Master Jazz Guitar Solos- PG Music?

[markerhodes]

Originally Posted by Drumbler

If you learn 30 tunes you will encounter most of these situations. And you will know 30 tunes.

Oh, sure. No argument there. Learn tunes. But here's an example: "All Of Me". The chords last two measures. What to do? I'm not strumming two measures of C6, then two of E7, and so on. One way to go at this is with examples from Mickey Baker's book, which I have done. Another is to just experiment with those two chords and think of different things to do. Then I have to be able to do that in different keys, so I make an exercise of options for that change, and then the next one, and then the next.

The same goes with rhythm changes and blues changes--there are lots of things guys learn to do by isolating parts and finding different ways to play them. I play rhythm changes every day, though I rarely play "I Got Rhythm"!

That said, LEARN TUNES. I'm with you there. Learn a bunch of tunes and then some more. But you know, when it comes to choosing which tunes to learn, you need to make sure you're learning a variety of tune types. (If you knew 100 blues tunes and 50 rhythm changes tunes but no ballads, you' d be in pickle.)

[tonedeaf]

Does anyone know of other sources of music fiels that are set up for Band in the Box in a manner very similar to Master Jazz Guitar Solos? I.e., real backing tracks (not MIDI) and a presentation similar to the fretboard-staff-tab presentation.

[stratcat33511]

Originally Posted by matt.guitarteacher

You mean like this?

Is this for BIAB 2011 ?
What series is this list for ?
Thx

[Kojo27]

Originally Posted by tonedeaf

Does anyone know of other sources of music fiels that are set up for Band in the Box in a manner very similar to Master Jazz Guitar Solos? I.e., real backing tracks (not MIDI) and a presentation similar to the fretboard-staff-tab presentation.

I'm not exactly sure what you mean, but at least be aware that BIAB has a program called "Master Flatpicked Guitar Solos" -- or something like that -- and it works the same as the jazz program. I know that "flatpicking" (means only that you play with a plectrum) is far from jazz, but a lot of jazzers will tell you that playing these fiddle tunes did more for their fluency than any other thing. They're almost continual sixteenths, alternate picking (normally), and if you can play these damned things up to speed, bebop shouldn't be far behind, technique-wise.

Think of them as etudes that are highly musical. Heh. Getting the TONE is the hard thing in this style. Can take years, really. Go to YouTube, search "Bryan Sutton."

KJ

[stratcat33511]

Originally Posted by markerhodes

We're talking now about the Master Jazz Guitar Solos series, not the Jazz Guitar Master Class. I was confused the first time I saw a thread about the latter---I expected to read about the former.

Here's a link: PG Music Inc. - Jazz Guitar Solos

There is now a Volume 4. I don't know anything about it.

Here's another link
Master Jazz Guitar Solos