Rock/Fusion Improvising 5/19/04

Carl Filipiak?s Private Lessons Series on Rock/Fusion Improvising is the perfect vehicle for the rock guitarist who wants to add elements of jazz to their playing. Discover many of the concepts that fusion, jazz, and ?jam bands? use. Intervallic harmony, diminished scales and how to use them are just a few topics that are covered. Take your blues/rock licks to another level! This play-along CD includes odd-time signatures, funk and Indian grooves and features Carl Filipiak on guitar and a smokin? rhythm section, which includes John Thomakos on drums and Steve Zerlin on bass. Also included on one track is world-renown drummer, Dennis Chambers.

Contents

Intro/Acknowledgements
Harmony
Intervallic Harmony
Melody
Motifs
Triads
Sequences
Intervals
Suspended Chords
Dominant Sounds Derived from the Diminished Scale
I Only Know Four Scales
The Melodic Minor Scale
Imaginary Chords and Other Cool Stuff
Triad Pairs and Odd Note Groupings
Giant Steps Changes
Odd Time Signatures and Assorted Grooves
Short List of Slash Chords
Song Forms