Easy Soloing: Jazz Guitar

If you're trying to improve your lead guitar playing by studying scales that's only half the picture. The best lead guitarists in rock jazz country bluegrass and R and B base much of their improvisation and soloing on chords -even when they're playing single-note solos. In this one and a half hour lesson Fred Sokolow shows you several chord-based approaches to soloing and backup. Covering several musical genres Fred teaches you to:Play arpeggios country licks and fast flatpicking solos in country/bluegrass tunes like Jambalaya and Wreck of the Old 97. Solo and backup RandB songs like People Get Ready and Just My Imagination in the colorful styleJimi Hendrix used on Little Wing. Play Steve Cropper-style licks on Dock of the Bay and Under the Boardwalk. Improvise Django-style solos on swing tunes like Avalon. You'll also learn some music theory and get abetter understanding of the guitar as Fred shows you ways to instantly find chords up and down the fretboard and connect them in chord families. Lots of Fred's solos are written out in the accompanying tab/music booklet and ifyou put the DVD in your computer you can access a PDF file and print it all out in a larger size. Fred's relaxed style of teaching makes it easy for you to add new licks new color and new strategies to your lead guitarplaying.

If you're getting into jazz or expanding your jazz chops this comprehensive approach is for you. From comping and chord voicings to single-note soloing you will learn step by step the tools necessary for playing jazz Guitar.The book is easy to understand and contains hundreds of great-sounding playable examples to serve as springboards for applying the concepts to jazz standards or your own compositions. Whether you're into traditional jazz orfusion this book has it all.In notation and tablature. Online audio and video available.

Learn the fundamentals of how to strum use a pick tune your guitar and the names of the notes for each string. Then master the styles of rock fingerstyle blues jazz country and more. And then study soloing power riffs pro chord substitutions playing up and down the neck and more! This comprehensive pack includes: 20 complete sessions on ten instructional DVDs five jam-along CDs a 100 page lesson book 150 page downloadable resource book professional instruction and two DVDs of teacher resources. Winner of a Communicator and Telly Award for Education Learn and Master Guitar Academic Edition is designed for students wanting to learn acoustic and electricguitar from the ground up. This two-year curriculum starts with rudimentary concepts and progresses through intermediate and advanced levels of playing ability ? all in this easy-to-use program. By following along with thesystematic exercises your student will become a well-rounded highly-skilled and versatile player.

Legendary guitarist and educator Don Mock exposes the closely-guarded secret soloing techniques of jazz and rock giants, revealing easy ways to create ultra-cool sounding lines and patterns by substituting simple harmonic minor patterns over dominant 7th chords. These book/CD packages each contain over 60 music examples, lines, licks and patterns. All music is written in standard notation and tablature.

Effortless Guitar Series-This DVD will introduce you to the world of octave playing in the style of Wes Montgomery George Benson Joe Pass and Pat Metheny. Learn how to dramatically musically and effortlessly expand your soloing using all of the touch taste tone time and above all tude as in ATTITUDE. Using octaves guitarists can kick-up the melodic possibilities of their soloing far beyond scales licks and chords – and give the player powerful new tools forimprovisation not just in jazz but blues pop and rock. Learn about octaves by learning easy to play contemporary jazz pieces in an effortless progression from the basics to some of the most advanced and expressive octave playingall in the course of one video! Sections include: Octave basics around the neck • using the thumb fingers and pick for maximum versatility • Chord solo concepts using octaves • blues licks scales and chromaticriffs in octaves • Play melodies expressively with octaves developing an awesome touch using right hand tonal techniques • developing a naturally expressive style using techniques such as expressive dynamic contouring• expressive devices such as slurs tremolo slides • additional harmony behond octaves • lots of solo ideas to develop and adapt into your own style.

This DVD will introduce you to the world of octave playing in the style of Wes Montgomery George Benson Joe Pass and Pat Metheny. Learn how to dramatically musically and effortlessly expand your soloing with tips on touch tone time and style. Using octaves will enable you to expand the melodic possibilities of soloing far beyond scales licks and chords giving you powerful new tools for improvisation across all styles. This DVD will guide you through playing octaves from easy-to-play contemporary jazz pieces right through some of the most advanced and expressive jazz playing! Sections include:Octave basics around theneck Using the thumb fingers and pick for maximum versatility Chord solo concepts using octaves Blues licks scales and chromatic riffs in octaves Play melodies expressively with octaves Developing an awesome touch using right hand tonal techniques Creating a naturally expressive style using techniques such as ‘dynamic contouring’ Expressive devices such as slurs tremolo slides and additional harmony beyond octaves Lots of solo ideas to develop and adapt into your own style

Ten Lead Guitar Lessons from The Registry Of Guitar Tutors the world’s leading authority on Guitar education. Lesson subjects include: choosing a scale major scales pentatonic scales slurring vibrato jazz soloing and much more. Each lesson is shown in both standard notation and easy-to-read tablature. This book includes a free accompanying CD making Guitar easier to learn than ever before. Every example is demonstrated on CD. Many lessons also include backing tracks to play along to. This volume of Guitar Lessons is suitable for early stage and intermediate level players.

Real Easy Book 2 - Bb Version. Following on from the great success of The Real Easy Book Volume 1, The Real Easy Book Volume 2 is perfect for students with a few years of playing experience, right up to working professionals. From jazz classics like Four, Scrapple From The Apple, and Dear Old Stockholm to contemporary tunes like George Benson's Mimosa and Donald Fagen's Walk Between Raindrops this selection of songs will keep you and your audience smiling. The Real Easy Book Volume 2 will save band directors countless hours of writing out scales for soloing, chord voicings, Guitar diagrams and Bass lines - they are all included with each tune. The educational material in this book has been developed in conjunction with Stanford Jazz Workshop. It works.

The Real Easy Book Vol.2: Tunes For Intermediate Improvisers is a great resource for school jazz combos, private teachers or any musician who likes jazz. Perfect for students with a few years playing experience, right up to working professionals. It will save band directors countless hours of writing out scales for soloing, chord voicings, guitar diagrams and bass lines – they are all included with each tune. The educational material was developed in conjunction with the Stanford Jazz Workshop. Available in C, Bb, Eb and bass clef versions. With tunes by Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Horace Silver, Sonny Rollins, Wes Montgomery, Stanley Turrentine, Clark Terry , Cal Tjader, John Scofield, Kenny Burrell, George Benson, Cannonball Adderley, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Joe Henderson and a host of others. / Ensemble Music / Recueil / Instruments en Clé de Fa

This superb DVD includes a selection of easy-to-absorb lessons that are designed to teach the beginner guitarist some of the essential basics of blues guitar playing. You'll learn some essential lead guitar techniques such as string bending hammer-on and pull-off sliding and vibrato that can be used in styles of guitar playing from jazz to metal. Topics covered include: 12-bar blues in E (dominant 7th chords) · fingerstyle blues · chord embellishments · 8-bar blues · quick change blues and shuffle rhythms · 12-bar blues in A (6th and 9th chords) · blues bends · soloing over a blues progression (licks double stops turnaround licks) · scales arpeggios and muchmore!

The only fake book specifically designed for middle school or high school classroom use. New, Expanded, Three-Horn version now includes two harmony parts for each song, horn parts to play as background behind soloists, shout choruses, etc.The Real Easy Book contains over 40 simple, but classic, jazz tunes by Miles, McCoy Tyner, Sonny Rollins, etc. Each song is on a left-hand page, and all the information that a band director would have to write out for his/her students is on the corresponding right-hand page - sample piano voicings, bass lines, guitar diagrams, scales for soloing, etc. Saves the teacher countless hours of prep work! / Instruments En Mib