Product Details
Chord-Melody Guitar: A Guide to Combining Chords and Melody to Create Solo Arrangements in Jazz and Pop Styles (Musicians Institute: Private Lessons)

Chord-Melody Guitar: A Guide to Combining Chords and Melody to Create Solo Arrangements in Jazz and Pop Styles (Musicians Institute: Private Lessons)
By Bruce Buckingham

List Price: $16.95
Price: $11.53 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details

Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com

28 new or used available from $8.76

Average customer review:

Product Description

Master the art of blending melody and harmony on the guitar with this book/CD pack. It includes in-depth studies of chords and chord melodies as well as a CD containing 90 demonstration tracks. Lessons include: the five patterns; chord shells; inversions; voice leading; cadences; diminished chords; and more.

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #46147 in Books
  • Published on: 2007-10-01
  • Released on: 2007-10-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 64 pages

Features

Customer Reviews

Lots of useful information in 64 pages5
I was fortunate enough to study Chord Melody electives with Bruce at GIT recently and this book covers the underlying skills to create nice chord movements.
Note that no Jazz standard complete chord melodies are included and emphasis is more on the chord part than the process of adapting a melody.
Some of the material here is part of the GIT Rhythm Level III core class, which Bruce also wrote and this book could also be used as a nice follow-on to 'Rhythm Guitar - The Complete Guide'.
The material is intermediate/advanced and Chapter 14 - More Chord Voicings contains plenty of fingerings I had never seen before, but which sound great if you can play them.
Since there is no 'Look inside' on Amazon yet I will list chapters;An overall fretboard view, Shells, Inversions, Harmonized scales, Chord scales, Slash chords, Harmonic moves, Voice leading, Cadences, Moving Lines, Substitution, Diminished chords, Chordal Interpretation, More Chord voicings.

The title is a bit deceiving...3
This book is actually an intermediate/advanced music theory manual for guitar. Strong on theory, but a bit short on practical application. Don't consider this a "101 course" book, it's more of a "music theory 301".

Great Jazz Guitar Book5
I've been playing guitar for more years then I care to think about. This book is helping me move on to my next phaze of being a guitarist.