genres, including jazz musicians and rock musicians alike. This book is a beginner's guide to mastering jazz guitar using Coltrane's improvisational phrases as teaching materials.
The book includes tablature so that you can practice improvisation phrases from Coltrane's representative original songs, such as "Moments Notice," "Blue Train," "Impressions," and "Giant Steps," on the guitar, and explains the phrasing know-how. The accompanying CD contains the theme of each song and one or two choruses of improvisation. The parts that are not included are provided as reference examples.
Using the performances of Coltrane, who could be said to be the history of modern jazz itself, you will master the basics and applications of jazz guitar, from bebop to modal jazz.
[CONTENTS]
Introduction: Features and how to use this book
PART-1 Music notation and jazz basics
■ Staff and note names
■ Accentuations
Main accidentals
Key signature
Accidentals
Enharmonic pronunciation by accidentals
■ Power
Basic Degrees
Accurate prescription
■ Basic knowledge of scales
Major scale
Minor scale
■ Basic knowledge of code
Basic code
Tension chord
Chord inversions and on-chords
The meaning of the code names
■ Chord functions and chord progressions
Diatonic Chords
Three Chord Functions
Substitute Code
Diatonic chords in minor keys
Two Five
■How to create ad-lib phrases
Chord Breakdown Phrases
Phrases using tension
Approach and passing notes
Scale-based phrases
Phrases using chord scales
Reharmonized phrases
Blues and the Blue Note
Modal phrases
Outside phrases
Minor scale
PART-2 Chord-based improvisation practice with "Moments Notice"
HARMONIC ANALYSIS
PHRASING ANALYSIS
Phrasing with non-diatonic two-five
Improvisation on a progression modulated down a whole step
Part that modulates from C minor to A♭ major
The part where the key changes to G♭ major and then returns to the original key
"Moment's Notice" SCORE
"Moment's Notice" reference score
PART-3 Let's play some blues improvisation on "Blue Train"
HARMONIC ANALYSIS
PHRASING ANALYSIS
Bluesy phrasing that makes use of blue notes
A combination of bluesy and jazzy phrases
Speedy phrases that make full use of scale notes
"Blue Train" SCORE
"Blue Train" reference score
PART-4 Learning minor blues improvisation with "Equinox"
HARMONIC ANALYSIS
PHRASING ANALYSIS
Phrasing on tonic chords
Phrasing on subdominant chords
Phrasing on Seventh Chords
"Equinox" SCORE
"Equinox" reference score
PART-5 Improvisation of ballad numbers played on "Neima"
HARMONIC ANALYSIS
PHRASING ANALYSIS
Pentatonic scale + 9th phrases
Phrasing on a major seventh chord
Phrasing in the first half of the chorus
Phrasing in the second half of the chorus
"Naima" SCORE
PART-6 Learning Pentatonic Scale Improvisation in "Spiritual"
HARMONIC ANALYSIS
PHRASING ANALYSIS
Minor pentatonic scale based phrasing
Modal Phrasing of the Pentatonic Scale
Simulation phrases using the same notes on different strings
"Spiritual" SCORE
"Spiritual" reference score example
PART-7 Playing modal phrases in "Impressions"
HARMONIC ANALYSIS
PHRASING ANALYSIS
D Dorian mode based phrasing
Phrases using fourth intervals
Phrasing based on E♭Dorian mode
"Impressions" SCORE
"Impressions" reference score
PART-8 Learning Coltrane Change Improvisation with "Giant Steps"
HARMONIC ANALYSIS
PHRASING ANALYSIS
Phrases using chord tones and scale notes
Phrasing with chord tones and tensions
Scale-based phrasing
Passing note usage phrases
"Giant Steps" SCORE
"Giant Steps" reference score
