George Garzone: Random Triadic Approach, Jazz/Fusion Guitar Lesson. Outside Legato Lick Analysed!

[@0ptimus]

Thx for this analysis. Great to add this to the vocabulary.

[@CharlesHarrisonMusicTuition]

Check out my full guitarist's guide to Garzone's approach on my channel. Cheers for your kind words!

[@epserps5055]

This is a complete and fantastic new way of thinking and feeling music.Thank you so much.

[@CharlesHarrisonMusicTuition]

Thank you for your contribution, as always! Hope this could help you, George is a monster player, cheers

[@georgesember9069]

Great session!

[@CharlesHarrisonMusicTuition]

Thanks George! Feel free to request any future content, it really helps me out, cheers

[@theblarneystone5125]

One thing that I’ve had to take serious note of when it comes to his ideas is the sound of a tenor saxophone versus the tone of a guitar. You can play the exact same line he plays on saxophone on the guitar and it’s just a different delivery. When I have managed to get something to sound very outside (in the Garzone sense) on the guitar it may or may not have the same effect on a saxophone for example. I’m finding that I have to make note choice adjustments that factor in the sound of the instrument itself.

[@CharlesHarrisonMusicTuition]

I suppose it depends on what you're aiming for. Guys like Bryan Baker and Chris Crocco use a very angular almost 'Krantz'-esque tonal model. Whereas I aim for a more Holdsworth, Miller model. Garzone discusses "the lightest tongue known to man" and this is the cue I personally use. All of those guys are very different to players such as Wayne Shorter though and the language is very different to match that tonal aesthetic. Cheers!

[@LaurenceGuitar]

great vid!

[@CharlesHarrisonMusicTuition]

Cheers dude!

[@gabarton2011]

Using this concept, are you picking randomly whether the triad is minor, major etc ?

[@CharlesHarrisonMusicTuition]

Exactly. Play the notes of any triad in any order. Build another triad a half step above or below the previous triad's last note. That's essentially all there is to it. If they are the same type of triad, 2 major triads in a row for example, be sure to shuffle the order of the notes of the second major triad to avoid patterns occurring. Hope that's clear! Cheers

[@EmilianoBez]

Great video man, I like Garzone a lot. What about a video over Dave Liebman's chromatic approach?

[@CharlesHarrisonMusicTuition]

Thank you Emiliano! I will look into this, really appreciate the suggestion! What are you currently working on in your routine? Cheers again.

[@EmilianoBez]

@@CharlesHarrisonMusicTuition sorry I missed this comment ahah. I'm practicing a lot side slip tecniche and tritone superimpositions extended (example: play Ab-7 over D-7) and so on... ;)

[@CharlesHarrisonMusicTuition]

@@EmilianoBez No worries! Absolutely killer stuff man. Check out the 'Funk Zone' garçon dvd if you haven't already. It's all about shifting pentatonics, very cool!

[@EmilianoBez]

@@CharlesHarrisonMusicTuition firstly I want to understand deeply TCA in my practice routine. Another interesting approach I'm still working is the transition from a tonal playing to a more complex chromatic superimpositions in the same solo. A lot of work ahaha.... XD

[@CharlesHarrisonMusicTuition]

@@EmilianoBez It's a very open-ended journey! I've only just really started to get to grips with improvising fluently using TCA and I've been experimenting with it for a few years now. Check out my most recent video on the Garzone approach for a few shortcuts I figured out along the way. Good luck with it all!

[@Racosz]

Which music engraving software do you use? It looks very good. Excellent lesson btw. Greetings from Bogotá, Colombia.

[@CharlesHarrisonMusicTuition]

I've been using Guitar Pro recently. Much better for guitar than Sibelius which I was using before! Cheers

[@youngandrew66]

Incidentally, I love gear demos where the guy says 'you can even play jazz on this..' (strums a minor 7 chord then quickly goes back to the rock)

[@CharlesHarrisonMusicTuition]

You've hit the nail on the head there! It can be very frustrating when wonderful guitars aren't get given the chance to shine in different genres. I'm delighted you took the time to comment, cheers dude!

[@mrkrud]

There definitely needs to be a call to arms for any Hippopotamus out there to invade the realm of Konnokol

[@CharlesHarrisonMusicTuition]

Fantastic! I have looked into Konnokol in the past but you just can't beat a Hippopotamus ;)

[@youngandrew66]

It's random but it isn't... Christ. The jazz paradox: 'sounds like some old guys playing any old shit'.. Yes exactly.. Now You do it. Not so easy hey metal boy?!

[@CharlesHarrisonMusicTuition]

Couldn't agree more, certainly not easy at all. George is definitely one of the greats! Cheers for taking the time to comment, really appreciate it

[@OM-md6ki]

Is the accent making him pronounce everything pretentiously?

[@CharlesHarrisonMusicTuition]

No it's not the accent, it's my pretence. Cheers for the comment!