Kurt Rosenwinkel Guide Tones Concept (Jazz Guitar Lesson 94) 

Here is the Gdańsk clinic video on the use of 3rds and 7ths on B&S. Good stuff, this! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8dFrKzPTEMg.html

I dug this, great food for thought. Also especially liked you did it all in one go and dared to figure stuff out on the spot.

Great stuff! When the melody note is one of the guide tones I often play the other guide tone on the fifth or the sixth string. It is surprising how your ear fills in the rest. It is something about having more than an octave between the two notes, kinda like when you play tenths. Also they are pretty easy to finger so you can do it quickly if you need to.

Great content...the simpler the better..just like italian cooking...I saw that clinic with Kurt Rosenwinkel too and it amazed me...and also Bill Frisell's statement that sometimes just the root is enough with the melody... kind regards from Germany

That video of the masterclass was inspiring!

Another great lesson, clearly presented. Thanks very much.

Nice video! I’ve been thinking a lot about this recently, not really from the Kurt perspective but because Lage Lund and Pasquale Grasso use very similar types of shell intervals. I think in the latter case it relates to Bud Powell’s left hand shell voicings. I’ve heard Barry Harris play them too....

Really enjoy watching your videos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and process. Very honest!

👍👍I love those spread voicings! A great tune I like to use for Voice leading practice is "Two for the road", the harmony is fundamentally straightforward and simultaneously very rich.

Thanks Joshua

Great lesson, Mikko. very useful stuff.

Awesome. I save this for deeper study.

Wonderful.Thanks for sharing.

Great lesson...for my favorite tunes!

I think that the advice to use guide tones (3rds and 7ths) may be of use to beginning improvisers who otherwise might just play roots and 5ths. The advice given to a beginner isn’t necessarily appropriate to an intermediate player, however. An intermediate player should put guide tones aside and concentrate on developing skills in voice leading. At one point, I thought improvisation meant the ability to throw in a reharm on the fly (that is, I would get to the point where I picked the right color chord for that moment). Working out voice leading for a song seemed like just making something to fall back on in case I couldn’t think of something better. I now see things differently. Working out voice leading for different songs results in skills that are transferable to other songs, and that results in a more coherent solo.

Thanks, Mikko - outstanding lesson! I really like the M7 thing, but I haven't thought of using them this way. Lots of new things to try. I would LOVE to see you follow up on your "too excited" part on adding contrary motion that you alluded to near the end.

rosenwinkel is musical first. jazzy second. what he does sounds simple. but its fluid. and beautiful. he meanders in and out of harmonic ideas one should weep over.

beautiful playing mikko!

Godin guitars from Canada 🇨🇦 as well :) my teacher Ralf Buschmeyer studied with Lorne Lofsky in Ontario.

Excellent thank you! Love your videos. Check out Jimmy Raney’s Just Friends from the album Momentum. He illustrates a lot of the points you make here. His three note voice leading using ninths has taught me a whole new level of voice leading. I never fully appreciated all the extensions until I started looking at them for their functions in voice leading.

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Voice leading! makes every wrong chord sound right

great guidetone lesson pls consider doing an 「pensativa」episode

When I encounter a melody note that is a guide tone I often play the other guide tone an octave down to give space and harmonic context\ clarity.

thinking in consequent numbers(of inherent intevals) is very close to Bach(or Haendel). recently I found sketches of Bach what he used, the so called cifered bass, befor composing he made harmonic practices where certain intervals were isolated, no different than what you did...

Hey, what are you plugged into? Great tone! Lots of reverb? Delay?

I definitely didn't agree with many things in this video. I don't think Kurt's purpose of this exercise was that of breaking the rules of "not playing the root" or "always play the 3rd and 7th of the chord". Those rules indeed do not apply to solo guitar playing, which is where kurt is applying this exercise. I think the idea behind this exercise is that by dividing each chord into two parts (1,7 and 3,5) you can have a more counterpoint-based approach to comping and a more organ-sound in it, but more importantly you can get to know the tune a lot better than you normally would do, exploring the changes in each section of the instruments. In the clinic Kurt says that many people who think they know a certain standard don't know it at all, and then he explains some of his exercises through which he gets to understand the standards to his level.

Ed bickert, Lorne lofsky Lenny breau, they're all Canadian for some reason 🇨🇦lol