Learn to create your own Jazz Solos with Stuart Bull! This groundbreaking DVD helps you play your own Jazz solos from the simplest point right through to complicated phrases and concepts. Stuart Bull provides the scales phrases and chords needed to lift your vocabulary and create some serious Jazz Guitar solos. Bull shows you how to take existing ideas and develop them into more complex and challenging concepts. The DVD includes no less than eight jam tracks to give you the chance to put those new ideas into action.

The smooth jazz grooves in this 46 page book feature a variety of contemporary rhythm section styles including RandB Jazz Funk Top 40 Rock Gospel Hip Hop and Latin. These stylistic influences are frequently associated with smooth jazz.On each of the 20 tracks the groove is separated into 3 melodic ideas. Each melodic idea (example or riff) is played first by the guitar with the groove followed by just the rhythm section groove without the guitar. The 1st example is usually the easiest the 2nd slightly harder and the 3rd the most difficult. Customer Comments I have just been given your book as a christmas present - and I am so happy to have it! Your grooves are amazing! I feel like it is really inspriring. The book was bought from Musicroom in Brighton on Western Road. My favourites so far are track 1 2 and 4... I'm on the second riff so far and they are so good!! Thank you for making the book :)

Sweet and Lowdown Woody Allen's film from 1999 starred Sean Penn as the legendary but fictitious jazz guitarist of the '30s Emmett Ray. Emmett considered himself to be the second greatest jazz guitarist in the world next toDjango Reinhardt. The versatile Howard Alden played all of the solo acoustic guitar parts for the movie as well as coaching Mr. Penn to play guitar for his role (for which he received an Oscar nomination best actor). This bookcontains note-for-note transcriptions in both standard notation and tab of Howard's Django-esque interpretations and improvisations of classic standards of the 1930s as well as original solo guitar pieces written by Woody'slongtime musical director jazz pianist Dick Hyman. Sweet and Lowdown contributed greatly to the recent renewal of interest in and revival of swing and gypsy jazz guitar. Howard's guitar work is a warm and personal example of thetimeless musical vocabulary of swing guitar.

Transcriptions to all the tracks from Metheny's 2008 one-day-long recording session with bassist Christian McBride and drummer Antonio Sanchez: At Last You're Here - Calvin's Keys - Day Trip - Dreaming Trees - Is This America' - Let's Move - The Red One - Snova - Son of Thirteen - When We Were Free. Also includes these songs from the live album Tokyo Day Trip: Back Arm and Blackcharge - Inori - The Night Becomes You - Traveling Fast - Tromso.

This matching folio features 9 transcriptions of Pat Metheny's Guitar parts from his all-star collaboration with Antonio Sanchez Ben Williams and Chris Potter.Pat Metheny: Unity Band includes the songs Breakdealer Come and See Leaving Town Roofdogs New Year and more.

100 Ultimate Jazz Riffs for Guitar by Andrew D. Gordon and Jo De Sa consists of as the title suggests 100 Jazz riffs based on chord progressions used in jazz such as the II-V-I II-VI-II-V etc. Most jazz as well as pop standards such as Misty Satin Doll Blue Moon This Masquerade and Europa use these types of chord progressions. There are five separate sections: Jazz Swing Jazz Ballad Jazz Funk Jazz Waltz and Latin Jazz. At the end of the book there is the chord progression for the popular jazz standard Blue Moon showing you how to use various examples from over 100 riffs to create an improvised solo over the chordprogression. By demonstrating this technique you can pick most jazz standards and create your own improvisational ideas using the book.The accompanying CD is recorded with the guitar as the melody instrument along with the piano bass and drums. All of the examples are recorded with the guitar playing with the rhythm section at the normal tempo followed by just the rhythm section playing the normal tempo so that the soloist can practice along. The more difficult examples have been recorded with the rhythm section playing at a slowed down tempo.

Description Jazz Guitar Standards: Chord Melody Solos This collection of jazz standard chord solos for guitar is compiled from Mel Bay and Warner Bros.

Adapted by Corey Christiansen Spiral Book and 2 CDs! Why should horn players have all of the fun' Now, the number one selling Jazz Improvisation book in the world has a whole new look! Introducing a new version of Jamey's world famous Volume 1 - How To Play Jazz And Improvise, completely revised and specifically tailored for guitarists by jazz great Corey Christiansen! This edition is perfectly aligned with the original classic Sixth Edition that introduced tens of thousands of musicians to essential jazz fundamentals such as scale/chord relationships, articulation, note choices, etc. In this special version, however, the text has been carefully edited and rewritten to speak specifically to guitarists. Even non-reading players will benefit, because we've also included TAB and FRAMES for each of the musical examples. The piano track from the original CD has been replaced by Corey on guitar, and many of the chords and voicings are explained and notated in the book. The play-a-long/demonstration CD includes special stereo separation, allowing the guitar on each track to be eliminated so that the student can play along with bassist Rufus Reid and drummer Jonathan Higgins. A second CD includes the same play-a-long tracks as the first CD, but at slower practice tempos. This high-quality book is spiral bound, designed to lie flat for ease of use. A complete package! Includes: Scales/Chords Developing Creativity Improv Fundamentals 12 Blues Scales Bebop Scales Pentatonic Scales Time and Feel Melodic Development II/V7s Related Scales and Modes Practical Exercises Patterns and Licks Dominant 7th Tree of Scale Choices Nomenclature Chromaticism Scale Syllabus and more! NOTE FROM JAMEY When I first heard So What on the Kind of Blue record I didn't think anything was happening because I was used to hearing changes flying by and this seemed so tame by comparison. I quickly fell in love with Kind of Blue and of course we at IU started experimenting with modal tunes and trying to keep our place in those many 8 bar phrases that seemed at times to make me feel like I was in the middle of a desert and couldn't see for the life of me the beginning of the next 8 bar phrase.

Guitar Training Session:-By offering you the possibility to evolve in actual group situations this coursebook not only teaches you how to perform but also how to spice up your jazz accompaniments. By offering you the possibility to evolve in actual group situations this coursebook not only teaches you how to perform but also how to spice up your jazz accompaniments.The enclosed CD contains 11 complete backing tracks (Drums Bass and Guitar) on which you can play the numerous jazz rhythm parts proposed in this coursebook contextually appropriately. In doing so some of you will simply discover the pleasure of playing superb jazz accompaniments while others will use the interpretational ideas presented in this coursebook to further their personal style and create their own rhythm parts. Practicing your instrument is therefore as personal as your ownplaying because the choice is yours.The songs in this coursebook are of varying difficulties and cover diverse jazz directions such as Jazz Swing Latin Jazz Jazz Fusion and Acid Jazz. Armed with this level of knowledge you are fully prepared to meet all foreseeable future challenges.

The Herb Ellis Jazz Guitar Method is designed to take the mystery out of playing jazz guitar. Each book in the method is based on one of the three pivotal chord progressions in the jazz guitarist's repertoire. Herb teaches single-note improvisation through a system of simple shapes that are derived from chord fingerings.

This must-have new series gives you the opportunity to learn 27 of the most important jazz standards contained in the Just Jazz and Just Standards Real Books. Learn these great songs by playing along with jazz greats Jimmy Haslip and Barry Coates in a classic trio jazz setting. Plus, in the accompanying books Jimmy and Barry teach their approaches to chord substitution, comping, and soloing concepts; including complete transcriptions of their own improvised solos and Barry's awe-inspiring chord melody arrangements of the heads. Volume 3 titles are: My Funny Valentine * Night and Day * How High the Moon * Emily * Gentle Rain * On Green Dolphin Street * Secret Love * Softly As in a Morning Sunrise * Summertime.