Polytonality for jazz guitar could be the ideal breakthrough you’ve been looking for if you feel like the standard scales and arpeggios are limiting your sound
Sebastian Inverni’s Trinity Tonal eBook explores the exciting world of polytonality and melodic permutations for guitar in a very practical way. Ideas are derived from mathematical symmetry, Fibonacci sequences and geometry which allows you to approach topics such as improvisation, melodic development and harmonic colour in a completely new wy.
What is the Tonal Trinity?
Tonal Trinity is polytonality in action in a very practical, playable and deeply musical way. Polytonal colours are heard in music from jazz giants such as John Coltrane, Ben Monder and many more modern jazz players.
The central idea of the tonal trinity is that you are approaching harmony and lines from three tonal centres a major third apart, not as different keys but as a larger super-scale structure that is a unique harmonic structure in and of itself.
Obviously such an approach, polytonality for jazz guitar which weaves together three tonalities, results in brilliant new harmonic colour.
Melodic Permutations for Creative Flow
Melodic permutations are another key concept of this book. The concept is simple, you take a note group like C-D-E-G and you rearrange them to create fresh new phrases. You can derive radically different melodic contours by using permutations, inversions and by playing retrograde. The resulting new patterns will sound fresh and will help you break out of scale-based playing.
Why Polytonality for Jazz Guitar Matters
All beginning jazz guitarists learn basic ii-V-I lines and chord voicing and find it difficult to progress from there. Trinity Tonal guides the student to a new advanced approach that delivers melodic independence, intervallic awareness, polytonal fluency and much more. By diving into Trinity tonal you will think and hear differently, thereby creating your own melodic and harmonic playing style.
This book on polytonality for jazz guitar will open up new doors for new sounds on your guitar. So whether you are composing, improvising or arranging for solo guitar this material will give you a much, much wider tonal palette and sharpen your musical instincts.
Want to dive deeper into polytonality for guitar? Read more about Sebastian’s course here.
More Books and Courses by Sebastian Inverni
Here are more intermediate and advanced books and courses by Sebastian Inverni which you will like.
- Quartal and Quintal Harmony for Guitarists eBook
- Decreased and Increased Altered and Diminished Sounds eBook
- How to Master Decreased and Increased Altered and Diminished Sounds Course
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Gilbert Isbin’s course How to Master Two-Part Modern Counterpoint course also contains some information about bitonality and polytonality.
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