Steve Herberman – Advanced Jazz Guitar Lessons: Altered Sounds

Excerpts from class available at www.mikesmasterclasses.com
Altered Sounds
In TAB and standard notation, 25 pages of written material
Western music is based on the idea of harmonic cadence, tension and release.
It’s easy to balance tension and release once the principles are clearly understood. This in-depth
masterclass will have you playing those spicy sounds you hear on recordings by your favorite jazz
artists. Through close examination of the principles and theory necessary to master these sounds
including organizing them on the fingerboard, you’ll find it easy to improvise great sounding altered
lines.
A thorough understanding of altered dominants requires knowledge of raised and lowered fifths and
ninths, b5, #5, b9 and #9 from all roots. We’ll use landmarks on the guitar’s fingerboard by way of
chord forms and root locations to quickly find all of the altered tones. Additionally there are simple
shortcuts to group these 4 tones together using scales such as the minor pentatonic scales you already
know, the dorian mode, super locrian (melodic minor mode) and more. Many examples leave room for
you to weave your own line into a written line. We’ll use triad pairs, a special mixolydian pentatonic
scale, bebop scales, harmonic major and harmonic minor scales, altered chord fragments/arpeggios,
altered chord shapes, diminished sounds and the alignment of scales to make important harmonic
connections on the strong beats. The section on sequential playing makes the altered lines simple to
derive by moving the scales you are comfortable with up and down the fingerboard using repetition and
structure to your advantage. This class starts simply and covers a lot of ground making it useful for all
levels, beginning to advanced players.

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