Have you ever wondered how guitarists like Joe Pass, Jim Hall and Wes Montgomery find such full, luscious voicings for their chord melody playing? Well, much of that sound is based on the "Drop 2" principle of chord voicings. In this book, veteran guitarist Randy Vincent explains exactly how you can get that same sound too. Endorsed by Julian Lage, John Stowell, Larry Koonse, etc.

THE DROP VOICING BOOK FOR GUITAR is a comprehensive text covering the logic behind "drop" voicings and their application to harmonic progressions and voice-leading. This ground-breaking resource investigates/includes: How "drop" voicings are formed, and their application to the guitar Four types of drop voicings on nine string sets The art of spacing or voicing chords Six "core" 6th & 7th chord qualities How to derive voicings from elemental forms How to move beyond mere memorization and recitation of shapes and voice-lead harmonic textures spontaneously Nine comprehensive studies on the Autumn Leaves chord progression Reductive techniques to tailor density & register to ensemble/context Using chordal knowledge to improvise harmonically-specific melodies Harmonizing melodies: "chord-melody" playing Extended tertian harmony Substitution & superimposition theory and techniques Alteration techniques to create an enormous palette of additional chord qualities Free audio downloads TAB, standard notation, diagrams, and comprehensive charts for practice and reference QUOTES ON THE AUTHOR: "Dan Cosley is a real, gifted musician with genuine skills as a composer. He belongs to a restricted community of guitarists who place music even above the guitar." - Roland Dyens "Exceptional qualities as a performer, scholar, and human being... Cosley is also a very talented and accomplished composer and improviser." - Ricardo Iznaola AUTHOR BIO: DAN COSLEY is a guitarist, composer, and arranger based in Kyoto, Japan. An expert on classical guitar technique and repertoire, as well as jazz improvisation, Dan has successfully prepared students to attend top institutions such as the Berklee College of Music while maintaining a full teaching, composing, and performing schedule. Three intensive years as teaching assistant to renowned pedagogue Ricardo Iznaola strongly influenced Dan's teaching and learning approach. Afterward, he served as professor of music at Marylhurst University in Portland, Oregon, where he taught classical and jazz guitar, orchestration, guitar ensemble, notation, and composition. In 2017, following the closure of Marylhurst University, Dan took leave from academia and relocated to Kyoto, Japan, to intensify his composition and performance activities. Most recently he has created wayoftheguitar.com, a comprehensive online training system for fret-board harmony, aural skills, and improvisation.

This book provides discussion and exercises for the use of three-note voicings in jazz guitar. The book also includes some four and five-note voicings. Includes chapters on shell voicings, walking guitar, triad pairs, quartal and secundal harmony, and more. With an introduction.

"This is a very comprehensive text that combines theory, harmony and voicing material with emphasis placed on voice leading. Although this book's primary focus is on four-note chord voicings on the middle strings of the guitar, much of the knowledge conveyed here can be appreciated and used by all jazz musicians, not only guitarists. Topics covered include: Tensions, Voice Leading Chord Scales, Enharmonic Chordal Substitutions, Fourth Voicings, Chromatic Guide Lines, Triad Over Bass Voicings, and much more! The best part of this book, however, is the unique and practical way the author takes modern harmonic concepts and shows you how to apply them in real music situations! Written for the intermediate to advanced music theory enthusiast who wishes to master this facet of music."

Written as a sequel to Complete Book of Harmony, Theory, & Voicing, this comprehensive source book of harmonic styles and colors offers a wide variety of chord types and progressions, and provides and in-depth exploration of guitar chord voicings. Written in notation and tablature. A companion CD is included.

The most comprehensive book ever written on how to create the 4-note, block-chord approach to jazz piano playing used by masters like McCoy Tyner, Bill Evans, Barry Harris, Cedar Walton, etc. In this book, world-renowned pianist and educator Mark Levine provides a step-by-step, beginning to advanced, masterclass on how to create, practice and extend this most useful appraoch to jazz chord voicings.

Having developed two of the most prolific and respected guitar programs in the world (Berklee School of Music in the 1960s and University of North Texas in the 1980s), Jack Petersen is arguably the most influential academic jazz guitar teacher of our time. Mick Goodrick and John Abercrombie, to drop a couple big jazz guitar names, and countless other great players all went through the School of Jack Petersen. This book presents Jack's revolutionary systematic chord voicing techniques for guitar. This easy to use system is a must for anyone serious about learning and understanding chords on guitar. Concepts of root position chords, inversions and a number of other voicing tricks are covered with standard notation, tab, and chord diagrams.

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