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Wise, Les: Jazz Improvisation For Guitar

Book and DVD

Setting: Guitar
Genre: Jazz, blues, latin
Length: 32 pages
Weight: 0.188 kg
Published: 2001
Publisher: Music Sales
Item number: HL00695657
This terrific book/online audio pack by Les Wise will allow you to make the transition from playing disjointed scales and arpeggios to playing melodic jazz solos that maintain continuity and interest for the listener. Topicscovered include: tension and resolution - major scale, melodic minor scale, and harmonic minor scale patterns - common licks and substitution techniques - creating altered tension - and more! Features standard notation and tab,and 35 demo tracks. The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audiowithout changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.

Contents

1.
Altered Tension In The Ii-v-i Progressions
2.
Altered Tension With The Major Arpeggio
3.
Altered Tension With The Major Scale
4.
Finding Functioning Dominant 7th Chords
5.
Jazz Guitar Thinking
6.
Major Scale Patterns
7.
Melodic Minor Scale And Arpeggion Forms
8.
Minor Ii-v-i Examples
9.
Natural And Altered Tension
10.
Playing The Examples From Chord Forms
11.
Putting It All Together
12.
Resolution In Soloing
13.
Scale Harmonization
14.
Tension And Resolution
15.
Tension And Resolution With Harmonic Minor
16.
Tension And Resolution With Jazz Minor
17.
Tension And Resolution With Major Scales
18.
The Dominant 7th Chord
19.
The Harmonic Minor Scale
20.
The Harmonic Minor Scale Forms
21.
The Jazz Or 'Real' Melodic Minor Scale
22.
The Minor Ii-v-i Progression
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