Jazz Guitar Technique by Andrew Green Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Jazz Guitar Technique
Book Review: Remodel Your Playing Technique
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a wonderful book if you're trying to "remodel" your jazz guitar technique. I entered this book with the goal of 1. Upgrading my music reading ability. 2. Upgrading my Picking Technique. 3. Upgrading my left hand ability. I'm presently up to page 45 and my playing has changed remarkably since I started this book. I work seriously on all the "upgrades" while playing the exercises and continue until the exercise is "under my fingers". While I may not be the world's greatest guitarist (I call myself a Jazz Guitar Student), the use of this book has moved my playing definately "off the charts" from where I started. My tone is much better and I've learned hybrid picking while using the book. Working with the exercises has "opened" my left hand and improved my horizonal fingering. If you're dead serious about improving your playing, this is the book. All my "upgrade" areas have remarkably improved. And to think, this book sat on my bookself - unloved - for 2 years before I got into it. It's also useful to have a cheap keyboard that plays chords & rhythm to give your ear clues about the exercises, some of which have a nice "outside" quality to them. I started this book about 5 months ago 1-5 hours/day. Wonderful Book. No Tabs - Hardcore. Ed/CaliforniaBook Review: The best series out there
Summary: 5 Stars
Take no shortcuts, study bits and pieces at a time and you will be amazed. Learning to read music opens doors to creativity and helps you understand the language. If you are a person who loves learning, these are the books for you. I'm finding that by studying Andrew Green's Jazz Guitar Series, my overall vocabulary in music is improving. I have all three books in the series and don't have the need to pay for lessons any more.Book Review: There is NO TAB!!!!!!!!
Summary: 2 Stars
Just an FYI for those who may not know. I didn't see it mentioned anywhere but....YOU MUST BE ABLE TO READ MUSIC to derive any benefit from this book. There is NO TAB!!Book Review: This is THE book!
Summary: 5 Stars
Forget the "Learn Jake McButtkiss Jazz Solos Note for Note" books, this is the book that'll give you the concepts to break through to the next level of your playing. And if you use it even sparingly it'll give you chops to back up the new ideas in your guitarsenal. Even though he's working on getting you play differently, the exercises start simply and build in logical steps. This makes it easy to work with even if you only have a little music reading ability like me, a self taught rock and roller.
Andrew Green also has his own website where you can hear lines from the book. Check out www.chopsfactory.com I've also seen him play a couple times in New York City, and this unassuming cat is a really killer player, comfortable in laid back grooves and uptempo tunes that change keys every measure; he can do it all!
Book Review: Usefull supplement
Summary: 3 Stars
This book is neither a method nor a standard exercise book. It's not the sort of book to buy when you are starting out playing jazz.
It present no theory, and the exercises are presented in a manner that makes sense for developing figering but not for someone trying to learn jazz. The exercises have no harmonic logic to them.
The exercises themselves are all presented in standard notation, and where it's important with an indication of the string one should be playing on, but there are no tabs so the book presumes one can more or less sight read music for the guitar. This means it's not suitable for a begginer since almost no beginners will know the fretboard well enough to sightread the exercises.
The book is useful for developing jazz musicians who are trying to break out of the standard licks they have gotten in the habit of playing, or for jazz musicians who are tryint to break out beyond playing by ear or by tab to playing with a better note consciousness: knowing exactly what note you are playing rather than just your relative position in the scale.
So it's a usefull book, but probably not in the top ten in terms of usefullness, and it's of no use at all for beginners.