Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar Essentials

Gig Savers Complete Edition-Corey Christiansen: Jazz Guitar Essentials combines nine of the author's previous editions into a comprehensive book that explains the key concepts of jazz Guitar in an accessible approach. Each chapterincludes melodic/harmonic examples with fretboard diagrams standard notation and tablature. Part 1 includes lessons on jazz lines with chapters on digital patterns guide tones and targeting. Part 2 presents thebasics of chord construction and voicing techniques. Triads seventh chords and chords with tensions/embellishments are covered including their inversions drop and quartal voicings. Part 3 presents comprehensive warm-upand technical exercises. Studies begin at the most basic level and progress in difficulty. This chapter provides guitarists with tools for constructing their own technical exercises. Part 4 presents accompaniment patternsfor a wide variety of pop styles such as folk rock/blues country/bluegrass jazz and some Latin styles including bossa nova and samba. Basic fingerstyle accompaniment patterns are taught with rhythmic notation and stringnumbers. Part 5 presents alternate changes and substitutions for the blues that can be easily transposed. (Chapters 3 4 and 5 also are presented in Rock Guitar Essentials: Gig Savers Complete Edition). Part 6includes lessons on common jazz chord substitutions. Topics include chord embellishment alteration degree substitution (iii for I vi for I ii for V) tritone substitution and many other tricks for spicing up chordprogressions. Part 7 covers jazz Guitar comping an essential role in accompaniment. A number of chord shapes and rhythms are taught in the style of Freddie Green bebop and more modern styles. Blues progressions and anetude are included for practicing your comping. Part 8 presents a wealth of information about playing over the last two measures of jazz tunes. The method breaks down the harmonic structures frequently found at the end of

Gig Savers Complete Edition-Corey Christiansen: Rock Guitar Essentials combines the author's five previous pocket-sized editions. This comprehensive Gig Savers book contains everything the beginning guitarist needs to master the rockstyle. Part 1 of this guide gives aspiring rock guitarists a working knowledge of the most basic scales commonly used to improvise rock solos and write rock melodies. A discussion on how each scale can be used over a set ofchords is provided to help guitarists use these scales when performing. Charts provide the names of the notes on the fretboard and a section on sequencing scales makes it possible for guitarists to easily master rock scales.Part 2 teaches the rock guitarist how to play any barre chord providing insight on how to play them with ease and agility. Moveable chord shapes and practice etudes are especially useful for beginners. Part 3 presentscomprehensive warm-up and technical exercises. Studies begin at the most basic level and progress in difficulty. This chapter gives guitarists the information needed to continue constructing their own technical exercises.Part 4 presents accompaniment patterns for a wide variety of pop styles such as folk rock/blues country/bluegrass jazz and some Latin styles including bossa nova and samba. Basic fingerstyle accompaniment patterns aretaught in a simple manner presented with rhythmic notation and string numbers. This chapter pays special attention to the blues covering alternate changes and substitutions in a method that provides easy transposition.

Extend your guitar playing repertoire and develop essential Rhythm Guitar skills! This Musicians Institute Private Lessons edition is based on the concept that for most popular music styles there are a few basicprogressions and techniques that determine the character and sounds we recognise. Steve Trovato’s comprehensive book contains seven popular music guitar styles: country fingerstyle acoustic blues rock Latin andBrazilian swing jazz and funk. For each one there are written progressions typical of that style. Included in each section are stylistically typical chord voicings progressions rhythms and basic strum or accompanimentpatterns to bring you closer to mastering the style. CD contains full demo tracks and demonstrations of all examples.

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!