Jazz Soloing Strategies for Guitar is a study of essential and innovative approaches to jazz improvisation. Designed for blues and rock guitarists with a desire to broaden their musical vocabulary, this book shows you important concepts for playing great jazz solos. Eight full-length solos in a variety of jazz styles, ranging from classic standards and Gypsy jazz to Latin, modal, and smooth jazz, are covered in great detail. The chord progressions are analyzed, as well as the techniques, structural characteristics, and material used to improvise over them. This book takes an intelligent and thorough approach to shed new light on jazz guitar soloing and provides you with fresh strategies to apply to your own playing. A CD demonstrating all the examples in the book and for playing along is included.

For Guitar Vol. 2. Par BARRIOS MANGORE AGUSTIN. This is volume two of a landmark publication celebrating the life and works of the Paraguayan guitarist and composer Agustin Barrios Mangore. This book contains 65 original compositions in standard notation plus a unique audio download available online featuring Barrios himself playing 21 original works, including Danza Paraguaya, La Catedral, Un Sueo en la Floresta, Maxixe, Tarantella, Aire Popular Paraguayo and more. In addition to the music, The Complete Works Of Agustin Barrios Mangore: Vol. 2 also includes 82 pages of exhaustive critical notes that shed light on the Barrios catalogue, making this the definitive anthology of his work. More reliable, comprehensive and articulate than any previously published edition, this Mel Bay Publications compilation (524 pages in all) will make the entire world of Barrios more accessible. / Recueil / Guitare Classique