Using the standard “You and the Night and the Music” as a vehicle, John and Mike demonstrate an arrangement in two keys and discuss the benefits of using modulation as a device to internalize and memorize chord progressions. John and Mike also reference some melodic and harmonic chord voicings to access tensions over major and dominant chords.

Sub-Topics:

• Playing over the bar line to develop asymmetrical phrasing
• Improvising with a pulse and no fixed meter
• Chord shapes as templates for single line improvising

Categories:

Chord Voicings
Comping
Harmony
Modern Jazz Guitar
Theory

Expected Outcome:

Have motivation and skills to create modulations in arrangements and improve memorization and transposing abilities.