JAZZ-ROCK FUSION Hal Leonard Guitar method Mark Huls CD TABLATURE LIBRO SPARTITI METODO

JAZZ-ROCK FUSION, Hal Leonard Guitar method, Mark Huls. CD TABLATURE

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Series: Guitar Method
Format: Softcover with CD - TAB
Author : Mark Huls

Learn to play sophisticated lead lines and intelligent rhythm parts with step-by-step lessons and 21 great jazz fusion songs. Hal Leonard Jazz-Rock Fusion is your complete guide to mastering fusion guitar. You'll learn the many elements of this exciting music through real song examples by masters such as John McLaughlin, Mike Stern, Allan Holdsworth, Scott Henderson, John Scofield, Pat Metheny, and many more. Songs include: Birdland • Blue in Green • Freddie Freeloader • My Favorite Things • Nardis • Oye Como Va • She's a Woman • Spanish Key • and more.

INTRODUCTION: GETTING FUSED

When you listen to the pioneering sounds of Miles Davis's Bitches Brew (1969) and ask yourself, "What is fusion?", only one thing can come to mind: a total exploration of the sonic experience. This is true for most jazz-rock fusion efforts of the late sixties and early seventies, the era in which it emerged as a recognized independent form of music. The era produced many architects of the fusion sound, including Tony Williams, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Joe Zawinul, and guitar greats such as John McLaughlin and Larry Coryell. This period also saw the influence of jazz in rock, with groups such as the Byrds, Hendrix, Cream, the Greatful Dead, Frank Zappa, Blood Sweat and Tears, and Chicago experimenting in free-form improvisations and jazz tonalities. Regarding fusion, rock's contributions can be heard in its straight-eighth or sixteenth-note repetitive patterns and grooves. This is in contrast to traditional jazz-swing rhythms. Rock attributes also include certain tonal characteristics, such as power chords, classic rock/blues/funk phrasing, and a greater use of "guitar" techniques such as bending. The fusion sound was also heavily influenced by the use of electronic instruments and effects in sixties rock, such as distortion, delay, wah, and phasing. With expansive, and at times haunting, plays of harmony borrowed from the wider harmonic field of jazz, the improvisational character of jazz, and the drive and emotion of rock, fusion captured the emotional expression and conscious expansion sought by its early creators. Their music traveled from dreamy soundscapes to bursts of explosive energy with the ability to find a solid foundation in the consistent drive of an underlying rock or funk groove. This formula of early fusion reflected the explorative spirit of the sixties and remains a part of fusion today. However, it has also expanded into many facets, with artists gravitating towards greater or lesser sides of jazz or rock and their counterparts of funk, fusion, blues, and pop. Modern fusion guitarists include such players as Scott Henderson, John Scofield, Pat Metheny, and Allan Holdsworth, all of which lean to the more "hard-core" end of the experimental and exploratory side of fusion. Meanwhile, players such as Larry Carlton, Earl Klugh, and Lee Ritenour have found success in the pop culture of fusion music-what is known as the "smooth-jazz" sound. The influence of jazz-rock fusion does not end solely with those artists considered to be "fusion" artists. Mainstream rock and pop guitarists and musicians of every facet have found inspiration from the jazz and jazz-rock fusion sound. Consider the works of Sting, Carlos Santana, Dave Matthews, Nora Jones, and Joni Mitchell, to name only a few. Many fusion artists, especially those of the early sixties and seventies, drew artistic and personal inspiration from a desire for music to serve as a channel to greater mental and or spiritual consciousness. This concept can also be found in Eastern philosophies in which certain sounds and or rhythms open "spiritual" centers. Such influences are evident in the group names and album titles of the early fusion era as well. These concepts, and the inherent artistic drive of the jazz-rock fusion artist to branch out into a greater musical experience, have also introduced world and ethnic music forms into the fusion sound, including Latin, African, and Eastern music influences. As a melting pot of style and artistic personality, a mere attempt to define jazz-rock fusion might sound like: a spirit of limitless harmonic and melodic potential alive with the heart of groove.  

THE TONE AND SOUND OF FUSION GUITAR

Technique

Voice Leading

scales

Arpeggios

Modes

Patterns

Superimposition

Re-harmonization

Amplification & Effects

Phrasing

Chords

Evolving the Vamp

Improvisation

Harmonization

Expanding the blues

Conclusion

Song List:
All The Things You Are
Birdfingers
Birdland
Blue In Green
Chromozone
500 Miles High
Follow Your Heart
Freddie Freeloader
Freedom Jazz Dance
Freeway Jam
Hymn Of The Seventh Galaxy
Kid Charlemagne
Low-Lee-Tah
My Favorite Things
Nardis
Oleo
Oye Como Va
The Red One
Samba Pa Ti
She's A Woman
Spanish Key

Inventory #HL 00697387
EAN: 9781423431978
UPC: 884088167004
Width: 9.0"
Length: 12.0"
112 pages