Carisch Fanen Pierre - Guitare Blues & Rock'n'roll + CD
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Essential Information About This Method
Essential Information About This Method
- A comprehensive approach to building blues and rock improvisations based on essential chords and scales.
- Progressive work on pentatonic, blues, major and minor scales, as well as more advanced colors (diminished, whole tone).
- Application pieces to immediately move from theory to playing in a musical context.
- An included CD with all licks and pieces, plus playbacks for practicing with accompaniment.
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Summary of This Method
Designed to help you improvise with style and coherence, this method gathers the essential "ingredients" of blues and rock improvisation. It offers structured work around chords and scales, linking harmony (what happens in the accompaniment) to your note choices (what you play in solo). The goal is clear: to build solid, musical improvisations adapted to the context, rather than stringing together licks at random.
The content highlights the most used scales in these styles, notably the pentatonic and blues scales, connecting them to major and minor colors to vary intention and character. The method also opens the door to more tense and expressive sounds through exploration of the diminished scale and whole tone "games," useful for creating effects, tension buildups, and more modern transitions.
To anchor the concepts, application pieces punctuate the learning process. They allow work on chorus construction, rhythmic placement, phrase logic, and how to develop an idea over measures. The included CD is a real asset for effective progress: it gathers all the licks and pieces, and offers versions with playbacks to practice with accompaniment, develop listening skills, timing, and sense of groove.
Technical specifications
| Musical Genre | Jazz, Blues, Soul | Publication | Sheet music |
| Genre | Blues and rock improvisation method | ||
Questions frequently asked
Does the included CD contain playbacks for practicing improvisation?
The CD features the licks and tracks from the method, with playback versions allowing to play along with accompaniment.
Which scales are studied in this blues and rock method?
The learning is based on pentatonic scales and the blues scale. Major and minor tonal colors are also covered. The diminished scale and whole tone patterns complete the content to work on tensions and transitions.
Does this method help link chords to solo notes?
The work is structured around chords and scales to connect the harmony of the accompaniment with the choice of notes played in the solo.
Can the construction of a chorus be practiced with Pierre Fanen's book?
Application pieces allow practicing the construction of a chorus and the logic of phrases. Rhythmic placement as well as the development of an idea over measures are among the focus areas.
Are diminished and whole tone sounds included?
The exploration of the diminished scale and whole tone patterns is planned to create effects, build tension, and achieve more modern transitions.



