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Antreas Yerolatsitis

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Name: Antreas Yerolatsitis Main Subject: Jazz Guitar Research Coach: Jarmo Hoogendijk Title of Research: Michael Brecker out playing analysis Research Question: What are the ways and formulas that Michael Brecker uses to play out of the harmonic information of a certain chord or chord progression and how can I adopt them in my own improvisation. Summary of Results: Michael Brecker as jazz saxophonist is well known for his abilities to improvise over different styles of jazz with wide musical chops. He is able to improvise melodically and technically, in a way that keeps the listener interested in his soloing built up and direction. Already, from his first years on the jazz music scene, he showed himself to be a player with identity in his sound and a style of playing that is almost impossible to be confused with that of other saxophone players. For my research report, I focused on researching the “Michael Brecker out playing”, which is certainly one of his strongest and more characteristic chops emerging from his improvisations. The way I chose to examine the ways he does this is by transcribing two of his improvisations in modal and wide harmonically compositions. I focused on the out playing fragments from his improvisation and I tried to classify them into five specific categories. Those categories clearly show and explain the concept behind the harmonic movement that he chose to improvise on. During my research progress, I understood in depth how Brecker approaches the out playing technique in his solos. I gained very interesting and useful ideas on how I can enrich my improvisations with these techniques and transform my playing in a more interesting and sophisticated way. I tried to use the same fragments at first and subsequently find my own musical phrases/lines or sequences based on the Brecker methods. My presentation will include some of the examples from my transcriptions accompanied by actual parts from his solos from the recordings. Finally, I will present my final result by improvising with a live performance and with a prepared solo that will include all the techniques that I discovered, analyzed and adopted during my research work. Biography: Antreas Yerolatsitis is a Cypriot Jazz Guitar player. He was born in 1988 in Nicosia, Cyprus.At the age of 6 he started classical piano lessons in a music school in Nicosia, that was in a collaboration with the London's Royal School of Music. At the age of 15, he had his first guitar studies, also classical. From the age of 16 - 20 he had rock/blues guitar and modern music theory lessons. In that period he played rock/pop music with different bands in Cyprus in weekly basis. In 2009 he started his studies at the Royal Conservatoire.

type	research exposition
date	01/01/2015
published	28/05/2015
last modified	28/05/2015
status	limited publication
share status	private
license	All rights reserved
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/135569/135570
published in	KC Research Portal
portal issue	3. Internal publication

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