Book details

  • Genre:music
  • Sub-genre:Genres & Styles / Jazz
  • Language:English
  • Pages:10
  • eBook ISBN:9781623097813

The Jazz Handbook For The Rock Guitarist

Book 1

By Barry Marloff

Overview

A quick overlook on progressive guitar chords and jazz to get the player started. Just browsing the book will enlighten you. The book will discuss the 5 basic 7th chords that are a must to know for jazz and progressive guitar. It also discusses the arpeggios for each chord. The book will also give you the chords to a given key (a must) and two types of cycle of 5ths which are found in most jazz standards (another must). This book gets right to the point there is not a lot of explaining. After 33 years of teaching most people don’t want to hear a lot of rhetoric if this is how you feel then this book is for you.
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Description

A quick overlook on progressive guitar chords and jazz to get the player started. Just browsing the book will enlighten you. The book will discuss the 5 basic 7th chords that are a must to know for jazz and progressive guitar. It also discusses the arpeggios for each chord. The book will also give you the chords to a given key (a must) and two types of cycle of 5ths which are found in most jazz standards (another must). This book gets right to the point there is not a lot of explaining. After 33 years of teaching most people don’t want to hear a lot of rhetoric if this is how you feel then this book is for you.
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About The Author

With over 46 years of experience to his credit, Barry Marloff is a guitarist’s guitarist. After twelve years of performing in New Jersey’s competitive club scene circuit where he opened for such acts as Bruce Springsteen and South Side Johnny, he relocated from New Jersey to northern California to the coastal setting of Mendocino. This is where he now continues his full time 33 year career as a guitar teacher. Barry writes and performs all types of music including jazz, jazz fusion, rock, and blues. He has taught thousands of students on both coasts since 1979. Barry is currently working on a series of music instructional booklets which he calls “little dynamos”.
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