Gig Savers: Killer Comping
A Basic Guide
by Corey Christiansen
Electric Guitar - Sheet Music

Guitar (all) - Beginning

SKU: MB.20076

A Basic Guide. Composed by Corey Christiansen. Saddle-stitched, Style, Technique, Theory, Reference & Rhythm. Gig Savers. Jazz. Book - half size. 16 pages. Mel Bay Publications, Inc #20076. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc (MB.20076).

ISBN 9780786663637. UPC: 796279083027. 5.5 x 8 inches.

This Mel Bay Gig Saver gives aspiring guitarists ideas about jazz guitar accompaniment in a brief, affordable, yet informative fashion. In jazz, the term comping means to accompany, and in some cases, to complement. It is the job of the harmonic instrument guitar to provide a background for other musicians to improvise against or a singer to sing against. The idea, when comping, is to make the other musicians comfortable while they play and to help their solos feel complete. This book gives the guitarist a number of chord shapes and rhythms that can be used when comping in the style of Freddie Green, and in bebop and later styles. There are also blues progressions and an etude to practice applying the concepts.