Jazz Soloing Strategies for Guitar

Jazz Soloing Strategies for Guitar is a study of essential and innovative approaches to jazz improvisation. Designed for blues and rock guitarists with a desire to broaden their musical vocabulary, this book shows you important concepts for playing great jazz solos. Eight full-length solos in a variety of jazz styles, ranging from classic standards and Gypsy jazz to Latin, modal, and smooth jazz, are covered in great detail. The chord progressions are analyzed, as well as the techniques, structural characteristics, and material used to improvise over them. This book takes an intelligent and thorough approach to shed new light on jazz guitar soloing and provides you with fresh strategies to apply to your own playing. A CD demonstrating all the examples in the book and for playing along is included.

If you're trying to improve your lead guitar playing by studying scales that's only half the picture. The best lead guitarists in rock jazz country bluegrass and R and B base much of their improvisation and soloing on chords -even when they're playing single-note solos. In this one and a half hour lesson Fred Sokolow shows you several chord-based approaches to soloing and backup. Covering several musical genres Fred teaches you to:Play arpeggios country licks and fast flatpicking solos in country/bluegrass tunes like Jambalaya and Wreck of the Old 97. Solo and backup RandB songs like People Get Ready and Just My Imagination in the colorful styleJimi Hendrix used on Little Wing. Play Steve Cropper-style licks on Dock of the Bay and Under the Boardwalk. Improvise Django-style solos on swing tunes like Avalon. You'll also learn some music theory and get abetter understanding of the guitar as Fred shows you ways to instantly find chords up and down the fretboard and connect them in chord families. Lots of Fred's solos are written out in the accompanying tab/music booklet and ifyou put the DVD in your computer you can access a PDF file and print it all out in a larger size. Fred's relaxed style of teaching makes it easy for you to add new licks new color and new strategies to your lead guitarplaying.