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Chord-Melody Guitar: A Guide to Combining Chords and Melody to Create Solo Arrangements in Jazz and Pop Styles (Musicians Institute: Private Lessons)

Chord-Melody Guitar: A Guide to Combining Chords and Melody to Create Solo Arrangements in Jazz and Pop Styles (Musicians Institute: Private Lessons)

zoom enlarge 		Author: Bruce Buckingham
Publisher: Musicians Institute Press
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars 1 reviews
Sales Rank: 89817

Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 64
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 11.7 x 8.6 x 0.6

ISBN: 0634032119
Dewey Decimal Number: 781
UPC: 073999956467
EAN: 9780634032110
ASIN: 0634032119

Publication Date: October 1, 2007
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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Master the art of blending melody and harmony on the guitar with this book/CD pack. It includes in-depth studies of chords and chord melodies as well as a CD containing 90 demonstration tracks. Lessons include: the five patterns; chord shells; inversions; voice leading; cadences; diminished chords; and more.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Lots of useful information in 64 pages   December 24, 2007
 26 out of 26 found this review helpful

I was fortunate enough to study Chord Melody electives with Bruce at GIT recently and this book covers the underlying skills to create nice chord movements.
Note that no Jazz standard complete chord melodies are included and emphasis is more on the chord part than the process of adapting a melody.
Some of the material here is part of the GIT Rhythm Level III core class, which Bruce also wrote and this book could also be used as a nice follow-on to 'Rhythm Guitar - The Complete Guide'.
The material is intermediate/advanced and Chapter 14 - More Chord Voicings contains plenty of fingerings I had never seen before, but which sound great if you can play them.
Since there is no 'Look inside' on Amazon yet I will list chapters;An overall fretboard view, Shells, Inversions, Harmonized scales, Chord scales, Slash chords, Harmonic moves, Voice leading, Cadences, Moving Lines, Substitution, Diminished chords, Chordal Interpretation, More Chord voicings.


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