We will be in Investigating spread triads in this weeks lesson.
I would often hear players like Julian Lage, Jonathan Kreisberg and other modern players utilising lovely sounding wide interval structures and wondered how they did it.

Well rewind back to the year 1720 !
I was playing through Bach Violin sonatas on the guitar and realised that Bach was using triads but the chord tones were spaced out all over the place in different octaves and intervals.

By looking closely at these, I developed and came up with many of the voicing I will show you today.

As I say, Bach was the original jazzer!
You can see all the voice movement that Charlie Parker used pioneering bebop music.

Below are the shapes I’ve come up with.
You don’t have to learn them all before class, just have them to hand when I am explaining the concepts involved. Probably best to print them out.

We will be using these for use in both chord melody and single note line soloing. We will begin to use these shapes for the basis of sophisticated Counterpoint and Polyphony ideas.

Don’t worry if you can’t play them all by the end of the class. This is just an exhaustive diagram of all the possible shapes to keep working on over time!

Quartal clusters – inversions, voice movement, modal uses, 251 prog

Ever wondered how guitarists play about 20 chords over 1 chord?!

We will be looking at a concept to create interesting modern chordal movements, single note line solos & fresh ideas for composition.

We will be looking at playing over Gminor Dorian & C7 mixolydian
ie the 2 and 5 chords of Fmaj

And transpose this to other keys.

  Make sure you are familiar with these modes.

Then make sure you can play the triad inversions of Fmajor, Gminor and Aminor in the “E shape”

this will be our starting point to derive the quartal harmony!

you need to know which is the root, 3rd, 5th of each triad.

here is a diagram of the shapes, Aminor is simply the same as Gminor 2 frets up.

See you this week on either Thurs or Sunday!

August
2nd – Brunswick Jazz Jam, the Brunswick, Hove, 8pm
3rd – Brighton i360 opening launch, solo guitar, 10am – 12am, 2pm-5pm
3rd eve – Independent, Brighton, duo with Bjorn Dahlberg, 8pm
4th – solo guitar, Southampton barracks
6th – solo guitar, Brighton i360 event, 6pm
7th – Duo, The Westbourne, Hove, 7.30pm
9th -Brunswick Jazz Jam, the Brunswick, Hove
10th – Independent, Brighton, duo with Aneesa Chaudhry, 8pm
15th eve -Duo, The Westbourne, Hove, 7.30pm
16th -Brunswick Jazz Jam, the Brunswick, Hove, 8pm
17th -Independent, Brighton, duo with Mike Potter, 8pm
18th – 21st – Solo guitar performances in Oman, Arabian Peninsula
23rd -Brunswick Jazz Jam, the Brunswick, Hove, 8pm
24th Independent , Brighton, 8pm
29th – Rye Jazz Festival, Paul Richards trio, 1pm The Buttermarket