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Article: Monk on guitar. (exercises for creating accented seconds and tension in guitar playing in the style of Thelonius Monk)(Sessions)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
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- Guitar Player
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- September 1, 1997
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THELONIOUS MONK ON GUITAR! SOME SAY IT CAN'T be done, but I've been working at it for almost 20 years and have learned more from this process than from all my music college education. The point isn't necessarily to sound like Monk, but to introduce distinctly non-guitar concepts and techniques into your playing, thus making your voice that much more individual. And if there's one thing we can agree on about Monk, it's that he was quintessentially individual.
Accented seconds. We usually think of a solo's notes as having various degrees of tension.This tension is created by the relationship between a given note and its accompanying chord: C[natural] against a C ...