Never come across this before...... however I picked up a "learn to play guitar" magazine/book that was in the supermarket and it said about these two types of playing.......
And Apparently if I remember this right
Horizontal playing - Means that you improvised within chord tones
Vertical playing - Means you improvise with scales of the key
Has anyone come across this before because I had never heard that....
together we stand, divided we fall..........
It's a term I have heard flying around on YouTube videos, and I got the impression it meant the same as you said :D
"I like to play that guitar. I have to stare at it while I'm playing it because I'm not very good at playing it."
Noel Gallagher (who took the words right out of my mouth)
You're remembering it a bit backwards...
Horizontal refers to the melodic line, and vertical to the chords - in standard notation, the notes of a chord appear vertically.
So vertical improvisation is using arpeggios of the chords, and horizontal improv uses the scales.
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Yes, Vertical Improvisation refers to Arpeggios and Horizontal refers to Scale improvisation.
Woops - well I just saw it in a guitar magazine in a shop :lol: That makes a lot of sense now that you mentioned the music. At least I didn't say it was diagonal improvisation.
together we stand, divided we fall..........
At least I didn't say it was diagonal improvisation.
That's actually how I think of Django's playing - improvising diagonally on the fretboard :)
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