MELODIC ROSETTE (Melodic Phrases and Ideas in The Style of Kurt Rosenwinkel) + backing track

MELODIC ROSETTE (Melodic Phrases and Ideas in The Style of Kurt Rosenwinkel)

Over the last few decades the musical voice of the great guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel has charted numerous new harmonic landscapes and sonic dimensions to be explored by all improvisers. It has inspired every single modern jazz guitar player on the scene and has served as a definition of excellence, virtuosity and sheer genius.

Over my musical journey so far I have been deeply touched and inspired by Rosenwinkel’s magic both as a performer and as a composer and in this book of melodic phrasing ideas and exercises I want to pay a special tribute to Kurt and some of his signature and intricate long-range melodic lines that are an important trait of his mesmerizing playing style.

The material presented in the book is not meant to show specific licks or melodic passages (note for note) that Kurt uses in his playing, but rather offer some melodic ideas and exercises intended to help you develop a sense as to how to capture a similar fluid and intricate melodic navigation/control over the entire range of your instrument.

There are ten “rosette” exercises presented here taken through every position and mode fingering of the F Major scale. All the material is based on only two different melodic nuclei or architectural frameworks which I believe produce a nice Rosenwinkel style flavor when applied over the melodic line.

As you can imagine there are countless permutations and inversions that we can generate from this two structural melodic ideas and in this book I want to present to you some of my favorite ways to practice and internalize such information so you can channel it through your own musical prism and make the sound your own.

The information is only presented in a Major tonal system but I encourage you to try and apply it to all other systems that might be of use to you; melodic minor, harmonic minor, pentatonic, etc.

I also advise to rhythmically displacing the material and try to play the different phrases presented in the text as triplets, four note groupings, five note groupings, etc.

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