Jazz Guitar

Featuring in-depth lessons and 40 great jazz classics, the Hal Leonard Jazz Guitar Method is your complete guide to learning jazz guitar. This book uses real jazz songs to teach you the basics of accompanying and improvising jazz guitar in the style of Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, Tal Farlow, Charlie Christian, Jim Hall and many others. Lesson topics include: chords and progressions; scales and licks; comping and soloing styles; chord-melody; intros and endings; technique; equipment and sound; and more! Songs include: Satin Doll • Take the A Train • Billie's Bounce • Impressions • Bluesette • My One and Only Love • Desafinado • Autumn Leaves • Watch What Happens • Misty • Song for My Father • and more. The CD contains 99 tracks for demonstration and play-along. Highly Recommended. - Just Jazz Guitar Filled with well-written examples ... bask in the glory of having a lot of great material at your fingertips. - Downbeat

This book/CD pack will get guitarists playing lead & rhythm anywhere on the fretboard, in any key! It teaches a variety of lead guitar styles using moveable patterns, double-note licks, sliding pentatonics and more, through easy-to-follow diagrams and instructions for beginning, intermediate and advanced players. The CD includes 54 full-demo tracks.

Melodies based on triads and melodic extensions sound more natural and musical than ones developed exclusively from scales. Triads - the fundamental building blocks of harmony - are a simple and effective remedy for scale dependency in improvisation. In Jazz Improvisation for Guitar: A Melodic Approach, explore the potential of triads and their melodic extensions and learn to connect them using guide tones. You'll learn to create solo phrases in the style of some of the world's finest jazz guitarists like Wes Montgomery, George Benson, Grant Green, Kenny Burrell, and Pat Martino.

Ever wanted to play like a famous guitarist? Now's your chance! This entertaining and accessible guide to emulating the legends features: notation for more than 65 classic riffs from Stairway to Heaven to Smells like Teen Spirit • clear, step-by-step annotated photographs showing how to play each riff • full-color features on more than 30 artists, their guitars, and equipment • hints and tips from expert musicians. Color photos throughout the 256 pages of this book!

Take your playing beyond barre chords and the blues box! This book/CD pack is ideal for the rock guitarist who is interested in expanding boundaries and exploring new musical paths. Ten chapters will take you through the essentials of the jazz idiom with plenty of exercises and examples - all of which are demonstrated on the accompanying CD.

Książka została napisana z myślą o muzykach zainteresowanych nabyciem mocnej podstawy do gry jazzu. Publikacja zawiera ponad 800 zagrywek gitarowych w stylu gry takich muzyków, jak: Tal Farlow, Pat Martino, Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, Johnny Smith i wielu innych. Dodatkowo do książki dołączona jest płyta CD zawierająca wersje demonstracyjne zawartych w książkach ćwiczeń i solówek.

Ruchoma linia basu występuje w muzyce jazzowej i w fingerstyle'u. W muzyce jazzowej (o czym traktuje ta książka) polega ona na jednoczesnym zapewnieniu ciągłości linii basu jako osobnego głosu, i wypełnienia harmonicznego. Najlepsi muzycy, tacy jak np. Martin Taylor, potrafią w te dwa głosy wpleść jeszcze melodię a nieraz i improwizację. Do publikacji dołączono płytę CD z nagraniami wszystkich przykładów w dwóch prędkościach oraz z akompaniamentami.