Expand your guitar knowledge with the Guitar Lesson Goldmine series! Featuring 100 individual modules covering a giant array of topics, each lesson in this Jazz volume includes detailed instruction with playing examples presented in standard notation and tablature. You'll also get extremely useful tips, scale diagrams, chord grids, photos and more to reinforce your learning experience, plus access to online recordings featuring performance demos of all the examples in the book! A huge variety of jazz guitar styles and techniques are covered, including: modes, arpeggios, basic comping, blues comping, turnaround improvisation, chord tones, tritone substitution, scale sequences, pentatonics, sus chords, polyphonic harmony, and much more! The audio files are accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be downloaded or streamed. They include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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Study the trademark songs, licks, tones, and techniques of jazz guitarist and bebop pioneer Charlie Christian. This comprehensive book and audio teaching method provides detailed analysis of Charlie's gear, style, and much more. You'll learn everything you need to know about his renowned guitar playing, focusing on his time with the legendary jazz clarinetist and bandleader Benny Goodman. Learn to Play like Charlie Christian today!
Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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Learn to improvise fluently over common jazz progressions. Learn to use simple source material, such as four-note “cells,” and characteristic bebop motifs to help you make fast progress towards “making the changes” while developing creative, flowing, balanced solos, in the bebop and post-bop styles exemplified by artists such as Charlie Parker, Joe Pass, and John Coltrane. You will explore many improvisation strategies, such as fingering guidelines, articulation (picking/legato, etc.), practice approaches, and more, and apply them to exercises and etudes.
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For the first time, the legendary Star Licks guitar instruction video series is being made available in book format with online access to the classic video footage, all of which has been digitally cleaned up and enhanced. All of the guitar tab from the original video booklets has been re-transcribed and edited using modern-day technology to provide you with the most accurate transcriptions ever created for this series.
One of the most influential jazz-rock guitarists of all time, Grammy-winner Larry Carlton puts his talent to work for you in two areas of specialization: Blues and Chord Substitution. The Blues section deals with imitation, theme development, extended phrasing, banding techniques, vibrato, and solo construction. In the Chord Substitution section, Larry explains his trademark triad approach, starting with basic chord substitution and leading to extended triad-on-triad usage. This is Larry's exciting fusion sound, spelled out, clarified, and made accessible to any guitarist! All examples are clearly illustrated with substantial musical phrases and improvised solos.
Exclusive live concert footage is provided throughout the video to demonstrate the use of Larry's examples in a live band situation. The accompanying instructional booklet comes complete with easy-to-follow diagrams that correspond exactly to the video lesson. For intermediate guitarists and beyond.
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Learn to use and understand advanced jazz harmony! This book reveals the post-bop jazz innovations established by such iconic jazz artists as John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Clare Fischer, Herbie Hancock, and Chick Corea, as taught at Berklee College of Music. You will learn techniques such as multitonic systems, the principles of non-functional pattern development, unusual use of deceptive motion and resolution of dominants, frequent modulation, use of specialized voicing techniques, and tension-driven melody/harmony relationships.
You will learn to: construct advanced jazz sonorities and contexts; build sophisticated, expressive melodies based on advancedchord progressions; understand how chord progressions relate to the psychology ofmusical expectation; articulate nuanced musical sensibilities for harmonicobscurity, surprise, and ambiguity; use characteristic post-bop conceptual approaches to harmonicprogressions, such as multitonic systems and the Axis System; create non-functional chord patterns, with depth and clearcontour; and more!
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Start playing jazz guitar! This book will help you understand and master the essential concepts and techniques of jazz, whatever style you may already know. You'll learn jazz theory and harmony through learning and practicing scales, diatonic seventh chords, and harmonic tensions. You will also learn to use chord and tension substitutions in order to give a jazz feel to any existing song. Accompanying online recordings demonstrate ideas and let you practice playing along with the author.
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The world of jazz improvisation can be complex and intimidating to navigate for beginning and intermediate players, and Running the Changes is the perfect solution for this problem. Renowned performer, arranger/composer, author, and educator Mike Steinel (University of North Texas) guides you through the essentials of improvising over chord changes, giving you a concise and thorough approach that's easy to comprehend, regardless of your instrument or voice.
Topics covered include: Melodic paraphrase and quotation; using riffs; basic chord theory; ornamentation; chord tone soloing; scalar/modal soloing; bebop scales; advanced soloing with color tones and altered harmonies; exploring pentatonic and hexatonic scales (triad pairs); history and practice of jazz, post-Bebop era to the present; and more. In addition, the book includes play-along tracks for you to use in your own practice sessions. These tracks cover all major parts in the ensemble, including charts for C, Bb, Eb, and bass clef instruments, along with lead sheets for vocalists.
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The Jazz Guitar Chord Gig Bag Book, with over 1000 jazz guitar chord voicings in tab format contained within, is an essential resource for jazz guitarists, whether they're amateurs looking to improve on their basic knowledge, or seasoned players looking for an invaluable reference guide. The handy and compact layout of this convenient chord book allows you to quickly and easily find the exact chord you are looking for. Included is a logical layout of the almost innumerable harmonic variations of each guitar chord, as well as the great reference system for substitutions and related chords. This makes the Jazz Guitar Chord Gig Bag Book absolutely essential for any guitarist looking to expand their harmonic horizons. Wire-bound.
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The legendary Hot Licks guitar instruction video series is being made available in book format with online access to all of the classic video footage. This re-transcribed and edited book includes guitar tab and new, accurate transcriptions. In this edition, ten-time Grammy Award® winner George Benson covers chord substitution, turnarounds, the Wes Montgomery style, and more. He demonstrates his signature scat-style singing on “This Masquerade” and soloing over the “On Broadway” vamp. It also includes several virtuoso solo jazz and blues guitar performances. The video is accessed online using the unique code found inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded.
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This bestselling classic book by jazz performer, teacher and bandleader Sal Salvador is a complete study of single string exercises for guitar, designed to build technique and control. This edition updated with tab features: scales and variations • technical exercises • chords and arpeggios • octaves • keyboard harmony.
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This definitive jazz guitar chord method by music legend Chuck Wayne shows guitarists how to arrive at each voicing and how to vary it, using Chuck's unique systematic approach. He covers: basic triads to open voiced harmony; generic and specific voicings; cross-reference recognition of equal tonalities; pick and fingers technique; and much more. A must for any serious guitar student!
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In this re-transcribed and edited book with online video, Pass demonstrates techniques that will benefit not only jazz guitarists but rock and blues players as well. Topics include chord melody, substitutions, leading tones, chromatic chords, voice movements, and many more special exercises. This is your chance to study with an absolute legend of jazz guitar! All the guitar tab from the original booklets is included and using modern-day technology to provide you with the most accurate transcriptions ever created for this series. Plus, we've included tab for examples that were previously not transcribed, providing you with the most comprehensive Hot Licks guitar lessons yet! Each book comes with a unique code used to access the cloud-based video footage from any type of device.
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Nearly 50 of Julian “Cannonball” Adderley's recorded solos fully transcribed exactly as he recorded them, including some articulations. Songs include: Ah-Leu-Cha • Blue Funk • Cannonball • Easy to Love (You'd Be So Easy to Love) • Fiddler on the Roof • Hi-Fly • I Remember You • Love for Sale • Milestones • Oleo • One for Daddy-O • People Will Say We're in Love • Porky • Sack of Woe • So What • Somethin' Else • Spectacular • Straight No Chaser • This Here • Waltz for Debby • Work Song • You Got It • and many more. Plastic comb binding.
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Study the trademark songs, licks, tones, and techniques of jazz guitar master Joe Pass. This comprehensive book and audio teaching method provides detailed analysis of Joe's gear, tone, techniques, styles, songs, licks, improvisations, and much more. You'll learn everything you need to know about Pass's legendary guitar playing, from his early 1960s recordings as a sideman to his ground-breaking solo jazz guitar albums and on to his many collaborations with artists like Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie. Includes 5 full songs: Blues for Basie • Meditation • Summertime • Tricrotism • and Yours Is My Heart Alone; plus excerpts of even more signature tunes. Book includes demo tracks and some full band tracks to help you learn and sound great while practicing.
Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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Jazz music forces guitarists to learn their fretboards. There is no getting around it. In all of its harmonic complexities and demands for virtuosity, there is no choice but to head on down the bumpy road to fretboard mastery. Enter Visual Improvisation for Jazz Guitar – a comprehensive practice method for understanding and commanding the fretboard. Through a system of visually connecting the shapes, patterns, and intervals of the fretboard, this book and audio pack will be your guide to fretboard freedom. Topics include: triads and seventh chords; altered chords and extensions; scales and arpeggios; licks and exercises; audio demonstrations; fretboard diagrams; and much more! The price of this book includes access to audio online, for download or streaming, using the unique code inside. Includes PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, pan left or right.
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