Jazz Standards For Solo Guitar

Learn ten jazz guitar standards arranged for solo guitar. These performance-ready arrangements demonstrate different ways to interpret jazz standards and render them for solo guitar performance. Each includes a technicalintroduction from the arranger discussing his motivations and identifying some of the defining aspects of each approach such as the use of line cliché harmony song form and modality. In learning these arrangements youwill gain insight into how to craft your own solos.

One would be hard pressed to find another jazz guitarist so polished sought-after and committed to the music that he loves. From his earliest days Jimmy Bruno has loved and been loved by jazz. With his unmistakable presenceand inspiring virtuosity great pride Mel Bay Records releases Jimmy Bruno’s new album SOLO on Guitar Sessions a label dedicated to cutting-edge jazz guitar. SOLO is nothing but Jimmy Bruno literally. Jimmy arrangedthis compilation of originals and jazz standards for solo jazz guitar presenting the listener with the opportunity to hear and enjoy every note. Whether it’s the dynamic swing of Benny’s Tune or the romantic familiarity of SatinDoll Jimmy Bruno digs in deep and demonstrates true mastery of his instrument.

A Complete Approach To Playing Tunes-This comprehensive anthology offers a lead sheet chord solo arrangement comping etude and single-note solo for each of 22 jazz standards. These arrangements and etudes by some of the best arrangers and educators in the businessprovide jazz guitar students with material for development in every aspect of jazz musicianship. Tunes include: Satin Doll Just Friends Moonlight in Vermont and more. Written in standard notation and tablature.

A collection of the world's best loved Jazz Standards.The esteemed group of singers chronicled in this volume were able to make a song their own just by singing it. The piano parts vary in difficulty from the most simple arrangements to more complicated piano solos, hence catering for players of all standards. Complete lyrics and guitar chord symbols included.

Fifteen Jazz standards superbly arranged by Andy Jones for guitar tablature and standard notation complete with chord symbols. Includes Chelsea Bridge Honeysuckle Rose I'm Gettin' Sentimental Over You Undecided plus many more.

Media Type : Book/CD Set Level : Beginning-Intermediate Musical Genre : Jazz Number of pages : 88 The Martin Taylor Guitar Method offers you the chance to study with one of the giants of jazz guitar. Hailed by guitar legend Chet Atkins as One of the greatest and most impressive guitarists in the world today... and celebrated by New York's Jazz Times as Europe's finest guitarist, Martin shares the secrets of his style for the first time in this amazing tutor. Learn how Martin creates solo guitar arrangements of jazz standards via a series of progressive studies aimed at introducing guitarists of intermediate level and beyond to the world of arranging and solo performance. All music examples are transcribed in standard notation with tablature and played by Martin himself on the accompanying CD. You won't get a better chance to study with one of the instrument's true masters!

If you love old standards like Autumn Leaves and Moonglow but always thought only advanced guitarists could play jazz you'll love Fred's easy-to-play jazz chord solos. In this lesson you'll learn six timeless tunes from start to finish: how to play backup while you sing them and how to play a beautiful chord melody solo/instrumental for each song.The tunes are arranged for beginners with very few difficult chords. Fred plays and sings each song then goes over the tricky spots in each tune before playing it slower on a split screen with close-ups of both hands. Best of all you can read all six arrangements (tablature music and chord grids) in thebooklet that comes with this lesson as a PDF file on the DVD. Chord soloing (playing the melody and chords at the same time) is a very complete and satisfying guitar style. This lesson will get you started and Fred's relaxed teaching style makes it easy.Songs include: Autumn Leaves Moonglow Gee Baby Ain't I good To You Til There Was You Young At Heart and In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning.A detailed tab/music instructional booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD.

Mark Vega’s Jazz Solo Series for Guitar is a great instructional tool for musicians and music students to learn or improve their improvisational abilities in the jazz-swing idiom. There are sixty-six examples in the book starting at a somewhat easy level and gradually increasing in difficulty throughout the book. Sections include: Exercises in all twelve keys using II-V-I and II-V-III-VI-II-V-I chord progressions. Exercises in all twelve keys using I-VI-II-V-III-bIII-II-V-I chord progressions. Complete worked-out solos over chord changes to the popular Jazz standards Stella By Starlight Take The ATrain and There Will Never Be Another You. Includes an easy version of the solo followed by a more difficult one. Recordings of the choruses of the above pieces repeated for convenient practicing. A selected discography of Mark’s favourite Jazz albums featuring great Jazz soloists.

To become fluent in the language of jazz and music in general musicians must develop equality of all twelve keys.The goal of the Jazz Guitar Chord Thesaurus is not only to provide a reference for learning chord fingerings but to offer a daily practice routine to increase the guitarist's vocabulary of chords. The Jazz Guitar Chord Thesaurus will provide a clear cut path to learning all the inversions of seventh chords by using the two main building blocks of jazz harmony: major and minor ii-V-I chord progressions. The accompanying CD includes backup tracks to 10 jazz standards to allow guitarists to applytheir new chord vocabulary.