Hanon For Guitar: In Tab

Dave Stryker explains his approach to jazz improvisation with musical examples that he himself uses learned from years of playing with the greats - after learning how to play jazz from listening to players such asGrant Green Wes Montgomery and Pat Martino. Dave Stryker's Jazz Guitar Improvisation Method explains the minor sub approach using minor scales to play over dominant seventh chords and then includesseveral solos over often-played jazz standards using this approach. Also described are the use of the blues and pentatonic scales as well as be-bop ideas the melodic minor scale and whole-tone and diminished scales andpatterns. Hanon-type warm up exercises and Stryker's own fingerings shown in tab are also described. Perfect for intermediate-to-more advanced players Stryker's concise way of explaining his approachwill open up the students to developing their own improvisational ideas. Stryker plays the examples and solos on the audio including tracks with a rhythm only section for student play-along. Includes access to onlineaudio.

Peter Daneff is a pianist composer arranger and teacher at the Musician's Institue in Hollywood. His music has a mixture of influences including Latin jazz and Middle Eastern styles. Guitar Hanon is a colection of 51fretboard exercises designed to dramatically improve strength and independence of the fingering hand and speed and coordination of the picking hand. Many of the exercises contain different fingerings and can be played ondifferent string sets in different positions or across the whole fretboard. The exercises are perfect for guitarists of all standards from beginners to professionals and will benefit guitarists of all musical genres sincethey contain Arabic Greek Persian African flamenco salsa and classical as well as jazz and blues influences. The book contains diatonic and chromatic scale exercises as well as major minor dominant and half-diminishedseventh arpeggio based exercises. Whole tones and diminished arpeggios are also covered.