modal jazz lesson | Jens Larsen

You need strategies for Jazz Comping in modal or static chord sections of songs. When you start learning Jazz comping on the guitar then you learn to play progressions, focusing on how to connect the chords play through the changes and get that to sound good and natural.

But the skills you develop with this won’t help you when there is a long stretch of one chord, like modal jazz, and there is no chord progression that automatically makes your jazz chords sound interesting.

In this video, I am going to go over some examples of how to comp jazz guitar on a static chord, develop some phrases, add extra chords, chromatic sounds and other things to make your jazz guitar comping more interesting.

Other great lessons on Modal comping and Jazz Comping

Beautiful Jazz Chords from Allan Holdsworth – Modal chords

The 3 Most Important Things For Solid Jazz Comping

Comping Rhythms – 10 Examples You Need To Know

Jazz Chord Voicings – The 9 Different types you should know

Content:

0:00 Intro – Comping on Static/Modal Chords

0:39 Two Basic Strategies – Allan Holdsworth vs Wynton Kelly

1:29 Example 1 Basic simple riff around chords you already know. Clear melody

2:55 Example 2 Diatonic voicings and a little voice-leading

4:17 Example 3 Pedal Point melody

5:19 Example 4 Quartal Voicings – Borrowing from McCoy Tyner

6:22 Example 5 Two Layers and Call-Response

7:20 Example 6 Chromatic Passing Chords

8:11 Example 7 More Chromaticism

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When You think about Modal Jazz then usually you think about playing on one chord or vamp using the same sound all the time. That is not how Herbie Hancock approaches it in this solo on the Wayne Shorter song Witchhunt off the Speak No Evil album. This Herbie Hancock Lesson breaks down a lot of great surprising rhythms and melodies, moving in and out of the tonality, and adding some Atonal Chromatic ideas as well.

To me, this is one of the greatest Herbie Solos I know, and also a fantastic example of how to play medium swing and play some fantastic rhythmical ideas.

Content:

0:00 Intro

0:09 The Ultimate Modal Solo

0:40 Speak No Evil – 1964

1:14 Four & More + My Funny Valentine

1:20 Example #1

1:32 Shifting Sus4 motifs

2:02 Breaking Down the melodies

2:12 Quartal Arpeggios and Modal Jazz

3:19 Example #1 Slow

3:33 Build up of the phrases

3:56 Witchhunt Analysis – a Minor Blues

4:36 Example #2

4:42 Slow Progressions – Modal

5:22 Super-imposed Altered dom7th

6:23 Example #2 Slow

6:30 Example #3

6:37 Chromatic Melodies – Leading notes

7:10 Chromatic Melodies – Atonal ideas

8:21 Example #3 Slow

8:43 Example #4

8:50 Back to Jazz! Tonal Minor

9:12 Medium Swing? The most difficult tempo in Jazz?

10:14 Example #4 Slow

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The amount of notes and colors that you can add to chords on the piano is always making guitar players jealous. But in this Herbie Hancock Guitar Lesson, I am going to take the Herbie Hancock Voicing for an m11 chord and show how you can transform it into a great arpeggio with a huge range and a lot of nice colors.

Herbie Hancock Voicing = Awesome Huge Arpeggio on Guitar

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