The bebop scales are frequently used in jazz, and deservedly got their name from their extensive use in the bebop era 1940s60s by such jazz musicians as charlie christian, wes montgomery, charlie parker and dizzie gillespie, to name a few. This line is built by playing down the bebop scale over a iim7 or v7 chord, then playing up a triad and resolving to the 6 th of that chord. I bought this book before chordal bebop lines, and it also provides a great vocabulary of movable block chords for improvised chord soloing not chord melody. Guitar notes quotes showing 15 of 5 maybe it explains the reason why one person likes another. For when you have to learn to play the bass right now. The bebop scale is a dominant scale and has the same function in a key as the mixolydian scale. Jim hall chords and comping techniques terence wright. Jazz guitar and trumpet books and chordal bebop lines. When learning how to solo as a jazz guitarist, there are few players that you can study who have more command of the bebop vocabulary than joe pass. If you enjoyed this lick and want to explore these concepts further, check out my article 21 bebop scale patterns for jazz guitar. Learn to play guitar by chord tabs using chord diagrams, transpose the key, watch video lessons and much more. The 251 chord progression is one of the most popular chord progressions in bebop and jazz in general because of its popularity, its important that you are able to navigate these changes well. The dominant bebop scale can be used to play jazz lines over a dominant chords e. A dictionary of melodic ideas for improvisation reh pro licks paperback june 1, 2002.
These licks are based on the dominant form of the bebop scale. The note names on the thin e string will be the same as on the thick e string. And the two are blended together so thoroughly and so often that its hard to say that one is done more than the other. Understanding the basic triadic sound, root35 of the chord then adding the 7th and how to connect them will go along way to making your lines. I f you took a quick survey and asked a few people to describe the components of bebop, you might come up with some answers like. The simplest guitar chord is the open chord for major or minor.
Tabs for guitars, guitar tabs, guitar tablatures in pdf. This book is a step by step approach to building bebop lines. This chord form can be used in all keys, because it is moveable to any position on the guitar neck. The main reason is because the guitar is so visual that a player can learn everything by patterns and shapes. Guitar a dictionary of melodic ideas for improvisation. These open guitar chords have only one open string. The following chord studies are optional and their mastery is not required in order to begin this course. The one piece of knowledge that is missing with many guitarists, often players who want to play rock styles, is the knowledge of where every single note is on the fretboard. The result was scale concept that has become known as the bebop scale.
For the rest it is the same as e major and a major. This tool has been built to be easy and fun to use. The following 24 licks will give you some options and muchneeded variation to play over ii v i progressions. Minor bebop scales can be used to improvise over minor 7th chords, such as those found in 2 5 1 progressions. All of these require a fair amount of technique on the instrument compared to say using one mode to improvise over one chord for four bars at a medium tempo. Building jazz bebop lines now we will look at putting our scales and arpeggios together to create jazz lines that we can use for improvisation. Slither is a song by velvet revolver from the album contraband.
Along with our scale, modes and arpeggios, we will also use a couple of other common techniques including passing tones and neighbor tones. How to play chordal bebop lines for guitar download. Please subscribe to my channel for more jazz guitar lessons. The dominant bebop scale is basically a mixolydian scale with an extra passing note inserted between the root and the b7. Anybody mastered the fingerings for the bebop scales. Our lessons are broken up into different topics, so pick your poison. This course is designed to get you playing songs than you ever thought possible. Practical nuts and bolts material to get harmonic definition jerry bergonzi i love this book because its an easy read and is extremely comprehensive at the same time. Bebop licks for guitar, presented in notation and tab. Bebop scales are scales which are similar to diatonic scales with an exception of additional chromatic note added between one of the scales intervals. In this lesson on drop2 chords i want to demonstrate a set of voicings that are fairly easy to play on the guitar and very useful for playing chords with extensions. Volume 1how to play chordal bebop lines for guitar a guide to developing a linear chordal vocabulary for improvisation. Open chords slash chords jonathan barker guitar lessons. Pick up a free copy of my 64page jazz guitar pdf here and learn more about comping, improvisation and the necessities of playing jazz guitar.
Guitar chord finder learning hundreds of guitar chords. Nonetheless, it is advisable that you become familiar with them if not already so. Root the root note is the note the chord is built from. The collection of material of this book is, in our opinion, the basics to playing bass guitar for some event.
Written with the styles of wes montgomery, cal collins, and barney kessel in mind. I suggest practicing these lines along with a simple backing track, perhaps using pg musics band in a box software. Plastic comb binding allows it to lay flat on your music stand. Click download or read online button to get how to play chordal bebop lines for guitar book now. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. C7 bebop scale natural 7 th added c tonic major bebop scale sharp 5 th added. Here are two free guitar chord chart pdfs that are great for beginners and pros alike.
Drop 2 voicings part 1 jazz chord essentials jens larsen. So while the chord is expressed in our chart as fd, we could also call it a dm7. Wes montgomery is on fire as always, listen and take note. Bebop guitar the best beginners guide jazz guitar online. Im almost there, but still debating which fingerings are the easiest fast and smooth in certain keys. Beginners guitar chords continued the roots lowest black diamonds of these barre chord voicings can be aligned to any fret line to produce the desired letter named chord. The pdf loads in a new browser window rotate small displays to horizontal. Bebop guitar is the musical language of charlie parker, dizzy gillespie and thelonious monk played on guitar. Pay attention, burn through this as fast as you can, and you. Learn some fundamentals in bebop line building right here, with videos and pdf downloads.
I purchased chordal bebop lines book 1 free jazz guitar. The chord is notated by listing the chords name with a slash, followed the bass note. Making your lines sound more like jazz jazz guitarist. The best lines of charlie parker, dizzy gillespie, thelonius monk, and many more. Solo jazz guitar lesson how to play bebop lines chord. While all of these are true of the music, one of the most overlooked, but surprisingly simple devices of bebop is that of superimposing chords. Chord for guitar, guitar chord american guitar encyclopedia. Many bebop trumpet licks or scales are in 3rds, with a half step between each ascending 3rd. In simple terms, the bebop style consists of fast singlenote chromatic lines over top tin pan alley jazz standards. The complete guide to comping, chord melody, and chord soloing by charleston johnson. How to play beginning to advanced chordal bebop lines for.
Further explanation of the structure of a chord and its extension is to be found in the chord formula. Joe pass was a master of every aspect of jazz guitar playing, including solo guitar, duo guitar with vocals, chord soloing, single line playing, and of course chord melody. Improvising using lines of chords is an advanced craft. One has 144 of the most common chord types in all 12 keys and a smaller version of 2 chords. Its worth mentioning that the three notes of the f triad, f, a, and c, create a dm7 chord when played over the d bass. How to memorize the notes on the guitar neck why do it.
Bebop scale handout matt olson, saxophonist and educator. Im bad, im nationwide is a song by zz top from the album deguello. How to play beginning to advanced chordal bebop lines for jazz archtop guitar. Minor bebop scale guitar fretboard diagram g minor bebop scale version 1 guitar tab. So, using octave shapes you can work out the positions of all the notes of a certain letter on the neck. Related searches jazz bebop scales bebop scales for guitar bebop scales pdf saxophone bebop scales trombone music scale trombone scales for beginners trombone minor scales trombone major.
Heres a classic line based on the opening melody to honeysuckle rose, and one thats been used by every bebop musician at some point in their careers. These lines come from david bakers book how to play bebop vol. Included with the music and tab notation are the recorded audio example and a backing track to help you practice. Bebop era jazz musicians experimented with adding chromaticism to diatonic modal scales. Printable pdf ebooks for guitarist guitar walking bass lines and chords. So, if you know that there is a g on the third fret of the e string, it goes for both e strings theyre just in different octaves. By following this formula, you will be creating your own lines in no time. The tunes selected for this compilation represent the most vital and challenging pieces within the bebop vocabulary. The bebop scales, with one chromatic step added to a major, minor or. Its because their souls both thrum at the same frequency. Also, another book that provides a great chord vocabulary is chords for jazz guitar.
Working on licks and patterns through the bebop scale is a great way to expand your vocabulary and to dig deeper into the language used by great jazz musicians when blowing over standards and bebopinspired tunes. I also want to talk a bit about how you approach playing chords in terms of interpretation of chord extensions, substitutes. At the bottom, you will find the log in field labeled enter email. If you are already a subscriber to the guitar tab archive, follow these steps to log into your account.
The strong chord tones are root, 3 rd, 5 th and 7 th on the dominant chord and root, 3 rd, 5 th and 6 th not 7 th on tonic major and minor chords. The bebop scales add a chromatic passing tone to the basic scales so that strong chord tones occur on the strong beats. The basic premise of the bebop scale is to add one or more chromatic pitches to a preexisting scale in order to achieve a smoother melodic line with better voice leading. The smaller version is available as an image or pdf download that you can use as a pocket poster. Youtube 4 effective bebop scale fingerings for jazz guitar. The top 100 essential guitar chords acoustic mastery. Within bebop, the trumpet can play going up or down the scale. This online guitar software will help you learn hundreds of chords all along the fretboard.
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