Product Description

Just knowing how to play a chord is never enough to make good music. Voice leading - moving individual chord voices smoothly from one chord to the next - is an essential skill for jazz guitarists. This book/CD pack by Berklee associate professor of guitar John Thomas shows you how to voice lead both chord tones and tensions, and will help you add a new level of sophistication to your music. This book is designed for intermediate to advanced guitar players. The accompanying CD features jazz tunes, blues and rhythm changes that you can play along with.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #284892 in Books
• Published on: 2002-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

Customer Reviews

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A thoughtful and well organized presentation of extended chords as they apply to guitar, without the same dry garble that many other books contain.

The best of its kind
And you thought you knew some chords! Hah! This book is intended for the intermediate to advanced guitarist. It assumes a basic knowledge of harmony. The extensive, carefully graded exercises will increase your chord vocabulary and understanding of voice leading immensely. Doing this book justice requires a lot of work over a long period of time, but it is worth it.

Good book for a particular style of learning
If you're the kind of guitarist who likes books full of scales and chords to study, this is definitely for you. It consists mostly of page after page of carefully voice-led chord sequences, following the important ii-V-I variations and explaining other types of changes as well. It's great for drills. However, as a theory book it's not particularly deep. If you're familiar with Mick Goodrick's "The Advancing Guitarist", this book is almost the exact opposite. Goodrick forces you to think to get anything at all from his lessons. This book invites you to turn off thinking and start memorizing. Both are valid, useful approaches.