Strechin' with Larry Coryell Playing Example 1
Watch and see how Larry weaves together chords and single lines in this blues chorus. He draws on pentatonic ideas, quadruple stops, diminishe...
Improvisation 10
Charlie Parker (Bird) Concept Improvisation Example 3
Here is another example of the Charlie Parker concept discussed and taught be Larry Coryell. He plays some really hip (cool) rhythms he...
Strechin' with Larry Coryell Playing Example 4
In this video watch and learn from jazz legend Larry Coryell, the "Godfather of Fusion," as he plays 3 choruses of an F blues where he demonst...
McCoy Tyner style chord voicings - Let's see how Larry uses chords voicings based on fourths, typical of the great jazz pianist McCoy Tyner. Larry also effectively uses bass note pedals to c...
Strechin' with Larry Coryell Playing Example 5
Let's watch and learn again from jazz legend Larry Coryell, the "Godfather of Fusion," as he plays 3 choruses of a C minor blues where he demo...
Choice Licks 4 Slow and Regular
Here is a cool jazz guitar lick from Armen Mosvesyan's TAGA Publishing course entitled "Jazzify" Your Blues. Look at the PDF below.
Diminished Whole Tone Scale
In this video Larry demonstrates the Diminished Whole Tone Scale starting from A. This is also known as the altered scale, or as Larry says, it's a little like s...
2 5 Phrase
In this 2 5 Phrase, Larry combines slight chromaticism with a simple C major scale to negotiate the changes. An effective way to negotiate the changes is to outline the 3rd's an...
3 6 2 5 Phrases
Here Larry demonstrates 3 6 2 5 Phrases. He outlines the changes with some standard idiomatic phrases. Larry uses the chords as spacing for the phrasing of his lines to giv...
Using F Major Over a D Minor Chord
F major over D minor - In this video, Larry shows how it's possible to use an F major scale to play over D minor. He first uses an F lydian scale starting...