All Solos & Grooves
For Jazz Guitar--Position Studies, Scales & Patterns
A powerful method for learning
scales, the fretboard, and improving your improvisational fluency
while learning cool licks and hip vamp grooves, this innovative
book's five
solos and grooves are designed to be position study etudes that
cover each of the five basic scale fingerings in the context
of either a swing, ballad or Latin feel. Each solo emphasizes
rhythm and phrasing, and is grounded in a single key center and
limited to a single fingering, enabling
you to fully explore and familiarize yourself with the fingerboard
without the added complications of changing key centers and fingerings.
Also covers minor scales and modes and patterns. 40 jam-packed
pages with a 26-track CD. $21.
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All Blues Scale For Jazz
Guitar--Solos, Grooves & Patterns
The only book to exclusively
focus on the blues scale as it applies to jazz guitar, All Blues
Scale For Jazz Guitar--Solos, Grooves & Patterns features
a wealth of information, including many scale patterns, six complete
solos with dozens of licks, and diverse accompanying grooves
that use a wide array of chords, tempos, and rhythmic feels.
Inspired by the work of legendary players such as Kenny Burrell,
Grant Green, Wes Montgomery, and George Benson. 32 jam-packed
pages; includes standard notation, tablature, and a 30-track
CD that lets you hear the examples as well as see them. $19.95.
"Jim Ferguson's books are essential for any guitarist wishing
to expand their jazz vocabulary."--Jimmy Bruno
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All Blues Soloing For Jazz
Guitar--Scales, Licks, Concepts & Choruses
The most complete guide to
jazz/blues soloing ever written, All Blues Soloing details the
sounds, elements, and approaches that make the blues such an
integral part of the jazz vocabulary. Moving from blues progressions
to fingerboard organization to phrasing, this 96-page volume
covers essential blues scales, riffs, licks, lick development,
and an array of advanced concepts and devices, including substitute
scales and extended super arpeggios. In the process, it features
38 complete solos, more than 100 music examples, and hundreds
of licks. With both standard notation and tablature, the book
also comes with a 32-track CD that lets you hear the music, as
well as see it. All Blues Soloing follows in the footsteps of
Ferguson's critically acclaimed All Blues For Jazz Guitar-Comping
Styles, Chords & Grooves. 96 pages, $24.95. "Learn these
smokey lines, and you'll amaze your bandmates the next time you
launch into a shuffle."--Guitar Player
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All Blues For Jazz Guitar--Comping
Styles, Chords & Grooves
The book that started it
all. A comprehensive guide to jazz/blues comping styles. This
92-page book/CD package (with 30 tracks) covers straight-four
playing in the style of Freddie Green and others, swing riff
comping, bebop linear comping, and walking bass lines with chords.
In tablature and standard notation. $24.95.
"Essential for all
of my students."--Howard Morgen
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