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Complete Jazz Guitar Method (Book + Online Audio/Video)
by Mike Christiansen
Includes access to online audio and video.
If you're getting into jazz or expanding your jazz chops, this comprehensive approach is for you.
From comping and chord voicings to single-note soloing, you will learn, step by step, the tools necessary for playing jazz guitar.
The book is easy to understand and contains hundreds of great-sounding playable examples to serve as springboards for applying the concepts to jazz standards or your own compositions.
Whether you're into traditional jazz or fusion, this book has it all.
In notation and tablature.
Includes access to online audio and video.
CONTENTS
Complete Jazz Guitar Method
Diagrams 4
Chord Symbols And Abbreviations 5
Time Values 6
Swing Rhythm 11
Strumming Notation 13
Barre Chords 15
Dead-String Chords 22
Bass-String Chords (ala Freddy Green) 29
Comping 35
Chord Inversions (Four-String Chords) 39
Altered Seventh Chords 45
Major Scales 54
Tonal Centers (Major) 59
The m7 5 Chord 63
Minor Scales 66
Tonal Centers (Minor) 76
Chord Construction 83
Connecting Chord Forms 89
Chord Embellishment 92
How To Transpose 96
Common Chord Progressions 99
Chord Substitution 100
Blues Progression 110
Pentatonic Scales 114
Blues Scale 120
Sequencing 124
Diminished Chords 132
Diminished Scale 133
Augmented Chords 136
Whole Tone Scale 138
Latin Rhythms 140
Dorian Mode 143
Mixolydian Mode 148
Combining Modes 150
Improvising Over The ii-V-I Progression 154
Lydian Mode 161
Aeolian Mode 164
Phrygian Mode 166
Locrian Mode 168
Super Locrian Mode 171
Arpeggios 172
Arpeggio Sequences 187
Targeting 191
Guide Tones 195
Phrasing 202
Constructing A Solo 210
Secondary Arpeggios 216
The Parker Cycle 221
The Coltrane Cycle 227
Improvising Around A Melody 229
Quartal Harmony 238
Playing The Blues Using Quartal Harmony 241
Chord Substitution Using Quartal Harmony 246
Single Note Soloing Using Fourths 249
Geometrical Shapes 251
Table Of Scales And Their Uses 255
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