Take your guitar playing into a new world as John Ganapes and David Roos teach you exactly how to Jazz the Blues in this step-by-step comprehensive tutorial.
15 complete hands-on lessons take you from the basics of the Blues, before expanding the ideas into the realms of Jazz. You'll learn to improvise, comp and jam with the full-band play-along CD, as you work through chapters covering:
15 complete hands-on lessons take you from the basics of the Blues, before expanding the ideas into the realms of Jazz. You'll learn to improvise, comp and jam with the full-band play-along CD, as you work through chapters covering:
- Harmony and melody
- Licks, tricks and turnarounds
- Basic theory
- Chords, scales and modes
- Extended and secondary dominant chords
- Chord-scale soloing and extensions
- Approach tones and passing chords
- Flat-fifth substitutions
- Minor and major Blues
- Sideslipping and harmonic gravity
- The soloing styles of Wes Montgomery and Charlie Christian
- Single-note, octave and chord soloing
| Arrangement | Guitar |
| Genres | Blues, Jazz |
| Format | Instrumental Tutor |
| Level | 3 |
| NumberOfPages | 100 |
| Media | CD, Downloads, Sheet Music |
| Publisher | Hal Leonard |
| Contributors | Ganapes, John (Author) Roos, David (Author) |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 9780634027369 |
| UPC | 0073999956085 |