Modal Voicing Techniques for Guitar (book/Audio Online)

Publisher: Berklee Press
Traditional notation, tablature, and chord grids are included
Series: Berklee Guitar


Berklee Professor of Guitar Rick Peckham unlocks the mysteries of modal tonality, with a series of exercises that will expand your chord vocabulary, capturing the signature sounds of groups led by Miles Davis, John Coltrane, as well as contemporary jazz, pop, and R&B artists.
Peckham will show you how to extend your capabilities by integrating a variety of new voicings and chordal phrasing into your playing. Going beyond single chord vamps, this approach allows you to play through simple and complex chord progressions using these modern sounds.

You will learn to:
• Create chords based on modes, using them as a source of melodic and chordal material and as a way to define form
• Develop chords from diatonic fourths, and explore how they function
• Embellish chords using both diatonic and chromatic material
• Explore rich jazz harmonies such as altered chords, minor 7%5, dominant 7sus, and diminished 7
• Add modal harmony to standard progressions
• Combine and use various major and minor scales and modes, as well as lesser-known scales (such as the gospel scale and composite blues scale), to create harmonies
• Harmonize pentatonic scales, using 7- and 8-note scales for  harmonic texture


Includes video lessons from Peckham and also includes some audio examples. All media is accessed online for download or streaming using the unique code in each book. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.