Practicing Masterclass
Mapping a Tune with Bebop Scales (Chroma Zone 02)
“Excellent. Gives great insight into how the melody of a tune can be conveyed by the appropriate chord scale while being faithful to the melody.”
About this masterclass
Genil Castro maps the standard Stella by Starlight with bebop scales, showing how to practice and integrate them by visualizing a tune's harmony and melody in one area of the guitar. This is the second lesson in his Chroma Zone series, following up on the introduction to bebop scales in lesson one.
What's covered
- Learning the melody first — in two registers where possible — as your first improvising tool
- Harmonically mapping the whole tune within a single six-fret area of the neck
- Visualizing melody and harmony in one position as two sides of the same coin
- Dominant bebop scale shapes (Mixolydian and Mixolydian b9 b13) in four positions
- Practicing bebop scales starting from the root, third, fifth, and flat seventh
- Technical tips on playing the triplet with sweep picking and legato
- The Pat Martino diminished matrix for finding dominant inversions on the fingerboard
- Syntactical vs. non-syntactical aspects of music, and why a note gets called Cb
Includes sheet music (PDF) with examples for each chord. Suited to intermediate and advanced players who want a concrete practice method for getting bebop scales into real tunes.
Lessons in this masterclass
Lessons
- 1Mapping a Tune with Bebop Scales (Chroma Zone 02)40m 12s
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"Mapping a Tune with Bebop Scales (Chroma Zone 02) | by Genil Castro"
Excellent. Gives great insight into how the melody of a tune can be conveyed by the appropriate chord scale while being faithful to the melody.
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Studies: Genil Castro started to play in 1981, he studied with the great Bossa Nova guitar player Sidney Barros ( Gamela). During the period of 1983/84 Genil enrolled Guitar Institute of Technology in Hollywood, California where he attended workshops and seminars by Lenny Breau, Howard Roberts, Mick Goodrick, Joe Diorio, Ron Eschete, Joe Pass, Tommy Tedesco, Larry Coryell and Moacir Santos. He also attended seminars by Joe Diorio in Brazil in 1985, 1989 and 1995. Licensed in music education by University of Brasília, Genil has a Masters Degree in Musicology, with the thesis: “What chord is that? Plurality: the creative process of resignification of melodic and harmonic structures” Performance: Influenced by Lenny Breau and Bill Evans Genil follows the tradition of the ‘electric lap piano” utilising artificial harmonics to expand the harmonic palette of the instrument. Genil played concerts, and/or recorded TV programs with João Donato, Hamilton de Holanda, Toninho Horta, Joe Diorio, Jeff Andrews, Don Burrows, Phil DeGreg, Lula Galvão, Nelson Faria and many others. He recorded the CD CircumAmbulation in 2009. Teaching: Genil teaches the following classes: guitar, history of the guitar and performance at CEP/EMB Escola de Música de Brasília since 1999. He gave seminars in various festivals across the country. Since 2006 he teaches online lessons to students from different continents. Genil Castro's approach to jazz is comfortable for any level of guitarist. He has a unique ability to teach difficult concepts in a simple way.