Hal Leonard Guitar Method - Jazz Guitar (with Audio)
A Comprehensive Guide with Detailed Instruction and Over 40 Great Jazz Classics
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3.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
Featuring in-depth lessons and 40 great jazz classics, the Hal Leonard Jazz Guitar Method is your complete guide to learning jazz guitar. This book uses real jazz songs to teach you the basics of accompanying and improvising jazz guitar in the style of Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, Tal Farlow, Charlie Christian, Jim Hall and many others. Lesson topics include: chords and progressions; scales and licks; comping and soloing styles; chord-melody; intros and endings; technique; equipment and sound; and more] Songs include: Satin Doll * Take the A Train * Billie's Bounce * Impressions * Bluesette * My One and Only Love * Desafinado * Autumn Leaves * Watch What Happens * Misty * Song for My Father * and more. The audio contains 99 tracks for demonstration and play-along. Highly Recommended. - Just Jazz Guitar Filled with well-written examples ... bask in the glory of having a lot of great material at your fingertips. - Downbeat
Customer Reviews
Good but incomplete
While I’ve spent quite a lot of time working through this book and feel like I’ve got good value from it, it jumps around haphazardly without enough explanation or examples. For example, relating scales to chords just seems to have been dropped into the book as an afterthought. There’s little information about how to put the scales into practice in a chord progression.
I missed being able to play some of the samples at half speed while I was learning them, and there’s no way to export the audio samples. This is more of a drawback with iBooks’s interface than the book’s content though.
The “40 Great Jazz Classics” are just excerpts of the songs.
While I’ve improved my playing by reading this book, it could have delivered a lot more had it been expanded and the content presented with more structure and staged delivery.