Guitar Scale Guru

All of the essential diagrams drawings and information concerning theory scales and their uses in one easy-to-use book! Covers the five essential scales for today's guitarists-major major pentatonic minor minor pentatonic and blues-with a unique Linking System that makes it easy to understand scales like a pro!

Description In Comping Standards For Jazz Guitar renowned Guitar guru and author Jim Ferguson helps you to take your playing to the next level. Using common jazz chord progressions, this book takes you through three primary comping approaches: straight-four, moving bass lines and combo variants. In the process, you'll learn numerous chord voicings, ways to organize them and a wide variety of dynamic rhythmic figures used in jazz. Other highlights include the use of guides and pivots, chord substitution, mastering rootless chords, playing with a pianist, inverting partial harmonic structures, Latin comping, chord scales, handling modal tunes and mixing voicings. The highly detailed music examples cover most of the common jazz keys and the material comes to life on the accompanying 17-track CD. The pieces featured in Comping Standards For Jazz Guitar are in both standard notation and tablature. All The Things You Want Always Autumn Confirmation Blues Deep Blue Bossa Five Minus One Gnawing On The Apple Into Somewhere Minor Blues Rhythm Changes Un Peu Blues We Can?t Be Parted