All Blues Soloing for Jazz Guitar

The most complete guide to jazz/blues soloing ever written! This comprehensive book details the sounds elements and approaches that make the blues such an integral part of the jazz vocabulary. Moving from blues progressions tofingerboard organization to phrasing essential blues scales riffs lick development and an array of advanced concepts and devices including substitute scales & extended super arpeggios are covered. Throughout this process 38solos over 100 music examples and hundreds of licks are featured. Written in notation and tablature.

A Complete Course in All Styles of Jazz-The Jazz Guitar Handbook is a step-by-step guide to jazz Guitar playing. It takes you from the basics through to advanced harmony and soloing concepts and teaches you the music theory a jazz guitarist needs to know. Along the way it covers a wide range of styles including jazzy blues swing bebop modal jazz-funk Gypsy and more.The handbook features over 120 exercises in notation and tab and includes a 96-track CD of examples play-alongs and backing tracks. It also presents the history of the jazz guitar and its great players. Easy to use and useful for players at various levels this volume is a must-have reference for Guitar playerslooking to expand their jazz skillset.

Acoustic Guitar Private Lessons Series-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.

Let the undisputed King of Swing bring a personable and relaxed approach to the serious business of creating flowing and swinging guitar lines. In this one-hour presentation Herb Ellis uses the 12-bar blues progression as a background while he discusses and demonstrates some favorite lines that have made him part of jazz guitar history. Herb takes you through tuning chord formations scales picking comping equipment and melodic ideas and adds some commonsense advice. DVD special features include a tuning segment a bonus performance by Joe Pass bonus lessons in swing blues and major arpeggios and printable PDF reference materials.

String Skipping and Wide Interval Soloing For Guitar-String Skipping and Wide Interval Soloing: 212 Melodic Studies and Patterns for Guitar is a much-needed guitarist's guide to mastering wide interval soloing.This collection of repeating continuous motion studies shows theguitarist how to develop melodic patterns that are characterized by large intervallic jumps in pitch from one note to the next in constant succession. This book presents four unique approaches to developing wide intervalsoloing all of which utilize string skipping: 1) double pentatonic scales which are three-note-per-string pentatonic scale patterns; 2) octave sliding which uses sliding octave shapes in a variety of ways; 3) stacked fifths which are wide interval shapes derived from pentatonic scales; and 4) wide interval arpeggios derived from the diatonic major scale.The sound that results from these techniques is exciting and unpredictable because it issuch a departure from conventional melodic flow which tends to be scalar moving stepwise from one note in a scale to the next. By contrast wide interval soloing is angular and skewed with big skips and sudden directionalchanges creating a complex and fascinating sound. All of the studies in this book are designed as melodic etudes that can be applied directly to soloing in rock jazz fusion and blues music.This book is ideal for seriousguitarists in any style who want to break out of typical soloing patterns and create a more explosive radical sound! Includes access to online audio.

Week five includes lessons on major and minor pentatonic motifs note placements major pentatonics for soloing using the open high E string using the E diminished chord and dominant arpeggios. Advanced blues in six weeks is the next step from the already classic 'Electric Blues In Six Weeks'. This series goes deep into the possibilities of blues soloing analysing the true diversity between between some of the best blues guitar players who have explored the genre. From the string bending and jazz concepts of BB King to the amazing fast blues rock runs of Joe Bonamassa. Concepts such as diminished scale usage made popular by Robben Ford are demonstrated and taughtfor practical application.Artists such as Larry Carlton also bring a jazz flavour to the blues and popular ideas such as playing off of the 'five chord' are discussed and utilized. For anyone trying to take their playing to the next level Advanced blues in six week will give you plenty of new ideas licks and inspiration to help you take a further step into better understanding and playing of blues guitar.

Method and Solos for Jump Blues Guitar 2-DVD Set-Cult figure rock & roll legend and music writer Cub Koda defined jump blues as 'an up-tempo jazz-tinged style of blues that first came to prominence in the mid- to late '40s. Usually featuring a vocalist in front of a large horn-driven orchestra or medium sized combo with multiple horns the style is earmarked by a driving rhythm intensely shouted vocals and honking tenor saxophone solos - all of those very elements a precursor to rock & roll. The lyrics are almost always celebratory in nature full of braggadocio and swagger.'Dutch recording artist and top European Guitar educator Matthieu Brandt spent a decade interviewing and studying with many of the originatorsof Jump Blues to document the style and create this essential Jump Blues course for Guitar.This 2-DVD set is presented as a methodology covering theory comping accompanist riffs horn lines arranged for Guitar and several approaches for soloing drilling down on many approaches for opening up the neck for the scales arps and riffs that are employed in swing and Jump Blues Guitar.It also ices the cake with 12 tasty solos followed by in-depth analysis of several jump blues giants such as Brian Setzer T-Bone Walker Charlie Christian Gatemouth Brown and Freddie King all of whom have their own signature sound. Accompanying vocalists and soloists is a big part of the style and is as challenging and rewarding as soloing. A sizable chunk of these DVDs is dedicated to voicings pulling off various rhythms and locking up with the rhythm section.

Advanced Blues in Six Weeks is the next step from the already classic Electric Blues In Six Weeks. This series goes deep into the possibilities of blues soloing analysing the true diversity between between some of the best blues guitar players who have explored the genre. From the string bending and jazz concepts of BB King to the amazing fast blues rock runs of Joe Bonamassa. Concepts such as diminished scale usage made popular by Robben Ford are demonstrated and taught for practical application. Artists such as Larry Carlton also bring a jazz flavour to the blues and popular ideas such as playing off of the 'five chord' are discussed andutilized. For anyone trying to take their playing to the next level Advanced blues in six week will give you plenty of new ideas licks and inspiration to help you take a further step into better understanding and playing of blues guitar.

Ce superbe DVD comprend une sélection de facile à absorber les leçons qui sont conçus pour enseigner le guitariste débutant certaines des bases essentielles de la guitare blues.Au cours de ce DVD, vous apprendrez quelques techniques essentielles de guitare de plomb tels que chaîne de flexion, marteler et à retirer, coulissant, et un vibrato qui peut aussi être d'autres styles de guitare jouant du jazz au métal.Ce DVD contient: techniques essentielles, y compris les bleus, 12 bar blues de E (dominante accords de 7ème) Finger embellissements de style de blues corde 8 bar blues du blues et de rythmes rapides changements mélangez 12 Bar Blues en A (accords 6e et 9e) Blues Soloing virages sur un blues progression, lèche, doubles cordes, lèche exécution gammes, arpèges et bien plus encore! / Guitare

The Contemporary Guide to Improvisation-Learn how to play the guitar solos you've always dreamed of playing with the help of the expert tutors of the Musicians Institute.Daniel Gilbert and Beth Marlis introduce you to the scales modes arpeggios and technical exercises that you need to solo with confidence and fluency. The examples cover a rich range of styles from Rock and Blues to Jazz and more. Discover how to use sequences and phrases to build solos as well as a host of inspiring licks.A booklet of examples is included in both standard notation and Tab.

Volume Two-Finally a complete method for learning jazz guitar that's clear accessible and crammed with enough information to save you months even years of searching on your own. Mike DeMicco one of America's hottest players has devised an informative insightful series on how to play jazz guitar. Now it’s time to dig deeper into jazz improvisation in styles ranging from bebop to jazz blues. Mike presents a full range of soloing ideas ranging from bebop to jazz blues designed to dramatically expand your knowledge of the guitar.

The Contemporary Guide to Improvisation-This comprehensive source for mastering the art of single-note melodic improvisation includes: scales modes arpeggios technique and visualization exercises rock blues jazz and other styles sequences phrases and licks over 50 audio tracks for demonstration and play-along and ten video lessons.The audio and video lessons are 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.

Take your guitar playing into a new world as John Ganapes and David Roos teach you exactly how to Jazz the Blues in this step-by-step comprehensive tutorial.15 complete hands-on lessons take you from the basics of the Blues before expanding the ideas into the realms of Jazz. You'll learn to improvise comp and jam with the full-band play-along audio tracks as you work through chapters covering: Harmony and melody Licks tricks and turnarounds Basic theory Chords scales and modes Extended and secondary dominant chords Chord-scale soloing and extensions Approach tones and passing chordsFlat-fifth substitutions Minor and major Blues Sideslipping and harmonic gravity The soloing styles of Wes Montgomery and Charlie Christian Single-note octave and chord soloing