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Mel Bay Essential Jazz Lines : Guitar the Style of Joe Pass

1 review
Corey Christiansen

Mel Bay Publications, 2001

jazz phrases only
This is a good book for jazz ideas (phrases). Every Jazz guitarist can use these ideas and incorporate them in his music. There are ideas for minor chords , Dominant Chords and Major Chords. However , if you're looking for a book on learning how to play Jazz, then this is the wrong book.For example, It will not help you develop your (mental or physical) skills or help you understand Jazz forms.

Coltrane Changes Book/CD set

1 review
Corey Christiansen

Mel Bay Publications, Inc., 2004

Excellent Course
The author makes learning this progression as easy as it possibly can be. The jam and play along tracks are excellent. You get practical tho not easy chord voicings, arpeggiated patterns, digital patterns and miscellaneous patterns. You are instructed to transpose what you learn and what you compose to all keys and the jam tracks progress from static(same key slow/fast) to slow /fast keys moving ...

Mel Bay Gig Savers: Chord Substitutions for Serious Players (Gig Savers)

1 review
Corey Christiansen

Mel Bay Publications, Inc., 2002

Finally, an easy guide to chord substitutions
I am a guitar teacher. I have been looking for a definitive way to teach my students chords in an analytical manner. I very much believe in marching my students straight up the hill using music theory as a big part of my teaching style. It is not enough just to slap a bunch of chord diagrams in front of learning guitar students and say "Learn these chords or else." Chord Substitutions for ...

Mel Bay Presents Quartal Harmony: Modern Jazz Comping & Voicings

2 reviews
Corey Christiansen

Mel Bay Publications, 2003

Concise and worthy of the price
What you get in this package is a dvd providing a fairly in-depth lesson on quartal chords and a few demonstrations of comping in a guitar/bass/drum trio. A four page laminated booklet with relevant chord diagrams is also included. So what is quartal harmony? Traditionally, jazz chords are built in 3rds - for example, E is the third of C, G is the (m)3rd of E, and B is the 3rd of G. Put ...

Mel Bay Blues Guitar Wall Chart
Corey Christiansen

Mel Bay Publications, Inc., 2003

This chart provides the basics of playing the blues guitar. Common scale and chord diagrams as well as blues chord progressions are laid out in fashion anyone can understand. The note and number of each string and the natural notes on the fretboard are labeled on a beautiful photo of a solid-body electric guitar.

Mel Bay Essential Jazz Lines: The Style of Wes Montgomery for Guitar Book/CD Set

2 reviews
Corey Christiansen

Mel Bay Publications, 2002

A super book
I am a beginning guitarist with a passion for jazz, and as such I cannot give a very educated critique of this book, but as an enthusiastic learner I can say it is just what I am looking for. The first half explains some techniques used by wes to achieve his sound: guide tones, bebop scales, note targeting, 3rd to flat 9 notes, arpeggios and extended arpeggios etc with some background theory. The ...

Mel Bay Basic Jazz Rhythm Guitar: Comping in the Freddie Green Style
Corey Christiansen

Mel Bay Publications, 2003

Every jazz guitarist needs to be familiar with the accompaniment style of Freddie Green. Freddie Green was the guitarist for the Count Basie orchestra for decades and his sound and comping technique were defining aspects of this legendary group. Four-to-the-bar strumming, essential chord voicings and voice leading ideas are covered in this informative DVD and accompanying chart. A must have for any aspiring rhythm guitarist.

Mel Bay Jazz Guitar Chord Workout
Corey Christiansen

Mel Bay Publications, Inc., 2004

This book has been designed to give beginning jazz guitar students a jazz chord ?workout.? Most of the exercises in this book have been developed around chord progressions found in most jazz standards. Some of the exercises will be short and others long, but each exercise should be played fluidly and by doing so, proper technique will be acquired.

Mel Bay Rock Guitar for the Young Beginner

3 reviews
Corey Christiansen

Mel Bay Publications, 2004

Great for all beginners, not just kids!
I have used this book for teaching for a few years. It is well thought out and has some great practice songs that resemble rock standards. Great learning tool. The students can almost self teach with the CD.

Mel Bay Jazz Guitar Standards: A Complete Approach to Playing Tunes

4 reviews
Corey Christiansen

Warner Bros./Mel Bay, 2002

The Best Guitar Song Book
This book, along with its companion book "Jazz Guitar Stadards II," are the best song books I've seen for the serious jazz guitarist. Each standard has four separate arangements - word melody lead sheet, chord melody solo, comping etude backup. and single note jazz improvisation melody. Among these arangements, there are many options from which any guitarist can pick and chose their own ...

Mel Bay Rock Goes Classic: Rock Favorites for Classical Guitar

1 review
Corey Christiansen

Warner Bros/Mel Bay Publications, 2002

Rock Favorites for Classical Guitar
This book is not for the casual guitarist. You must have a strong foundation in sight reading musical notation. There is NO TAB, so don't bother with it if you can't read standard notation. It has lots of good songs but most are challenging to play. "Hotel California", for example, will take some time even for a fairly advanced player to learn. I teach Classical guitar and am suggesting this ...

Mel Bay Jazz Guitar Lines Workout
Corey Christiansen

Mel Bay Publications, Inc., 2004

The exercises and etudes in this book will help students gain the technique needed to execute great jazz lines. A mixture of technique builders and etudes are all designed to give jazz guitarists a daily workout. All of the exercises in this book are written with the plectrum guitarists in mind, but this doesn't mean that fingerstyle guitarists can't benefit from the exercises as well.

Mel Bay Killer Technique: For Serious Players (Gig Savers)
Corey Christiansen

Mel Bay Publications, Inc., 2002

Almost limitless warm-up and technical exercises are laid out in this text for aspiring pick-style guitarists. Exercises begin at the most basic level, obtainable by anyone with fingers, and move to an advanced level. This small booklet gives guitarists the information needed to continue constructing technical exercises for a lifetime.

Mel Bay Jazz Scales for Bass Book/CD Set

1 review
Corey Christiansen, Jay Farmer

Mel Bay Publications, 2002

You get the scales!
You get all of the needed scales to play jazz in this book. It starts off with a few patterns you can apply to various keys - one pattern fits all type of concept. Then they give you a few notes to play - arpeggios. It's good to learn how to read notes on the bass. This book gives you plenty of arpeggio patterns to practice. After learning several scales in the major keys, you get into modes. I ...

Mel Bay Essential Jazz Lines : Guitar Edt the Style of Charlie Parker

3 reviews
Corey Christiansen

Mel Bay Publications, 2001

Essential Vocabulary and More
This book is exactly what the title describes, classic lines in the style of a jazz great. In addition to the lines there are scale diagrams that allow the possibility of changing or adding to the existing lines for a creative challenge. Those people that have done their own transcribing will understand the value of this type of book. While not a Jazz Method ( it doesn't claim to be ), it is an ...

Mel Bay Essential Jazz Lines in the Style of John Coltrane (Guitar Edition)

2 reviews
Corey Christiansen, Kim Bock

Mel Bay Publications, 2002

Good.
I think the concept of this series of books is great, because it effectively introduces the vocabulary of some of the greats in jazz, through ii, V, I, ii-V and ii-V-I's which traslates to most of the jazz literature. This will not substitute for actually transcribing these giants, but it gives you an idea of their ideas and can be helpful tool in transcribing, because these ideas now already ...

Mel Bay Gig Savers: Barre Chords a Basic Guide
Corey Christiansen

Mel Bay Publications, Inc., 2002

Learn how to play any chord in any key with barre chords. This booklet provides insights on how to conquer these chords and make them easier play. Many moveable chord shapes for almost all chord types and practice etudes help students start playing barre chords within minutes.

Mel Bay Gig Savers: Killer Turnarounds
Corey Christiansen

Mel Bay Publications, Inc., 2004

Killer Turnarounds presents a wealth of concise information about playing over the last two measures of jazz tunes. Commonly called the turnaround, these two measures can be difficult to accurately play over for beginning jazz improvisers. This method systematically breaks down the harmonic structures frequently found at the end of tunes and provides melodic ideas as well as harmonic ideas that will help improvisers sound like seasoned ...

Mel Bay's Guitar Journals Jazz
Corey Christiansen

Mel Bay Publications, Inc., 2005

Mel Bay's latest series, Guitar Journals, is the ultimate reference guide of studies and solos in several different genres. This incredible volume for jazz includes a wonderful collection of arrangements by jazz greats Joe Diorio, Johnny Smith, Gene Bertoncini, Bucky Pizzarelli and many more. Covering a wide range of areas including Latin, comping, rhythm changes, blues, etc. This is a must-have and is perfect for everyday use for the student to ...

Mel Bay presents Essential Jazz Lines in the Style of Miles Davis-Guitar Edition
Corey Christiansen, Per Danielsson

Mel Bay Publications, Inc., 2006

Miles Davis was one of the most innovative musicians of the 20th century. This book will shed some insight into the music and soloing devices he used during his earlier periods. First, to help the student better understand Miles' early bebop style of improvising, the authors discuss the use of guide tones, bebop scales, three to flat nine, targeting, and other techniques commonly used in the bebop language. Then the text presents numerous one-, ...

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