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Jazz Guitar Comping

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Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-07-28
ISBN: 0970057644
Number of pages: 136
Publisher: Microphonic Press

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Book Review: Too many errors for my taste
Summary: 1 Stars

I ordered all three books (currently) by Andrew Green on Amazon due to the bundle pricing. All the reviews said wonderful things about the books. And I really enjoy reading the lastest techniques and teachings. I'm an intermediate player, having done 4 years at a major university for Jazz. That was 15+ years ago but still I consider myself fairly decent.

I received the book and noticed right away the section on chord voicings was quite poor. Some had unforgivable stretches on page 10, the first page of chord voicings, entitled "basic chord voicings". As Joe Pass said if you having to stretch that far your doing it all wrong. The example I can give is the C major 6 chord found on the first group of chords. There are four other ways, that come to the top of my head, to play that chord in the third position better then shown. If this is a teaching book, the author is teaching some really wacky chord fingerings right off the bat.

So, it took me a day to get over this, I start thinking it's just a style of teaching - the author wants to push you further etc. Then I came across something that makes me wish I could simply return the books. On the same page he displays a C Major 7. The chord is shown with the A,F,D,Bb from the high E to the D string, the Bb being on the 8th fret. Last time I checked those series of notes are a Bb major 7. There is no excuse for these type of mistakes on the first 10 pages of a teaching book.

Anyway - if I find this many errors on first ten pages - I have to give the review 1 star. And I have to say - I don't write alot of reviews - I just think if I can save some poor fellow 20-30 dollars then I will feel better.

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