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Resources: Complete Jazz Guitar by Fred Sokolow |
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Complete Jazz Guitar
Fred Sokolow
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(1996)
Warner Brothers #1576235734
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Covers chord construction, chord progressions, chord substitution, scales and their uses, scale substitution, and how to solo in a jazz context. With five complete transcribed solos and CD. |
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Last modified on 7/11/99 by
WholeNote in the Books/Tab: Jazz sub-directory |
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Overall Rating: 3.7 (of 5) |
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From 3 votes total |
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Reviewed on 12/30/99 by
Josh Lopes
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Rating: 
This was my first jazz method. Overall The Complete Jazz Guitar is an ok place to start, mostly because it touches base in a wide variety of topics. The book is broken into two parts: Chords and Single Note Studies. The chords section explains how chords are constructed and used. The book also explains in depth substitions (direct, tritone, diminished false cadences). The chord section of the book is concluded with 6 chord solos. I found these particulary useful.
The next section, Single note studies, has some flaws. The book only gives you two fingerings for the major scale, shows you the aeolian mode but not the mixolydian and dorian, and calls the diminished seventh arpeggio the diminished scale.
The sample solos are very bluesy and horizontal and the analyses of the solos are predominantly relative (not derivative). This book although not great, would make an adequate book for an advancing beginner guitarist trying to learn jazz |
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Suitable for intermediate guitarists |
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