Excerpt from Tom's class, available for download at www.mikesmasterclasses.com
Modern Jazz Guitar
The twenty-first century has, so far, been an exciting time for jazz with a flurry of creativity and innovation energized by the newest generation of jazz musicians. The guitar has become a more important instrument in jazz than ever before, and jazz groups featuring guitarists are now the norm rather than the exception.
Guitarists with unprecedented virtuosity and originality have driven the instrument's rise in prominence and have established a new "modern sound" that is becoming part of the jazz vocabulary. Players such as Kurt Rosenwinkel, Ben Monder, Jonathan Kreisberg, John Stowell, Gilad Hekselman, Adam Rogers, Lage Lund, and Nir Felder are inventive, ingenious, and forward-thinking while still managing to maintain a strong connection to the tradition. If you have heard these and other modern jazz guitarists and wondered How do they get that sound?, then this series of classes is for you.
The Modern Jazz Guitar series was created for the intermediate to advanced jazz guitarist who already has a basic command of traditional jazz vocabulary including the basics of improvising over chord changes, comping/chord vocabulary, and knowledge of standard chord progressions. This multi-part series examines the modern jazz guitar style in systematic detail and is divided into five classes that cover melody (single note improvisation), harmony (using chords for comping, chord soloing, and self-comping), rhythm, and tone/equipment. An informative introductory class examines the roots of the modern style and includes a discussion of the right and left hand techniques that many of the modern players use.
Numerous musical examples, including specific licks, phrases, and chord voicings in the style of several modern jazz guitarists, are demonstrated during the classes and provided in the written materials in traditional notation, tablature, and/or chord grid form, but the lessons have been designed to be open-ended enough that you will be encouraged to find your own path and work toward developing your unique musical voice.
Modern Jazz Guitar Part 3, Harmony, covers:
• survey of modern jazz guitar chord voicings and harmony
• discussion of three different approaches to harmony: tonal, modal, and polytonal
• ways to use some of the basic major-scale-derived voicings you may already know to get a more modern sound, with example voicings
• examples of melodic minor-derived drop 2 and drop 3 voicings and ideas for reharmonizing basic chord progressions with them, including a brief overview of the modes of melodic minor
• use of four-part-4th or 7sus4 chord structures for generating new harmonic material, either as substitute chords in a tonal context or in a modal context, with systematic presentation of voicings
• overview of the five possible four-note chord types contained within any seven-note scale, with an explanation and discussion of each, with examples
• examples of creating new voicings of the above chord types based on changing one or two notes of commonly known basic 7th chord shapes
• explanation of drop 2&4 and drop 2&3 voicings, with examples and discussions of each
• ideas for generating new voicings based on the above chords
• exploration of unusual, more dissonant, or "wrong" color tones added to basic shell voicings, with examples
• discussion of two- and three-note chords derived from four-note voicings, with examples
• using modern harmonic vocabulary for self-comping during a single note solo
• application of polytonality to playing over standard chord progressions, with both quartal and third-based chord voicings
• examples of chord voicings and chordal phrases in the style of several modern jazz guitarists including Kurt Rosenwinkel, Jonathan Kreisberg, Ben Monder, John Stowell, and Lage Lund
• backing MP3 play-along tracks used in the video for all examples and etudes available for free download at www.tomlippincott.com
• running time: 107 minutes
• includes 18 pages of written examples and exercises
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Tom Lippincott - Modern Jazz Guitar - Part IVby mgellar1,577 views
Excellent intro.
xxxxyyyyz1 2 weeks ago
i am really curious about this guitar.... is its sound very specified and still, or can you get a bunch of different sounds on it? how doues it sound with distortion? wah-wah pedal? using a pick, can you get a large area of dynamics I mean is there a big difference between a strong play and a soft play with a pick? how is this guitar called?
thank you very much, enjoyed watching this.
DarkPastelRed 3 months ago
Mgellar- you are going to aid me in improving on my favorite skill. From the bottom of my soul, thank you for all of your videos that you help share. :]
BlikeNave 6 months ago
awesomeness
rakmanenuff2 6 months ago
Great lessons! But that guitar s breathtaking.It seems that it sits quite nice.
fenderoid1111 6 months ago