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    THE CROSSROADS

    May 03, 2023 5 minutes

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    New York based Norwegian guitarist Lage Lund was awarded the prestigious Theolonius Monk International Jazz Guitarist award in 2005. And from that moment to this he has carved a remarkably successful career as both bandleader and in-demand sideman, with an ever growing portfolio of album releases to his name. Lund’s playing is both beautiful and complex. He expertly balances a cerebral approach to music with a heartfelt emotional intensity, but never without a lyrical and expressive quality to his sound.

    TECHNIQUE FOCUS

    Melodic Material From Chord Shapes

    A simple but effective conceptual approach you can adopt is to generate lines explicitly from chord forms. Guitarists from Django all the way up to Lage have used this device to generate motifs and melodic patterns that are clearly derived from

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