วิเคราห์ A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF WES MONTGOMERY’S, PETER BERNSTEIN’S AND MIKE MORENO’S IMPROVISATION ON AIREGIN

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Abstract

This research presented herein is a Comparative Analysis of Wes Montgomery’s, Peter Bernstein’s and Mike Moreno’s Improvisations on “Airegin”, concentrating on area of rhythmics and melodic patterns, harmonies, usage of scales and other important musical elements. Research in rhythm part Moreno and Bernstein used various rhythmic densities while Montgomery used repeated rhythmic development melodic patterns. Melodic patterns part Bernstein has a wide range of extended notes from overlapping triad chords, corresponding to Moreno with a longer melody in a stepdown direction, Montgomery with a more melodic note emphasizing chord tones in falling rhythm connect by chromatic note. For harmony part, Bernstein's melodic harmonies form a melody by incorporating various forms of chords, Montgomery presents in the octave. For scale part, we found the introduction of the Dorian scale that all 3 guitarists used to create a melody. Moreno uses the melodic minor scale. Like Bernstein, it was also found that additional scales were used. harmonic minor and the major scale. The other parts of Moreno used semi-hollow guitar with guitar effect, while Montgomery and Bernstein had hollow guitars in which Montgomery uses with his right thumb in playing the guitar’s string. Unlike Bernstein and Moreno use pick guitar.