Denis Roux, Laurent Miqueu

Jazz Guitar 'The Secrets'

This course, in solfege and tablature, is perfect to introduce or improve yourself to the jazz guitar. You will learn a series of tips, tricks and techniques use by the master. It can be hard to start playing a new musicalstyle if you don't have a grip on the particular technique it uses.
As an introduction to the jazz guitar, we have gathered a series of tips, tricks and techniques as used by the masters.
This solfege and tablaturecourse is split into 4 parts:Unlike rock, pop music and other styles, jazz guitar barely use barre chords and either less open string chords. You will learn in the first part **the rythmics and chords used in jazz guitar. Thesecond part of this course concern the techniques used such as: ternary phrases, the sweeping, the use of octave, ghost notes...The third part is a repertory of phrases that will allow you in the end to built your own solos. Weare finishing this course with music pieces played by the masters: Charlie Christian, Django Reinhardt, Jim Hall, George Benson, Pat Metheny...The exercises and music pieces are recorded on the accompanying CD of this course. Most of the tunes are recorded at a normal tempo, followed by a slower version.
To help you practice your soloing, the play-along tracks can be found on the accompanying CD of this course. Grab your guitar and have fun!