Fred Sokolow: Playing and Understanding Jazz Guitar: Guitar: Instrumental Tutor

The quintessential tutorial to get you started in the complex but satisfying world of Jazz guitar. Fred Sokolow gives you all the basics you will need including chords scales licks and theory to get started playing Jazzstraight away. In this 75 minute lesson you will learn:Chord construction and chord typesScalewise progressions and how to use themThe Circle-of-fifths how to recognise and use itComping chords and singlenote solosImprovising with scale and chord-based licksHow to recognise and solo over the II-V-I progression.

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.

The Essential Patterns That All the Pros Know and Use-Take your baritone uke playing to the next level with this great package that will teach you how to: strum backup chords all over the fretboard in any key; play chord solos up and down the fretboard; solo in any key using first-position major scales chord-based licks and moveable major and blues scales; understand chord progressions; increase your chord vocabulary; and more. Tunes and exercises that illustrate each technique are written in standard notation and tablature and played on the accompanying audio. An absolute beginner can follow the diagrams and instruction from the beginning. Intermediate and advanced players can use the chapters non-sequentially toincrease their understanding of the baritone ukulele. Audio is accessed online using the unique code in each book and includes PLAYBACK+ tools such as tempo adjustment looping and more.