Expand your guitar knowledge with the Guitar Lesson Goldmine series! Featuring 100 individual modules covering a giant array of topics each lesson in this Jazz volume includes detailed instruction with playing examples presented in standard notation and tablature. You'll also get extremely useful tips scale diagrams chord grids photos and more to reinforce your learning experience plus online audio tracks featuring performance demos of all the examples in the book! A huge variety of jazz guitar styles and techniques are covered including: modes arpeggios basic comping blues comping turnaround improvisation chord tones tritone substitution scale sequences pentatonics sus chords polyphonic harmony and much more!

This book is designed to teach any guitarist to compose chord melody arrangements for the Guitar at a pace which is comfortable for both the beginner and the advanced student. Every method used is discussed at lengthwith over 50 musical examples given. The accompanying audio will assure the student that he or she is playing the examples correctly. Topics include: harmonization and re-harmonization methods analyzing melodies dealingwith extensions creating slash chord harmony etc. This book is a must- have for anyone interested in performing as a solo Guitar player. Two full-length arrangements are included which cover the material presented.Written in notation only with chord symbols and fretboard diagrams. Access to audio available online.

Crosspicking technique on Guitar is similar to bluegrass Banjo filling in all of the spaces between melody notes with a steady stream of harmony notes. With applied crosspicking technique the Guitar becomes a forcefulsolo instrument capable of filling a room with colorfully supported melodies. Not only does the Guitar support itself but crosspicking technique also works effectively for supporting other lead instruments and vocals in manystyles of music including classical rock country bluegrass jazz and new age.The methodology section of this book offers the intermediate to advanced guitarist many new ideas which can be added to their arsenal. Thebook also includes a full songbook section with an even wider repertoire to pursue. All of the lessons and songs are written in tablature only so you don't have to read music just count.

Media : Book/CD Set
Author : by Jimmy Wyble edited and recorded by David Oakes
Level : Intermediate
Date published : 6/26/2001
Style : Contemporary
Type : Solos
Description :
This collection of etudes, written during the 1970's, was composed as a result of Jimmy Wyble's explorations into the musical worlds of counterpoint, harmony and chord melody improvisation for the jazz guitar. The right and left hand fingerings presented in this book were also developed as techniques needed to improvise jazz in two lines. Jimmy uses very standard jazz guitar chord shapes in these etudes. however, these shapes move through the harmony in lines rather than block chord structures. This broken chord technique creates a unique contrapuntal sound that separates Jimmy from the rest of the fingerstyle jazz guitar world. It is hoped that jazz and classical guitarists playing and working through these etudes will see many familiar chord shapes moving in new ways and creating new sounds. These new harmonic sounds combined with beautiful melodies will inspire any quitarist to new levels of musical creativity. Written in notation and tablature. 92 pages.

Unlock the mystery of chords and harmony with this tutorial that will inform your improvising and inspire your songwriting.With this book you will quickly learn how to master common chord progressions and how to transposethem into any key using a specially devised transposition chart. Explore altered chords and extended or exotic harmonies in an easy-to-understand way and develop you own extensive vocabulary of open bar and 'Jazz' chordformulations.A CD of superb crystal-clear recordings supports each lesson.