Jazz Guitar Courses?
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Right now, he does not have a course dedicated to traditional jazz.
He has the 24 part "Jazzing Up The Blues" and the smaller "Jazz Chords Made Easy" courses.
He also touches on jazz in several courses like: BGU & ABGU,
Another option is to join the All Access Pass. With that you can request that he dedicate one of the six weekly sessions to beginning jazz (or he might even dedicate the whole month to it).
dvs
Green Mountain Blues
Those are both Bob Murnahan's courses, Mike. I have them because I bought them long ago, but they don't appear in Griff's catalog any more. I don't know if they're still available for purchase, though they might be. An AAP series on jazz would be pretty awesome, I think!
I've gotten a lot from youtube videos by Jens Larsen, Tim Lerch, Sandra Sherman, Richie Zellon.
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ChicagoCharlie
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Hi. I looked in forum rules and didn't see anything against what I'm doing.
The hardcore books that discuss jazz and classical guitar send shivers down my spine and make me wake up screaming at might, so I so I took an alternate route which started with the BGU Little Wing lessons and ended up here.
Here some books I'd like to suggest that hint at the jazz world. The first three I own and have been working with. The others, while I don't own them, feel confident suggesting. While I am introducing an outside author's work, the material, is aimed at building a strong musical foundation with some theory, while BGU is all about playing with others.
Each link takes you to a book page and further down the page are previews of the book.
http://www.bluesyoucanuse.com/bycu-2nd-ed.html
Here is a video another user made of a couple of the exercises in the book.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUocy15wXqE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZBa3STuOkI
The book mostly one page exercises / songs, introduces pentatonic minor and major scales. The author Introduces some open chords, bar chords and and ninth chords. He goes into the I-IV-V progression and substitutions. There is a good amount of teaching in the book and it is not suitable for the complete beginner.
http://www.bluesyoucanuse.com/mbycu.html
Got it. Waiting on the shelf for its turn. It takes off where the first book takes off. Each song has a separate rhythm and lead part. B y page 27, the author is introducing three and four note chords on the top strings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDw0eP_EF2A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e9kM4YgtfY
http://www.bluesyoucanuse.com/rb-you-can-use.html
Bought this after I finished the Little Wing Lesson because I couldn't find anything in the BGU catalog that could take me further in this direction.
Excellent. Each exercise / song has both separate rhythm and lead pages.
The author stresses the major pentatonic scales and does introduce minor scales later in the book. For chords, the author uses bar chords, the ninths, and and extensive use of partial chords on the top four strings.
I have not purchased the next three books, however, after looking at the previews I feel they would be worth while pursing in the future.
https://www.bluesyoucanuse.com/bycu-guitar-chords.html
http://www.bluesyoucanuse.com/jazzin-the-blues.html
http://www.bluesyoucanuse.com/blues-rhythms.html
Hope this helps somebody.
The hardcore books that discuss jazz and classical guitar send shivers down my spine and make me wake up screaming at might, so I so I took an alternate route which started with the BGU Little Wing lessons and ended up here.
Here some books I'd like to suggest that hint at the jazz world. The first three I own and have been working with. The others, while I don't own them, feel confident suggesting. While I am introducing an outside author's work, the material, is aimed at building a strong musical foundation with some theory, while BGU is all about playing with others.
Each link takes you to a book page and further down the page are previews of the book.
http://www.bluesyoucanuse.com/bycu-2nd-ed.html
Here is a video another user made of a couple of the exercises in the book.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUocy15wXqE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZBa3STuOkI
The book mostly one page exercises / songs, introduces pentatonic minor and major scales. The author Introduces some open chords, bar chords and and ninth chords. He goes into the I-IV-V progression and substitutions. There is a good amount of teaching in the book and it is not suitable for the complete beginner.
http://www.bluesyoucanuse.com/mbycu.html
Got it. Waiting on the shelf for its turn. It takes off where the first book takes off. Each song has a separate rhythm and lead part. B y page 27, the author is introducing three and four note chords on the top strings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDw0eP_EF2A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e9kM4YgtfY
http://www.bluesyoucanuse.com/rb-you-can-use.html
Bought this after I finished the Little Wing Lesson because I couldn't find anything in the BGU catalog that could take me further in this direction.
Excellent. Each exercise / song has both separate rhythm and lead pages.
The author stresses the major pentatonic scales and does introduce minor scales later in the book. For chords, the author uses bar chords, the ninths, and and extensive use of partial chords on the top four strings.
I have not purchased the next three books, however, after looking at the previews I feel they would be worth while pursing in the future.
https://www.bluesyoucanuse.com/bycu-guitar-chords.html
http://www.bluesyoucanuse.com/jazzin-the-blues.html
http://www.bluesyoucanuse.com/blues-rhythms.html
Hope this helps somebody.
Yeah, the AAP is where we tend to talk jazz more than anywhere else. I've toyed with the idea of doing something more jazzy, but there always seems to be something else on my plate first. Maybe later this year I can take some time and do some jazz.
Modern blues soloing, as was mentioned, has the jazzy scales needed for legitimate jazz soloing, but we did some great AAP sessions over the last few months that happened to cover a lot of jazz basics.
In Blues Guitar Unleashed there is some discussion of backcycling and in the last few rhythm lessons you'll definitely be exposed to most of the chord shapes you'd ever need to play most jazz tunes. And most of the comping patterns and variations in 52 Rhythm Fills & Variations are the same as I would use in a jazz swing tune.
Modern blues soloing, as was mentioned, has the jazzy scales needed for legitimate jazz soloing, but we did some great AAP sessions over the last few months that happened to cover a lot of jazz basics.
In Blues Guitar Unleashed there is some discussion of backcycling and in the last few rhythm lessons you'll definitely be exposed to most of the chord shapes you'd ever need to play most jazz tunes. And most of the comping patterns and variations in 52 Rhythm Fills & Variations are the same as I would use in a jazz swing tune.