Sweet and Lowdown Woody Allen's film from 1999 starred Sean Penn as the legendary but fictitious jazz guitarist of the '30s Emmett Ray. Emmett considered himself to be the second greatest jazz guitarist in the world next toDjango Reinhardt. The versatile Howard Alden played all of the solo acoustic guitar parts for the movie as well as coaching Mr. Penn to play guitar for his role (for which he received an Oscar nomination best actor). This bookcontains note-for-note transcriptions in both standard notation and tab of Howard's Django-esque interpretations and improvisations of classic standards of the 1930s as well as original solo guitar pieces written by Woody'slongtime musical director jazz pianist Dick Hyman. Sweet and Lowdown contributed greatly to the recent renewal of interest in and revival of swing and gypsy jazz guitar. Howard's guitar work is a warm and personal example of thetimeless musical vocabulary of swing guitar.

Have you ever wanted to play some great jazz tunes but found it difficult to locate the best fingerings for guitar? This book/CD pack will help you play 12 terrific bebop standards in their definitive keys with tablature and play-along tracks! Major scale patterns and chord diagrams are also included for reference and study.

Iconic jazz/blues guitarist Robben Ford has played with a wide range of artists including Miles Davis Joni Mitchell The Yellowjackets George Harrison and many more.This songbook Guitar Recorded Version: Robben Ford Guitar Anthology features Guitar tab for 17 of his best-known songs including Busted Up I Ain't Got Nothin' but the Blues Mama Talk to Your Daughter Tell Me I'm Your Man You Cut Me to the Bone and more.

The new way to practise jamming. Full-band back-up to extended jams on cassette. Includes tips on scales and techniques to use with each track. In standard notation and tablature. Each pack contains cassette and leaflet.

In Giant Steps For Guitar Wolf Marshall takes an in-depth look at the Coltrane classic from a guitarist's point of view.Topics covered include a comprehensive harmonic analysis and informative history of 'Giant Steps' melodic patterns in linear and positional form rhythmic patterns and variations ii-V and turnaround ideas chordal studies model solos and much more.The accompanying CD includes audio demonstrations of most figures as well as accompanying tracks in various tempos over which to practice.

Develop your own unique Guitar style by expanding your vocabulary of licks and melodic ideas! This book/CD pack will teach you dominant altered dominant minor and II-V-I licks by examining the lead styles of Larry Carlton Larry Coryell Pat Metheny John Scofield Mike Stern and other greats. The CD includes demonstrations of each lick at normal and slow speeds.

13 Jazz favourites arranged for chord-melody Guitar with notation and tab as well as demo recordings. Songs include: All Of Me; Edelweiss; Yesterdays; Misty and more!

Dave explains his approach to jazz improvisation with musical examples that he himself uses, learned from years of playing with the greats - after learning how to play jazz from listening to players such as Grant Green, Wes Montgomery and Pat Martino. Explains the minor sub approach using minor scales to play over dominant seventh chords, and then includes several solos over often-played jazz standards, using this approach. Also described are the use of the blues and pentatonic scales as well as be-bop ideas, the melodic minor scale, and whole-tone and diminished scales and patterns. Hanon-type warm up exercises and Dave's own fingerings shown in tab are also described. Perfect for intermediate-to-more advanced players, Dave's concise way of explaining his approach will open up the students to developing their own improvisational ideas. Dave plays the examples and solos on the companion CD including tracks with a rhythm only section for student play-along.

This comprehensive step-by-step guide will get you soloing like a true Jazzer by providing a complete understanding of chords scales and solos based around four popular standards.Whether you are new to Jazz playing or are looking for a way to progress from your current level Sokolow's approach will have plenty to offer you to lift your improvising and help you understand the potential in these great tunes. Each of the four tunes has a different level of difficulty offering a choice of starting points to suit your own experience.Song 1: First position chordsSong 2: Moveable chords and a more developed harmonic vocabularySong 3: Substitutionsand re-harmonisationSong 4: An improvisational chord solo over a given set of changes.Along the way you'll find a generous level of guidance and support. Furthermore an accompanying CD features all the backing tracks and demonstrations you could possibly need.This is the ideal choice to develop your Jazz vocabulary as well as your improvising confidence - no matter what your playing level.

The matching folio to a wonderfully experimental and unpredictable Jazz classic. Originally released in 1983 Rejoicing has long been regarded as one of Pat Metheny's greatest recordings the songs of which are presented here in accurate and authentic Tab transcription.

Wolf Marshall guides Guitarists through the styles and techniques of Jazz legend Barney Kessel examining in depth fourteen top tunes.