Lee Ritenour

thumb|Lee Ritenour in 2009 Lee Mack Ritenour (born January 11, 1952) is an American jazz guitarist who has recorded over 42 albums, appeared on over 3000 sessions, and has charted over 30 instrumental and vocal contemporary jazz hits since 1976. Quotes I'm constantly thinking melodies. Now, to add interest to those melodies, obviously you have to know what things can be superimposed over a chord, and I will think of extended arpeggios and the upper estensions. If I'm playing very vertically, I will invariably start to include certaing passing notes which imply certain scales -- like a melodic minor scale against a C minor chord, or diminished scales, something like that. But I'm not thinking of a scale at that specific moment. I'm thinking of the notes as surrounding that chord -- because I know how each of the twelve notes in music sound against a C minor seventh, for instance. Denyer Ralph The Guitar Handbook 2002 114 0-679-74275-1 External links Category:1952 births Category:Living people Category:Guitarists from the United States Category:Composers from the United States Category:Producers from the United States Category:Singers from the United States Category:People from Los Angeles Category:Jazz musicians