By Brett Wilmott
I have personally studied with the author of this book, Brett Wilmott, for a few semesters...all of which were his guitar labs at Berklee. His history includes studies and performances with Pat Metheny, Gary Burton, Mick Goodrick, Bill Frisell, and Jeff Berlin.
I would recommend this book to guitarists, piano players, composers/arrangers who already have a reasonable understanding of chord construction and harmonic theory. This book is just chalk full of ideas for comping on tunes and reharmonization possibilities. Here's an example....say you're playing a tune where the chord is C major 7...instead of playing the notes in C Major 7, why not play E minor 7? What you have done is substituted tension 9 for the root. That is just the tiniest glimpse as to the depth of this book...it talks about how to treat tensions on chords using various combinations...tensions, 9, 11, and 13, and the chord tones they can be substituted for, and the 4 note chord structures you can substitute over existing chords to yield these tensions.
If you're a guitar player and you've had to read through difficult jazz charts where each chord has about 3 different tensions on it...this is the book for you. If you're a composer and you're looking for a way of colouring your voicings in your song...this is also a great tool.
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