Jazz Guitar Chords Made Easy

Unlock the mystery of chords and harmony with this tutorial that will inform your improvising and inspire your songwriting.With this book you will quickly learn how to master common chord progressions and how to transposethem into any key using a specially devised transposition chart. Explore altered chords and extended or exotic harmonies in an easy-to-understand way and develop you own extensive vocabulary of open bar and 'Jazz' chordformulations.A CD of superb crystal-clear recordings supports each lesson.

DVD 2 - Playing Chords and Licks in Every Key and Position-Ernie Hawkins continues his detailed exploration of the C-A-G-E-D guitar system using his long experience in country blues fingerpicking as the springboard for this lesson. You’ll start by learning to play the standard blues 12-bar blues chord progression in ever position and in every key the heart of the C-A-G-E-D concept. As in his previous DVD Ernie patiently and thoroughly provides drills exercises practice tips and the basic theory necessary to help you understand the principles behind this important system. You’ll see how licks can be transposed from one key to another; how to link chords with harmonized passing tones; how major and minor arpeggios helpyou find notes everywhere on the neck; and how all the notes intervals and chords work together to form a complete musical picture. Whether you’re playing blues folk jazz or rock this ‘magic key’ to the fingerboard will give you the security and confidence to branch out into any musical genre that interests you.

 A collection of seventeen classic Christmas songs arranged for voice and piano most in a jazz idiom and made famous by such artists as Nat King Cole Diana Krall Frank Sinatra Tony Bennett Michael Buble Ella Fitzgerald and Steve Tyrell.Features White Christmas Santa Claus is Coming to Town Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas and many more.Transcribed for voice and piano with guitar chords.

Chords by themselves have about as much value as words in a dictionary; words take on more meaning when they are used in sentences and chords take on more meaning when they are used in progressions. Just as a story is made upof sentences the harmony of a song is made up of progressions. In this book you will learn some of the more frequently used progressions in folk blues pop and jazz.

A comprehensive 96-page large print/big note perfect-bound collection of over 90 favorite fiddle tunes. Includes American fiddle tunes Celtic reels gospel favorites jazz tunes and more. Guitar chords are included.

If you've heard jazz guitarists like Joe Pass play chord melody you may think that the style requires an encyclopedic knowledge of music theory musical super-powers or making a deal with the devil. But fear not! This bookwill show you how to create your own satisfying chord melody arrangements on the Mandolin...and will do so in a practical applicable way.'Aaron Weinstein has many musical accomplishments. I am very proud to have playeda small part with some of them. When he was only 12 he made his first recordings and asked me to play Mandolin on them. I was knocked out to encounter someone that young that was conversant in both old-time or contest fiddling andJoe Venuti style jazz. Not long after that Aaron became interested in the Mandolin and chords and he came by every so often to play and discuss voicings improvisation and the like. I showed him some of the Jethro Burns chordmelody arrangements that Jethro showed me. I've been teaching those for decades in hopes of one day playing them smoothly myself!Fast forward a few more years and Aaron has a Berklee degree traveled the worldplaying hot Violin music and is hobnobbing with the greatest NYC jazz stars. And oh yeah one other thing: he took the art of chord-melody Mandolin style to an entirely new level! The rich harmonies of the standard jazz and showtune repertoire the swinging bass lines and connecting chords and independent voice movements (doing more than one thing at a time) are all present in Aaron's style thanks to his great ear open mind and gift at locating thingson the fretboard. And now Aaron has documented explained and shared his discoveries and approach with all of us in this book. Thank you Aaron!This is truly a step-by-step method that you will enjoy. You'll findyourself saying 'oh of course!' as the author gets you playing and understanding things that sound very detailed and complex. The first section I would call the mandolinistic stuff: the how-to on getting things moving and