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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Boogie woogie music is one of the greatest influences on the blues, swing jazz and rock 'n' roll. The style is usually identified more with the piano than the guitar; however, boogie woogie actually seems to have originated with guitar players during the latter half of the 19th century in the rough “barrel houses” of the turpentine and lumber camps of the American South. Now with this book and video pack, trace the history of boogie woogie guitar with blues historian Dave Rubin and learn how to play the essential patterns that influenced generations of musicians. Features video lessons with demonstrations of every music example in the book!
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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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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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Using instructional text and actual songs, author Kenny Sultan covers blues in five different keys and positions and shows how they can be adapted to any key. Along with the basic blues rhythms and leads, fingerstyle blues is covered, using both an alternating and monotone bass. Sultan also touches on the specific techniques of various well-known players, open tuning, and bottleneck guitar. The accompanying CD includes each example and every song, most of which are played both in slow speed and at regular tempo.
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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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Born and raised in Norway, Jostein Gulbrandsen has lived in New York City since 2001, where he is an active performer leading his own trio and quartet. He has recorded two albums, Twelve and Release of Tension. Through a blend of European, American Jazz and fusion, he has developed a unique style that is both melodic and harmonically rich. In this book he will teach you to play: lines over dominant seventh chords; lines over minor seventh chords; lines over major seventh chords; major ii-V-I lines; minor ii-V-I lines; lines over modern jazz chord progressions; motifs; comping and voice-leading; lines by influential guitarists; and more. You'll also learn to play five jazz standards, including: Invitation • On Green Dolphin Street • Someday My Prince Will Come • Stella by Starlight • St. Thomas. The book includes online access to video demonstrations, for download or streaming, of each example.
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Delve deep into the world of jazz guitar with this book of 10 extended lessons from master guitarist Sean McGowan. You'll learn vocabulary for soloing over essential jazz forms like the 12-bar blues and rhythm changes, as well as virtually any chord progression you encounter. You'll acquire a broad palette of chord voicings, along with the rhythmic ideas for smart comping. And you'll absorb techniques for playing everything cleanly and efficiently – not just for jazz but any style. Lessons include audio downloads and videos, as well as standard notation and tablature, for all examples.
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If you're a guitarist who's learned the pentatonic scale up and down the neck but still asks, “During a solo, how do I know what to play and when to play it?”, then this book is for you. Its goal is to give you a variety of great blues licks that you can put together bar by bar to create a complete blues solo. Covers: the 12-bar blues progression, cool riffs, complete solos and more. The included audio features “Music Minus Me” tracks that let you play along as the featured soloist.
The price of this book includes a unique code that provides access to audio tracks online, for download or streaming. The tracks 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 – available exclusively from Hal Leonard.
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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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Master the rich and varied world of mainstream jazz guitar. These 47 lessons and etudes present a comprehensive course of study to facilitate rapid progress with harmonic sensibility, fingerboard scholarship, essential repertoire, and stylistic nuance. These gorgeous, performance-quality etudes are rooted in the timeless jazz swing tradition, for solo, duet, and soloing over ensemble. The accompanying online recording demonstrates performances of the etudes. Traditional notation and tablature are included.
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The world of solo jazz guitar is as vast and limitless as your imagination. “Chord-melody” style harmonizes a song's melodies and solos with full chord voicings and puts every facet of a guitarist's abilities to the test. This book introduces intermediate and advanced players to the chord-melody style. It teaches the requisite skills needed to play and create original arrangements, basic chord forms and inversions, chord substitutions, walking bass lines, and other tricks of the trade. The accompanying CD features recorded demos of the exercises and chord-melody arrangements in the book. Includes eight solo arrangements of: Alfie • Call Me Irresponsible • Come Fly with Me • Come Rain or Come Shine • Misty • My Favorite Things • My Romance • Take the “A” Train.
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Develop a fingerboard facility that fuses the great navigational conception of the classical guitar tradition with the improvisational, on-the-fly, solo content/language of the modern jazz guitarist, to create an overall fingerboard concept that is flexible and rich. The result is a comprehensive approach to the guitar fingerboard that combines vertical orientations mixed with side-to-side and diagonal phrasing. Each Bach/bebop pair of arrangements presents similar fingering concepts so that you can see how they are applicable across styles. This will ultimately lead to a continuity in fingering concepts that you can apply to all guitar traditions. The accompanying online recordings include demonstration and play-along tracks, including guitar duets and jazz combos. Traditional fingering and tablature included.
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This totally tubular book/CD pack gives you all the tools to play convincing surf guitar, covering concepts, techniques, equipment and even surf slang! At the core of the book are six original surf songs by The Torquays, one of the best retro surf bands around. You can play along with these six tunes on the accompanying CD, and for each one, the book includes a transcription, lesson and analysis. With chapters on surf guitar gods like Dick Dale and The Ventures, this book is a must-have for beginning to advanced players! Includes tab.
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To become fluent in the language of jazz and music in general, musicians must develop equality of all twelve keys. The goal of this book is not only to provide a reference for learning chord fingerings, but to offer a daily practice routine to increase the guitarist's vocabulary of chords. This book will provide a clear cut path to learning all the inversions of seventh chords by using the two main building blocks of jazz harmony: major and minor ii-V-I chord progressions. The accompanying tracks include backup audio to 10 jazz standards to allow guitarists to apply their new chord vocabulary.
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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In this book/online audio pack, Dale Turner, the West Coast Editor of GuitarOne magazine, teaches invaluable intros, endings and turnarounds that all the pros know and use, in jazz, blues, rock and country styles. The book includes examples in standard notation and tab, and the online audio features 99 demonstration tracks available for streaming or download using the unique code printed inside the book.
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Chicken Pickin' provides a “bird's-eye-view” of this quintessential country style, teaching the techniques and licks common to playing hot lead guitar! It covers: open-string licks, double-stop licks, scales, string bending, repetitive sequences, chromatic licks and much more. The book includes standard notation and tab, and the accompanying audio features 99 demonstration tracks, with each lick in the book performed at two tempos.
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Develop your solo skills with this comprehensive method with online audio of 99 full demonstration tracks, plus 16 video lessons available online for download or streaming. Topics covered include: common jazz phrases; applying scales and arpeggios; common jazz phrases; guide tones, non-chordal tones, fourths; and more. Includes standard notation and tablature. The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each 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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This Centerstream book/CD pack is essential for anyone interested in expanding melodic concepts on the guitar. Author Greg Cooper covers: picking exercises; major, minor, dominant and altered lines; blues and jazz turn-arounds; and more.
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With an emphasis on the essentials of blues, instructor/host Dave Celentano provides clear and valuable insight for playing great blues guitar. This hour-long DVD teaches: the “blues boxes” for soloing; one-chord blues rhythm with lead fills; 12-bar blues chord progressions; turnarounds, intros & endings; major and minor blues soloing; straight and shuffle rhythms; call and respond; and much more. Includes five complete blues solos, five blues backing tracks to rehearse soloing over, and all examples in notes & tab on the printable PDF file. 60 min.
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