The most modern, complete, and musical approach for the serious guitar student. Covers music theory, scales, modes, chord voicings, arpeggios, soloing, and comping. Over 180 music examples and 16 complete solos in the styles of many jazz greats are used to place all concepts into a practical musical context.
Provides exercises for jazz guitar techniques, including jazz riffs, breaks, fill-ins, and solos.
Spanning from the major scale and basic triad theory all the way up to extended chords and the modes, this book features a full-length etude or song to go with every new concept introduced.
Play Ex. 3-30 (CD1 Track #85), the first three bars of Duke Pearson's “Jeannine”. Ex. 3-30 Duke Pearson's “Jeannine” If you try to voice it in drop 2 using diminished chords to harmonize the non chord tones (the F's), it just doesn't ...
Jazz Guitar Styles is an instruction book designed for the guitarist who already knows the fundamentals but wishes to explore the "classic" style of swing-era guitar.
Written for the intermediate to advanced jazz guitarist, this book assumes an adequate knowledge of chord scales and jazz theory.
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The CD demonstrates the examples in the book and provides play-along opportunities. 48 pages.
(Guitar Collection). If you're new to jazz guitar, you are probably eager to learn some songs. This book provides chord-melody style arrangements in standard notation and tab for the most popular songs jazz guitarists like to play.
Undoubtedly, this book is a great addition to jazz guitar canon and is easily a must-have for every aspiring jazz musician who is serious about out great American art form."
This is the guitarist's guide to music of the masters of classic jazz.