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Jazz Guitar Technique | 
 enlarge | Author: Andrew Green
Publisher: Andrew Green
Category: Book
List Price: $20.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 19898
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 111
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.3 x 0.3
ISBN: 097005761X
Dewey Decimal Number: 787
EAN: 9780970057617
ASIN: 097005761X
Publication Date: August 3, 2004
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Product Description
When improvising, what your mind hears is more often than not determined by what your body can reproduce on your instrument. Much of your conception as an improviser is determined by your technique. If you cant play certain types of ideas, you are simply not going to conceive of them while you are improvising. Even if you could, it wouldnt matter, since you couldnt play them anyway. Serious chops building technical studies for single note lines and chords. Plus, the examples feature a lot of harmonic content. This book is about much more than technique...I believe this would be a great addition to any jazz guitarist's library. In standard notation only.
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 Remodel Your Playing Technique April 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a wonderful book if you're trying to "remodel" your jazz guitar technique. I entered this book with the goal of 1. Upgrading my music reading ability. 2. Upgrading my Picking Technique. 3. Upgrading my left hand ability. I'm presently up to page 45 and my playing has changed remarkably since I started this book. I work seriously on all the "upgrades" while playing the exercises and continue until the exercise is "under my fingers". While I may not be the world's greatest guitarist (I call myself a Jazz Guitar Student), the use of this book has moved my playing definately "off the charts" from where I started. My tone is much better and I've learned hybrid picking while using the book. Working with the exercises has "opened" my left hand and improved my horizonal fingering. If you're dead serious about improving your playing, this is the book. All my "upgrade" areas have remarkably improved. And to think, this book sat on my bookself - unloved - for 2 years before I got into it. It's also useful to have a cheap keyboard that plays chords & rhythm to give your ear clues about the exercises, some of which have a nice "outside" quality to them. I started this book about 5 months ago 1-5 hours/day. Wonderful Book. No Tabs - Hardcore. Ed/California
The best series out there June 20, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Take no shortcuts, study bits and pieces at a time and you will be amazed. Learning to read music opens doors to creativity and helps you understand the language. If you are a person who loves learning, these are the books for you. I'm finding that by studying Andrew Green's Jazz Guitar Series, my overall vocabulary in music is improving. I have all three books in the series and don't have the need to pay for lessons any more.
I'm working through it January 13, 2006
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This book is just what I wanted and needed. The exercises are interesting and I am fairly painlessly learning to read music. The technical barriers are fewer than they were when I started. I am slowly beginning to think "music" a bit as one learns to speak and think in another language ie at first slowly and haltingly, putting individual bits and pieces together, moving on to the musical phrases of this book ie first sentences.
When I get to the etudes in the back it is my hope that I will move on to the equivalent of musical paragraphs. So far it seems to be working.
I believe that this is an excellent book of exercises which are well tailored those interested in improving their technique, their fund of musical ideas, and the overall smooth transition to thinking in terms of those ideas while also being able to play out those ideas more freely on a guitar
Eat your spinach if you want to grow up big and strong October 14, 2005
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Very little in this book is easy or intuitive. Instead, it forces the reader again and again to confront his or her limitations as a guitarist. As such, it is one of the best tools in my library for forcing me to get outside of my head and really explore the possibilities.
The book is organized around independent concepts, and there is no particular order in which they should be approached. My current nemesis is the section on punctuating single eighth-note lines with chord voicings. As Mr. Green suggests, take lots of breaks while doing this particular exercise.
Incorporate this book into your regular warm-up routine. This is not a book of theory, and it's best to only use your brain until the lines become intuitive. Then just let the ideas buried in this book work their way by osmosis into your soloing vocabulary.
A thorough approach to common jazz techniques August 4, 2005
21 out of 21 found this review helpful
When I started playing guitar, for a long time I was stuck in a pentatonic box. Using common four-finger box patterns, I was eventually able to break through to other areas of the fingerboard; however, for a long time I found that many sounds that I want to achieve are too difficult to play due to shortcomings of my micro-technique. As a result, I stayed away from patterns that were not convenient for the left hand, as well as those that created difficulties for the right hand.
Andrew Green's Jazz Guitar Technique uses a gradual approach to building micro-technique. By micro-technique I mean variations within a pattern that involves moving fingers in a small span of frets/strings, with which so many people struggle.
All of the material is presented in standard notation, with numbers indicating the string to be used. For my purposes, I wrote out tablature myself using notation software for the positions indicated in the book.
The book is divided into several sections. In the first section, Green demonstrates how one pattern can be played in many areas of the fretboard, and encourages students to explore such variations.
The second section presents exercise patterns on two, three, and four strings. Each exercise is designed to provide most of the common finger pattern variations. After each of the exercises, Green presents jazz lines using the patterns from the exercises. These exercises are indispensable for developing left hand finger independence, as well as cross-string mechanics for the pick hand. The jazz lines are more advanced, and require movement across positions besides cross-string movement.
There is also a section that presents 5- and 6-string arpeggio patterns. I didn't find it nearly as useful as the exercises for 2, 3, 4 strings because the 5- and 6- string arpeggios are just broken-up chord shapes.
Another section includes chord technique. This section presents some quartal chord structures harmonized to scales, for practicing chord changes. Again, this wasn't the most useful section of the book, but it opens up doors to both exotic chord sounds and closed chord voicings over the span of the fretboard.
Finally, there's a rhythm training section. This was excellent, especially for someone as rhythmically-deficient as myself. First, each rhythmic pattern is presented on a single note. Then, a sample jazz line is presented using that rhythmic patterns. Recommended practice tempo ranges are given for each pattern also.
The book includes a bibliography and a discography, which are pretty short but include a list of standards with melody lines requiring good technique.
Overall, I've enjoyed this title tremendously. It's an excellent book to go back to and practice various patterns. While Mr. Green is rather succinct, he does provide needed guidance for fingerings to use and hints for practicing. If you're an intermediate guitarist looking for practice material, this will work great for you.
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