My teacher had to go out of town today. Also, I will be out of town
next Monday. So I have a couple weeks to work on last week's lesson.
I have taken the opportunity to read Jerry Coker's fine book, 'Jazz
Improvisation' plus another entitled Theory for Guitar (author name
escapes me, Nat. Guitar Workshop series). Both are less than 100
pages and the total B&N cost was about $23.00 for both. The second
book has lots of exercises for the modes and scales that I hope to go
back and study with axe in hand.
Reading these, especially Coker, has given me real insight into how
the modes and scales are used in improvisation. I found that I was
doing a lot of this intuitively already, except that I was using
primarily the major and minor scales. As long as it was a diatonic
progression, (see Clif and Pete, I'm a-larnin') my solo notes sounded
pretty much 'in', provided I hit the notes I was hearing in my head.
I can't wait to see where this leads!
Maintain
Marshall
