Guitar Methods

This comprehensive guide to jazz ear training focuses the student on developing the ability to hear and react to harmonic structures common to the modern jazz idiom, while adhering to specific melodic...

One of the world's great jazz guitarists, Vic Juris shares his insight into the wonderful world of harmony in this book. Not for the fainthearted, Juris teaches polychords and intervallic structures d...

Vic Juris played the solos in this collection with the student in mind. Each piece is based on the changes of popular jazz standards and will serve as great etudes for learning advanced jazz soloing t...

Never wonder how to play certain jazz chords on guitar again with this easy-to-use and comprehensive text. Also an excellent reference book, this book presents a plethora of chords and voicings common...

Written by jazz guitar great Michael Anthony who states, 'This book is an attempt to eliminate, or at the minimum decrease the frequency of such 'deer in the headlights' sputters and stalls and the th...

A comprehensive 96-page, large print perfect-bound jazz chord dictionary containing essential barre chord and rhythm chord forms. Included are chord froms ranging from major, minor and dominant 7th sh...

Learn to play bluegrass jazz Guitar with this instructional book and 3 x CD set. When first listening to flatpicking Guitar legends Doc Watson and Clarence White, Barry Solomon was particularly attrac...

Since the arrival on the jazz scene of John Coltrane, more and more guitarists are looking to incorporate colors into their language which are more dissonant than those generally heard within the real...

If you've ever wondered about the depth of thought vs. pattern playing that goes into jazz guitar improvisation, you'll find the answer in this book. University of North Texas jazz guitar instructor a...

In Street Knowledge Michael Anthony shares the stories and lessons learned in his career as a top Los Angeles recording studio guitarist. The insights shared into the world of jazz guitar and studio p...

It is satisfying to play a piece of music that sounds great on just one guitar. Beethoven said, The guitar is a miniature orchestra in itself.Volume Two of Beyond Chord Melody adds 36 songs to your re...

This is the internationally acclaimed Joe Pass guitar method in which Joe displays his mastery of the jazz guitar. Part One/Harmony, is divided into five sections on chord construction, embellishment,...

One of the finest books available on jazz guitar chords. Joe covers all the bases with two sections on chord forms and chord passages. Chords are divided into six categories: Major, Seventh, Augmented...

This is a very comprehensive text that combines theory, harmony and voicing material with emphasis placed on voice leading. Although this book's primary focus is on four-note chord voicings on the mid...

If you're getting into jazz or expanding your jazz chops, this comprehensive approach is for you. From comping and chord voicings to single-note soloing, you will learn, step by step, the tools necess...

Larry Coryell discusses and illustrates scales, modes, finger exercises, improvisation and chords. This book offers notation, tablature, and three audio CDs for the intermediate to advanced student.

This book is designed to teach any guitarist to compose chord melody arrangements for the Guitar, at a pace which is comfortable for both the beginner and the advanced student. Every method used is di...

This book contains a study and breakdown of 'harmony in 4ths'. The introduction of quartal harmony in modern jazz began in the 1960's. Compositions by Miles Davis and John Coltrane such as 'Impression...

A comprehensive jazz chord dictionary containing essential barre chord and rhythm chord forms. Included are chord forms ranging from major, minor, and dominant 7th shapes to extensions such as minor 7...

By offering you the possibility to evolve in actual group situations, this coursebook not only teaches you how to perform, but also how to spice up your jazz accompaniments. The enclosed CD contains 1...

By offering you the possibility to practice jazz improvisations, this coursebook teaches you how to solo in this very particular style, letting you perform in a musical environment which simulates act...

With its 200 licks and phrases, conceived by the most famous guitarists, this coursebook is a veritable Jazz-cyclopedia imperative for everyone working on Jazz. The licks in this coursebook are themat...

The school offers all-round training from elementary to advanced. The elements are: Solo, harmony, rhythm, fingerstyle, plectrum technique.

This course, in solfege and tablature, is perfect to introduce or improve yourself to the jazz guitar. You will learn a series of tips, tricks and techniques use by the master. It can be hard to start...

The essential soloing theory course for all guitarists from one of the most distinctive guitar players on the music scene today. The method is structured around six basic chordal types approached five...