This ground-breaking book/CD package will show you (or your students) how to use the major and minor blues scales to improvise meaningful solos without having to first master all the scales and chords of a tune. Essential for beginners, perfect for intermediate students, and even useful for professional players to hone their skills on this crucial and often neglected part of the jazz language. The…

Advanced Professional Techniques. Par PESCATORE PABLE. In this expansive book, versatile Argentine guitarist and teacher Pablo Pescatore provides a masterclass in the theory behind creative rock soloing. From the ground up, he presents the theoretical building blocks of major, minor, pentatonic, and modal scales followed by triads and seventh chords in all keys, not just the guitar-friendly ones. …

Par ROSSANO RICK. This electric blues guitar approach to playing roots music dives deep into gear, right and left-hand technique, and advanced soloing and rhythm accompaniment concepts, including “partial” chords that can be used creatively while a bass guitarist supplies the missing primary chord tones.The author provides unique insights on harmonically intense chord voicings as well as a fresh l…

Suonare Facile is a method for learning to play the Guitar that's simple and effective. Featuring a number of sections, the book will take the prospective player through tuning, fingering, scales, arpeggios, chords and rhythm, before allowing the player to put these into practice with some popular and fun songs. / Niveau : Facile / Pédagogie / Feuillet / Guitare

Par RODMANN BERTINO. Gypsy Jazz (sometimes known as Jazz-Manouche) is the first unique style of jazz music originating from Europe. It has influences that stem from; Hungarian Czardas; French musette waltzes; Spanish flamenco; and, of course, the music of the Sinti. It was originally played exclusively by Sinti musicians in a swing style. Django Reinhardt, the most renowned player of Gypsy Jazz, m…

Par PASS JOE. This is the internationally acclaimed Joe Pass guitar method in which Joe displays his mastery of the jazz guitar. Part One/Harmony, is divided into five sections on chord construction, embellishment, substitution, connection, and symmetric chords. Part Two/Melody, is divided into twelve sections, including chord scales, altered scales, ear training, whole tone scales, chord resoluti…

Destined to become a classic, this book is the natural result of not only years of playing jazz guitar but also of the author's long associations with many innovative jazz guitarists. This comprehensive guide is one of the first jazz methods to focus entirely on the blues idiom and its contribution to jazz improvisation. It is designed to help you play authoritatively in a broad spectrum of jazz g…