Masterclass
The Improv Style of Bud Powell for Guitar
About this masterclass
Mike Godette adapts the bebop language of piano legend Bud Powell for guitar, with 12 licks transcribed from Powell's solos — another installment in Mike's improv style series. Each lick is broken down and analyzed, with the fingerings and articulations that help that pianistic sound translate to the fretboard.
What's covered
- Six major ii–V–I licks and two minor ii–V–I licks, including a line from the bridge of Cherokee
- A turnaround lick, a chromatic triad pattern, a suspended dominant seventh idea, and an intervallic major lick
- Analysis of the harmonic devices at play: delayed resolutions, tritone substitutions, chromatic approach tones, and altered tensions
- Targeting the V chord early over the ii chord — a core bebop habit Powell uses constantly
- Picking, hammer-ons, pull-offs, and slides chosen to capture Powell's articulation on guitar
A strong fit for intermediate to advanced jazz guitarists looking to expand their bebop vocabulary with vocabulary straight from Powell's keyboard.
Running time: 53 minutes. 4 pages of PDF included (with TAB).
Lessons in this masterclass
Lessons
- 1Improv Style of Bud Powell for Guitar Full Class + Download
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Mike Godette is a guitarist and teacher out of the Southern Connecticut area. He received a BM in Jazz Studies from Western Connecticut State University with a focus on jazz guitar and has taught guitar for the past 16 years. Mike has always had a very wide range of musical influences and his playing is a unique blend of instrumentalist and composers such as Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Stitt, Herbie Hancock, Booker Little, John Coltrane, Clifford Brown, Scott Henderson, Allan Holdsworth, John Scofield, Wes Montgomery, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Burt Bacharach & Brian Wilson. In addition to teaching, Mike also maintains an active youtube channel and performs regularly as a leader and sideman throughout the CT/NY area. He has played with artists such as Aaron Goldberg, Jimmy Greene, Gerald Veasley, John Stowell, and Myron Walden.