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JAZZ GUITAR

This section explores some fundamental aspects of jazz guitar performance and its pedagogy. Transcribing improvisations is one of the most important and useful musical activity required in learning the jazz vocabulary with its specific phrasing. For the task I have included transcriptions of Wes Montgomery solos as well as solos of other great performers. The regular study of technique is essential and indispensable for the budding jazz artist who aspires to improvise creatively and spontaneously without restraint. Therefore, I have included technical exercises that explore various scale and arpeggio patterns. Under the heading voicings, the student will find different chord forms and exercises that have been developed to enhance rapid motor movement from one chord to the next. In the section entitled patterns you will find transcribed melodic lines that can be used to improvise on major chords, minor chords, dominant chords, or II-V-I progressions. Included are some of my original arrangements of classic standards for solo jazz guitar and an extensive recording list of fabulous guitar players.

Transcriptions (more to come soon!)

1) Montgomeryland Funk (pdf file) (The Montgomery Brothers -Pacific Jazz PJ17, 1958)
2) Satin Doll (The Wes Montgomery Trio -Riverside 1156, 1959)
3) Whisper Not (The Wes Montgomery Trio -Riverside 1156, 1959)
4) Missile Blues (The Wes Montgomery Trio -Riverside 1156, 1959)
5) Ecaroh (The Wes Montgomery Trio -Riverside 1156, 1959)
6) Airegin (pdf file) (The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery -Riverside 9320, 1960)
7) Au Privave (Cannonball Adderley and The Poll-Winners -Riverside 355, 1960)
8) Four On Six (The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery -Riverside 9320, 1960)
9) Mean To Me (Work Song : Leader Nat Adderley -Riverside 1167, 1960)
10) West Coast Blues (West Coast Blues : Harold Land Sextet -Riverside 68937, 1960)
11) Movin' Along (Movin' Along -Riverside 342, 1960)
12) Blue Roz (Bags Meets Wes -Riverside 407, 1961)
13) Something Like Bags (So Much Guitar -Riverside 342, 1961)
14) Blue n' Boogie (Full House -Riverside 434, 1962)
15) Cariba (Full House -Riverside 434, 1962)
16) Full House (Full House -Riverside 434, 1962)
17) Freddie The Freeloader (Portrait of Wes -Riverside 9492, 1963)
18) Pretty Blue (Fusion : Wes Montgomery With Strings -Riverside 9472, 1963)

Scales (Microsoft Word files)

blues scales
jazz minor scales
symmetrical scales

Arpeggios (Microsoft Word files)

augmented
diminished
dominant
major
minor7
minor7b5
min-maj7

Voicings (Microsoft Word files)

C7 chord form & extensions
exercises #1 and 2

G7 chord form & extensions
exercises #3, 4, 5

A minor chord form & extensions
C major chord form & extensions
exercises #6, 7, 8

Dm7 chord form & extensions
D major chord form & extensions
exercises #9, 10, 11

Cmaj9-C6/9 chord forms
exercises #12, 13, 14

Gmaj7 chord form & extensions
exercises #15, 16, 17

Eb minor chord form & extensions
exercises #18, 19, 20

Recording list

•George Benson- 'It’s Uptown with the George Benson Quartet'
•Jimmy Bruno- 'Like That', 'Burnin’'
•Kenny Burrell- 'Tin Tin Deo', 'Ellington is Forever, vol.1'
•Charlie Christian- 'Solo Flight'
•Tal Farlow- 'Chromatic Palette'
•Grant Green- 'Grantstand', 'Best of Grant Green, vol.1'
•Jim Hall- 'Intermodulation' (avec Bill Evans), 'Undercurrent' (avec Bill Evans), 'Jazz Guitar : Jim Hall',
•Barney Kessel- 'JellyBeans', 'The Poll Winners' (avec Shelly Manne et Ray Brown).
•John Mclaughlin- 'Inner Mounting Flame'
•Russell Malone- 'Russell Malone'
•Pat Martino- 'El Hombre', 'FootPrints', 'East!', 'Stone Blue'
•Pat Metheny- 'Bright Size Life', 'Pat Metheny Group'
•Wes Montgomery- 'Fingerpickin’', 'Guitar on The Go', 'The Incredible Jazz Guitar', 'Boss Guitar', 'Far Wes', 'Smokin’ at The Half Note', 'Full House', 'While We’re Young', 'Movin’Along', 'Bags Meets Wes'
•Roy Patterson- 'Inland Passages', 'Acadiana Suite', 'The release'
•Joe Pass- 'Virtuoso 1', 'Virtuoso 2', 'Virtuoso 3', 'Joy Spring', 'I Remember Charlie Parker', 'Chops' (avec Niels-Henning Orsted Pederson)
•Django Reinhardt- 'Djangology'
•Emily Remler- 'Take Two', 'Catwalk', 'Transitions'
•Lee Ritenour, Larry Carlton- 'Larry and Lee'
•John Scofield- 'Shinola'
•Mike Stern- 'A Time in Place', 'Standards(and other songs)'
•Johnny Smith- 'Moolight in Vermont'

Course Outline / Programme Type : Baccalauréat Interprétation Jazz: Guitare Jazz

Trimestre 1

(1) Répertoire : (4 à 5 standards ou plus mémorisés joué avec Aebersold et/ou avec métronome sur 2 et 4) incluant :

(a) 1 blues majeur (dans les 12 tons)
(b) un blues mineur (dans les 12 tons)
(c) un blues avec bridge (exemple : 'Locomotion')

(2) Repiquage : 1 repiquage joué simultanément avec l’enregistrement

(3) Étude :

(a) classique -Bach [tempo]
(b)jazz - étude Jimmy Raney

(4) Gammes: majeure (modes majeurs), mineur mélodique ('jazz minor'), mineur harmonique, gamme be-bop (dominante , majeure), blues, par tons, pentatonique, diminuée. [tempo]

(5) Arpèges: maj, maj7, min, min-maj7, min7, min7b5, dominante7, diminué7, augmenté, [tempo]

(6) Improvisation : Progressions en cycle

(a) [II-V7-I]
(b) [V7alt.-I]
(c) [IIm7b5-V7b9-Im]
(d) [cycle de quintes ex. C7, F7, Bb7, etc.] [tempo]
(e) [+ les différents patterns et 'motifs' proposé le professeur]

(7) Lecture à vue: avec métronome [tempo]