All Blues Soloing for Jazz Guitar

The most complete guide to jazz/blues soloing ever written! This comprehensive book details the sounds elements and approaches that make the blues such an integral part of the jazz vocabulary. Moving from blues progressions tofingerboard organization to phrasing essential blues scales riffs lick development and an array of advanced concepts and devices including substitute scales & extended super arpeggios are covered. Throughout this process 38solos over 100 music examples and hundreds of licks are featured. Written in notation and tablature.

Jazz Soloing Strategies for Guitar is a study of essential and innovative approaches to jazz improvisation. Designed for blues and rock guitarists with a desire to broaden their musical vocabulary, this book shows you important concepts for playing great jazz solos. Eight full-length solos in a variety of jazz styles, ranging from classic standards and Gypsy jazz to Latin, modal, and smooth jazz, are covered in great detail. The chord progressions are analyzed, as well as the techniques, structural characteristics, and material used to improvise over them. This book takes an intelligent and thorough approach to shed new light on jazz guitar soloing and provides you with fresh strategies to apply to your own playing. A CD demonstrating all the examples in the book and for playing along is included.

Techniques Rhythm & Soloing for Nashville-Style Guitar 2-DVD Set-Some call it country Guitar with a dash of rock blues and jazz. Others call it modern Nashville-style guitar. We call it 'Big Twang' and no one's better qualified to help you get a grip on the style than bonafide master twanger Joe Dalton. Players like Albert Lee Arlen Roth Danny Gatton Johnny Hiland Ray Flacke Leon McAuliffe Brent Mason Chet Atkins Scotty Anderson Red Volkaert James Burton and Jimmy Bryant all have their own classic Big Twang signature sound and technique. But today contemporary players across all styles have incorporated twang influences in their signature sounds.In this DVD you will work through a wide variety of rhythm and soloingparts across five distinct Big Twang grooves that Dalton has prepared to illustrate the diversity of the style. Key learnings include mastering the many different attacks required with the picking hand along with the essential 'touches' required from the fretting hand. As you work with the material Dalton will cover hybrid picking chicken-picking pull-offs hammer-ons double-stops pedal steel emulation ending slides pluck 'n cluck staccato and legato effects tips for crafting a good solo syncopation vibrato and tons of other tricks of the twang trade.

Licks tricks tones and tips for the aspiring lead guitarist! Expand your improvisational horizons with this incredible resource for all guitarists. Soloing Strategies For Guitar explores a variety of improvisational concepts and techniques backed up with fingering patterns exercises and lick examples galore. In Addition each chapter includes several extended solos (in the styles of rock blues funk jazz and country) based entirely on the techniques brought forth in each lesson. Furthermore each chapter features Quick Theory Tutorials that you can refer to if you need to brush up on your music theory. You'll find asection called Tone Tips that precedes each solo. Here you get suggestions for Guitar amplifier and effects settings. To top it all off there's a variety of play-along tracks on the accompanying online audio downloads that you can jam along with complete with chord charts and soloing suggestions.

Method and Solos for Jump Blues Guitar 2-DVD Set-Cult figure rock & roll legend and music writer Cub Koda defined jump blues as 'an up-tempo jazz-tinged style of blues that first came to prominence in the mid- to late '40s. Usually featuring a vocalist in front of a large horn-driven orchestra or medium sized combo with multiple horns the style is earmarked by a driving rhythm intensely shouted vocals and honking tenor saxophone solos - all of those very elements a precursor to rock & roll. The lyrics are almost always celebratory in nature full of braggadocio and swagger.'Dutch recording artist and top European Guitar educator Matthieu Brandt spent a decade interviewing and studying with many of the originatorsof Jump Blues to document the style and create this essential Jump Blues course for Guitar.This 2-DVD set is presented as a methodology covering theory comping accompanist riffs horn lines arranged for Guitar and several approaches for soloing drilling down on many approaches for opening up the neck for the scales arps and riffs that are employed in swing and Jump Blues Guitar.It also ices the cake with 12 tasty solos followed by in-depth analysis of several jump blues giants such as Brian Setzer T-Bone Walker Charlie Christian Gatemouth Brown and Freddie King all of whom have their own signature sound. Accompanying vocalists and soloists is a big part of the style and is as challenging and rewarding as soloing. A sizable chunk of these DVDs is dedicated to voicings pulling off various rhythms and locking up with the rhythm section.

Advanced Blues in Six Weeks is the next step from the already classic Electric Blues In Six Weeks. This series goes deep into the possibilities of blues soloing analysing the true diversity between between some of the best blues guitar players who have explored the genre. From the string bending and jazz concepts of BB King to the amazing fast blues rock runs of Joe Bonamassa. Concepts such as diminished scale usage made popular by Robben Ford are demonstrated and taught for practical application. Artists such as Larry Carlton also bring a jazz flavour to the blues and popular ideas such as playing off of the 'five chord' are discussed andutilized. For anyone trying to take their playing to the next level Advanced blues in six week will give you plenty of new ideas licks and inspiration to help you take a further step into better understanding and playing of blues guitar.

How to Use Riffs Bass Lines and Rhythm Patterns for Self-Accompaniment While Soloing-One-Man Guitar Jam: How To Use Riffs Bass Lines And Rhythm Patterns For Self-Accompaniment While Soloing covers the art of self-accompaniment while soloing.Incorporating the styles of blues rock jazz country and funk the jams will help your ability to play chords and bass lines simultaneously. You'll increase your scale and chord-voicing vocabulary and you'll improve your rhythm groove and phrasing. Audio demos of all 150 Guitar jams are available for download or streaming.

Acoustic Guitar Private Lessons Series-Delve deep into the world of jazz Guitar with this book of 10 extended lessons from master guitarist Sean McGowan. You'll learn vocabulary for soloing over essential jazz forms like the 12-bar blues and rhythm changes as well as virtually any chord progression you encounter. You'll acquire a broad palette of chord voicings along with the rhythmic ideas for smart comping. And you'll absorb techniques for playing everything cleanly and efficiently - not just for jazz but any style. Lessons include audio downloads and videos as well as standard notation and tablature for all examples.

From the Classic Hot Licks Video Series-The legendary Hot Licks guitar instruction video series is being made available in book format with online access to all of the classic video footage. This re-transcribed and edited book includes guitar tab and new accurate transcriptions. In this edition ten-time Grammy Award® winner George Benson covers chord substitution turnarounds the Wes Montgomery style and more. He demonstrates his signature scat-style singing on ?This Masquerade? and soloing over the ?On Broadway? vamp. It also includes several virtuoso solo jazz and blues guitar performances. The video is accessed online using the unique code found inside each book and can bestreamed or downloaded.

Take your guitar playing into a new world as John Ganapes and David Roos teach you exactly how to Jazz the Blues in this step-by-step comprehensive tutorial.15 complete hands-on lessons take you from the basics of the Blues before expanding the ideas into the realms of Jazz. You'll learn to improvise comp and jam with the full-band play-along audio tracks as you work through chapters covering: Harmony and melody Licks tricks and turnarounds Basic theory Chords scales and modes Extended and secondary dominant chords Chord-scale soloing and extensions Approach tones and passing chordsFlat-fifth substitutions Minor and major Blues Sideslipping and harmonic gravity The soloing styles of Wes Montgomery and Charlie Christian Single-note octave and chord soloing

The Contemporary Guide to Improvisation-Learn how to play the guitar solos you've always dreamed of playing with the help of the expert tutors of the Musicians Institute.Daniel Gilbert and Beth Marlis introduce you to the scales modes arpeggios and technical exercises that you need to solo with confidence and fluency. The examples cover a rich range of styles from Rock and Blues to Jazz and more. Discover how to use sequences and phrases to build solos as well as a host of inspiring licks.A booklet of examples is included in both standard notation and Tab.

Idéale pour les guitaristes acoustiques aynat acquis les bases du Blues et désireux de franchir une étape supplémentaire. Cet ouvrage commence par un rappel des notions de base, la technique, la notation musicale en solfège et en tablature, et les bases de la théorie. Ayant pour socle l'ouvrage BLUES GUITARE ACOUSTIQUE POUR DEBUTANT (MB219), cette méthode aborde rapidement les progressions de blues à 12, 16 et 9 mesures; puis explore les gammes et les arpèges, qui sont les bases du soloing blues. Comment utiliser les tierces, les sixtes, les dixièmes et les triades dans les arrangements de morceaux; les accords de dominante enrichis; le jazz blues; et l'open-tuning. L'ouvrage se termine par des morceaux utilisant la technique du jeu aux doigts, dans les styles des maîtres du blues. Si vous aimez le blues acoustique et désirez en savoir davantage, et ouvrage est incontournable. Un ouvrage pédagogique clair destiné aux guitaristes de blues acoustique, édité par l'une des plus grandes écoles américaines de musique moderne, la National Guitar Workshop. Un CD audio joint à cette méthode permet de s'entraîner en situation de jeu sur tous les exercices et morceaux abordés.