Product Description

Learn some of the most frequently used progressions in folk, blues, pop, and jazz.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #185526 in Books
• Brand: Music Sales
• Model: AM931250
• Published on: 1995-08-01
• Released on: 1995-12-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 64 pages

Customer Reviews

Great introductory jazz book
This is a great little book to start jazzing. Very helpful for me. Due to the small size, the information is very straightforward and clear (notes, tabs, roman numerals and chord diagrams are all used!). It is understandable, however, that one reviewer below gave this book one star and another gave it five stars. This is because the book is ONLY an outline of jazz guitar that just begins to scratch the surface. It gives basic tools (chord extensions, substitutions, various progressions etc.) and a quick example by which to learn each concept. No musical guidance or application is given. If this is what you want, this is the book for you. Overall, it's great for learning what can be done but gives no advancing information beyond that. This book is a staring point for jazz guitar that is best if supplemented by an instruction book that explains and tells how to use the tools from this book.

If this is your first jazz book, it is a seven bucks very well spent.

A great value in need of an editor
This booklet has some inadvertant gems of contextual theory. I bought it as a rank beginner and couldnt make heads or tails of it because it assumes a certain level of knowledge. If you're like me, you've eased into a core staple of patterns and progressions - this booklet helps me break out of that limited universe and expand.

There are some pure errors that are a big problem for an instructional book. They can be found very early in the book and diminish it's value, since when I play a progression in the book that doesn't sound right I wonder if it's me or the book that's doing something wrong. Example, the chord chart on the top of page 8 labels an F7 chord as F major.

For the $5.95 price however it's a good deal. It'd be a great deal at $9.95 if the extra $4 were invested in an editor.

Didn't help this struggling guitarist
I've been trying to improve my guitar playing for most of my adult life. Put simply, this book didn't help at all. I didn't understand much of what the author was trying to convey, and I've had some music theory in the past. I hope there's a helpful book out there for those of us who are interested in learning more about the guitar, but for me this wasn't it.