Expertise in Jazz Guitar Improvisation: A Cognitive Approach

This book explores the cognitive and musical foundations of expertise in jazz guitar improvisation, through interviews, a modal matrix, and musical analysis based on cognitive theories. It demonstrates how jazz guitarists' strategies are dependent on context, style, and type of interplay, and includes accompanying video as an e-resource.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 224 pages
\n Publication date: 31 May 2021
\n Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Expertise in Jazz Guitar Improvisation delves into the intricate realm of musical interplay, exploring the fascinating interplay between implicit (sub-conscious) and explicit (conscious) knowledge during improvisation. This practice-based research inquiry encompasses a comprehensive array of elements, including in-depth interviews with five renowned jazz guitarists: Lage Lund, Jack Wilkins, Ben Monder, Rez Abbasi, and Adam Rogers. Additionally, a modal matrix is employed to analyze the structure, time, and form of jazz guitar improvisation, while musical analysis is grounded in cognitive theories.

By elucidating the cognitive and musical underpinnings of expertise in jazz guitar improvisation, this book sheds light on the critical role that context, style, and the nature of interplay play in shaping jazz guitarists' strategies. Accompanied by a comprehensive video resource available as an e-book, this material appeals to a wide range of individuals with a fascination for both Jazz and the Psychology of Music.

\n Weight: 376g\n
Dimension: 233 x 155 x 17 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781032072241\n \n