Jazz Guitar Technique by Andrew Green Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Jazz Guitar Technique
Book Review: Good Stuff!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book delivers the goods as the title claims. Guitarists should also check out the following: 1) Mick Goodrick: The Advancing Guitarist (Hal Leonard)
2) David Keller: The Jazz Theory Handbook (Advance)
3) Scott Miller: Getting Into Jazz Fusion Guitar (Mel Bay)
Book Review: Great book !
Summary: 5 Stars
Everything is clear and well explained. It appreciate the fact that the author gives his fingerings, which by the way aren't usual. The examples sound really good, and the training is complete. Great book. The only thing that I would add in this book is to write the fingerings for all the examples, not only the first ones.Book Review: I'm working through it
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is just what I wanted and needed. The exercises are interesting and I am fairly painlessly learning to read music. The technical barriers are fewer than they were when I started. I am slowly beginning to think "music" a bit as one learns to speak and think in another language ie at first slowly and haltingly, putting individual bits and pieces together, moving on to the musical phrases of this book ie first sentences.
When I get to the etudes in the back it is my hope that I will move on to the equivalent of musical paragraphs. So far it seems to be working.
I believe that this is an excellent book of exercises which are well tailored those interested in improving their technique, their fund of musical ideas, and the overall smooth transition to thinking in terms of those ideas while also being able to play out those ideas more freely on a guitar
Book Review: Livro de técnica
Summary: 2 Stars
Não tive muita paciência para estudar esse livro. Ele tem coisas interessantes, as vezes me serve quando tenho que tocar alguma coisa (de algum outro livro), mas não sei muito bem uma maneira inteligente de digitar no braço.
Fora isso, se vc não lê muito bem (nada de tab) e não tem uma paciência fenomenal de ficar repetindo exercícios com metrônomo, vai apenas jogar dinheiro fora.
Muito melhor é o Jazz Guitar Structures, dessa mesma série, onde tudo é música de fato e imediatamente aplicável.
Book Review: Powerful Stuff
Summary: 5 Stars
Congratulations to Andrew Green for his "Jazz Guitar Technique." This book is unique amoung the many jazz guitar books in print because it addresses much more than what many guitarists might consider "technique." Starting from 1)developing assertive pick hand rhythmic control, 2) demonstrating how to see and hear the same melodic idea in many areas of the fingerboard and 3) laying down a concise series of excercises aimed at mastering cross string picking, the author develops excercises and lines that are free from guitar cliches. He includes immediately useful chord voicings from the diminished scale with lots of beautiful phrases that one can apply to tunes right away. There is more and I am certain that anyone who works with this book will make discoveries leading to improvisational fluency. "Jazz Guitar Technique" is a workbook with no wasted words or excess musical examples. It's one of the really great ones that do not come along often. I for one am glad that it is not published by one of the mega-music publishers (although it deserves wide distribution) because it is not from the conventional mold. Thelonius Monk has been quoted as saying "Jazz is Freedom." Time spent working from Andrew Green's "Jazz Guitar Technique" will help develop the musical and instrumental chops that will lead to freedom.