GUITAR: IMPROVISATION GUITAR: JAZZ IMPROVISATION BERKLEE PRESS Jazz Improvisation for Guitar: A Harmonic Approach Use jazz harmony to play more intelligent, imaginative, “Jazz Improvisation for Guitar is a must for any jazz guitarist and creative solos. Recognize appropriate note choices and who wants to know the secrets of advanced improvising. alternatives, whether improvising over easy or complex Professor Fewell uses his many years of teaching experience (he harmonic progressions. See analysis and melodies created taught my son Julian when he was at Berklee) plus his prodigious using each concept, “bringing the blackboard to the fretboard.” musical talent, to lay out the exact tools for cracking the advanced Traditional notation and tab included. harmony in modern jazz. I learned some ideas I hadn’t thought of from this book, and anyone who takes Garrison’s rich and You will learn to build solos using techniques such as: comprehensive journey into the non-diatonic aspect of playing will be well rewarded.” • Improvise using a rich harmonic palette, over many types of chord changes — , Pioneer Fusion Guitarist, Recorded with Charles Mingus, Gary Burton, • Enrich your harmonic context for improvisation using Chick Corea, and John McLaughlin characteristic diatonic substitutions and upper-structure triads • Reharmonize melodies using diatonic, hybrid, and polychord “Very ambitious endeavor by guitarist/author Garrison Fewell. voicings Many topics are included with much care and organized beautifully. This could almost be a dictionary or a thesaurus of • Use other non-diatonic chords, such as altered, II7, and musical study. Lots of great examples, and nicely engraved as diminished chords b well. Should be in every musician’s library. I for one will do some • Use parallel modes and dominant substitution as sources for study here!” new harmonic colors — Jack Wilkins, Author and Guitarist with Chet Baker, Sarah Jazz Improvisation • Explore a variety of scale types, including minor scales, Vaughan, Bob Brookmeyer, Buddy Rich symmetrical-diminished scales, and ways of finding new “For the musician wanting a better understanding of harmonies, such as four-tonic systems for Guitar improvisation, this book is a must have. While the main focus of • Create expressive solos with all these tools, applying these the book is for guitar, it really works for anyone wanting to know rich harmonic contexts within a framework of traditional more about improvising. Garrison has put together information A Harmonic Approach counterpoint and compositional practice explaining the harmonic variables that help create interesting improvised solos. The written examples are easy to understand Garrison Fewell has taught thousands of guitarists since the 1970s and even have fingering charts to show the best way to execute at Berklee College of Music and around the world. He has played them. Improvisation is a never-ending study to develop a musical on dozens of recordings, both as a leader and with artists such as vocabulary to implement your ideas. With the help of this book, Herbie Hancock, Slide Hampton, Tal Farlow, Benny Golson, and you can begin this journey.” many others. This book is a companion to his first book, Jazz Improvisation for Guitar: A Melodic Approach (Berklee Press). — Steve LaSpina, SteepleChase Recording Artist, Composer, Educator, Recorded with ,

“Garrison Fewell has long been a hero to the jazz guitar , Stan Getz, Randy Brecker community. Read this book and you will find out why.” Garrison Fewell “This book is a treasure chest of advanced concepts presented — Jim Hall, in a very accessible and enjoyable way. The “tip” boxes alone Acclaimed Jazz Guitarist, Composer, Arranger could be a go-to for countless hours of repeat practice sessions for “This book contains the answers to many of the questions I players of any level.” have been getting from my students throughout my 35 years — Liberty Ellman, Guitarist, Composer, Pi Recording Artist, of private teaching. The chapter on Melodic Counterpoint is Member of Henry Threadgill’s ZOOID wonderful and probably the only guitar book I know of that explains counterpoint so concisely.” — Vic Juris, Author, Composer, Guitarist with , , Mel Tormé,

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