Blues Soloing Strategies for Guitar

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.

Playing the blues is a great way to lose the blues and jamming with other people is one of the most fun things to do in life! Using blues classics like Stormy Monday The Thrill is Gone Keys To the Highway Big Boss Man ComeBack Bay and Every Day I Have the Blues as examples Fred teaches all the skills and info you need to jam with other blues players. This lesson covers accompaniment techniques for many different rhythm grooves (shuffle beat straight 8ths straight 4 and rock and funk beats) and soloing strategies (key-of-E licks four moveable blues boxes and some chord-based licks). You'll also learn intros turnarounds the twelve-bar and eight-bar blues forms andmore. Fred has been jamming with other players and leading jam classes most of his life and his practical tips are sure to give you all the tools you need to get out there and play the blues with other people. Along theway you'll learn some blues history and hear stories about some of the great players. Plus all the scales blues boxes licks chord shapes and tunes in this lesson are written out in tab and music in an accompanying book in theform of a PDF file. Titles include: 'Baby What Do You Want Me To Do' 'All The Love I Miss Loving' 'Stormy Monday' 'Big Boss Man' 'How Long Blues' 'Hesitation Blues' 'Stagerlee' 'As The Years Go Passing By' 'Corrine Corrina' and 'Every Day I Have the Blues'.