(Musicians Institute Press). Perfect for seasoned rockers seeking new challenges and jazz newcomers looking for a good start, this book/CD pack covers scales, chords, licks, techniques and other vital jazz improv concepts step by step. The accompanying CD features 65 full-band demo and play-along tracks.

A handy how-to guide to the scales, arpeggios, and licks needed in improvising jazz on the guitar, all in an easy-to-follow format!

This book covers the basics of the middle-of-the-road swing and bebop-era jazz guitar style. Includes traditional tunes, exercises, and original pieces by seasoned jazz instructor and author Alan de Mause, plus an audio CD with 16 tracks that parallel the book's content. Written in standard notation and tablature, this modest 24-page book is particularly strong in introducing jazz rhythms and phrasing. the author addresses accents, guitar technique, and the concepts of swing, form, dynamics, and improvisation in an easily understood fashion. Frequent, elaborate performance notes and the recorded examples make this book/CD set of particular interest to the beginning jazz guitarist.

"This book is for guitarists who are new to jazz, but not beginners on guitar."--page 3.

(Musicians Institute Press). This book by MI faculty instructor Peter Deneff is intended as a sort of guitar sequel to Hanon's piano classic The Virtuoso Pianist in Sixty Exercises . He teaches beginning to professional guitarists 51 exercises, covering: diatonic and chromatic scales; major, minor, dominant and half-diminished seventh arpeggios; whole tones; diminished arpeggios; and more.

Whether you're a beginner or you want to find a new musical voice for your jazz soloing, these books will guide you simply through a potential minefield of jazz theory and melodic language. With clear, unacademic explanations and over 500 musical examples, you will find your playing developing faster than you could ever imagine.

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