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Playing Guitar in Jazz Band is for beginning to intermediate guitarists who are interested in playing in a jazz big band. Playing this style of guitar can be challenging, as the chord changes are often complex, yet the guitar parts should remain simple enough to avoid detracting from the overall sound of the band. This book breaks down that process by substituting difficult chord shapes with more flexible voicings that are designed to sound good on the guitar. Learn a wide variety of rhythmic patterns and work with authentic chord charts that are exactly like the ones you will encounter in real-life situations. This is the perfect crash course for students who have just joined their first jazz band and the ideal companion for music teachers who want to better understand the role of the guitar in their ensemble. A CD demonstrating the examples in the book is included. / Guitare

Charlie Christian was one of the most influential jazz guitarists of the swing era an innovator and accomplished player who brought the guitar closer to the front of the band rather than the rhythm instrument it began as. Chord shapes form a visual frame of reference for the player so it is easier to play the single note improvised horn-like lines out of chord shapes that Charlie Christian was known for. The concepts and fingerings presented in this book have been developed by analysing many of the licks used by Charlie Christian in his solos. As well as the didactic purpose this will be of great value to all guitarist with an interest in CharlieChristian's style and career. A CD is included which features 93 demonstration tracks to facilitate faster learning. Arranged for standard guitar notation with large chord boxes and easy to read diagrams.

Introducing the sounds of jazz into your playing can expand your musical horizons and enrich you as a performer. Jazz Sounds for Guitar presents a clear and easy working knowledge of the types of chords associated with jazz, providing practical, hands-on experience in applying these chords harmonically, melodically, and rhythmically. All the music is shown with chord frames, standard notation, and TAB. The companion CD provides demonstrations of every example and includes performances with a full band as well as tracks without the guitar part so you can play along. Topics covered include the major scale & chord construction, jazz sounds for major, minor & dominant chords, altered chords & chord enrichment, chord shapes, patterns, families & progressions, jazz rhythms, and melodic ideas.

Gig Savers Complete Edition-Corey Christiansen: Jazz Guitar Essentials combines nine of the author's previous editions into a comprehensive book that explains the key concepts of jazz Guitar in an accessible approach. Each chapterincludes melodic/harmonic examples with fretboard diagrams standard notation and tablature. Part 1 includes lessons on jazz lines with chapters on digital patterns guide tones and targeting. Part 2 presents thebasics of chord construction and voicing techniques. Triads seventh chords and chords with tensions/embellishments are covered including their inversions drop and quartal voicings. Part 3 presents comprehensive warm-upand technical exercises. Studies begin at the most basic level and progress in difficulty. This chapter provides guitarists with tools for constructing their own technical exercises. Part 4 presents accompaniment patternsfor a wide variety of pop styles such as folk rock/blues country/bluegrass jazz and some Latin styles including bossa nova and samba. Basic fingerstyle accompaniment patterns are taught with rhythmic notation and stringnumbers. Part 5 presents alternate changes and substitutions for the blues that can be easily transposed. (Chapters 3 4 and 5 also are presented in Rock Guitar Essentials: Gig Savers Complete Edition). Part 6includes lessons on common jazz chord substitutions. Topics include chord embellishment alteration degree substitution (iii for I vi for I ii for V) tritone substitution and many other tricks for spicing up chordprogressions. Part 7 covers jazz Guitar comping an essential role in accompaniment. A number of chord shapes and rhythms are taught in the style of Freddie Green bebop and more modern styles. Blues progressions and anetude are included for practicing your comping. Part 8 presents a wealth of information about playing over the last two measures of jazz tunes. The method breaks down the harmonic structures frequently found at the end of

You know those cool jazz-tinged rhythm guitar chords and moving bass lines you've heard played behind Western Swing songs Texas fiddle tunes and old standards? Well if you like that sound and want to learn to play like the guys in Bob Wills' band or Asleep at the Wheel play backup in a Texas-style fiddle contest or jam with friends on old country standards here's where you start!Nick Forster provides you with the tools you'll need to move out of basic first position chords and into the shapes and progressions that give this style its swingy distinctive sound. You’ll learn how these chord shapes produce the bass lines that are typical of Texas-style backup so you cancreate solid and exciting accompaniments to hundreds of songs and instrumentals.There's a wealth of information jammed into this one-hour lesson: chord theory rhythm techniques new chord shapes and positions plus specific accompaniments to some favourite Western swing tunes including Sally Goodin Deep Water Brain Cloudy Blues and Gray Eagle.

This Mel Bay Gig Saver gives aspiring guitarists ideas about jazz guitar accompaniment in a brief affordable yet informative fashion. In jazz the term 'comping' means to accompany and in some cases to complement. It is thejob of the harmonic instrument (guitar) to provide a background for other musicians to improvise against or a singer to sing against. The idea when comping is to make the other musicians comfortable while they play and to helptheir solos feel 'complete.' This book gives the guitarist a number of chord shapes and rhythms that can be used when comping in the style of Freddie Green and in bebop and later styles. There are also blues progressions and anetude to practice applying the concepts.