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- Complete Jazz Guitar Method. (DVD) This DVD set, combines all of the material as previously presented in the two-volume video set, closely paralleling the landmark book of the same title. The DVD guides the guitarist through barre chords, dead-string chords, bass-string chords, comping, chord inversions, altered seventh chords, major scales, the concept of tonal centers, chord construction, ways of connecting chord forms, chord embellishment, transposition, chord substitution, blues progressions, pentatonic and blues scales, sequencing, diminished chords and the diminished scale, augmented chords, and the whole-tone scale. This DVD jazz guitar method, also presents Latin rhythms, the Dorian and Mixolydian modes applied both separately and in combination, improvising over the ii-V-I progression in various keys, the Lydian, Aeolian, Phrygian, Locrian, and Super Locrian modes, targeting of chord tones, guide tones, phrasing, constructing a solo, secondary arpeggios, the Parker Cycle, improvising around a melody, quartal harmony as applied to the blues, chord substitution using quartal harmony, single-note soloing using fourths, and the concept of moving geometrical chord shapes from one fret to another, or from one set of strings to another. The author’s hands-on demonstration of these techniques and concepts, makes this DVD a valuable addition to any aspiring jazz guitarist’s video library.
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