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Jazz Guitar: Bebop and Beyond (The 21st Century Pro Method Series) |  | Author: Doug Munro
Brand: Alfred
Category: Book
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 692162
Media: Spiral-bound
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Pages: 136
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 11.9 x 9.3 x 0.5
MPN: 00-0609B
Model: 00-0609B
ISBN: 0757982816
Dewey Decimal Number: 782
UPC: 654979027867
EAN: 9780757982811
ASIN: 0757982816
Publication Date: December 1, 2001
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Product Description
The most complete method for the modern jazz guitarist. This book explores advanced, modern jazz and bebop concepts and techniques, including music theory, scales, modes, chord voicings, arpeggios, soloing, and comping concepts. Over 170 music examples and 13 complete solos in the styles of many jazz greats are used to place all concepts into a practical musical context. A CD with all the music examples is included!
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| Customer Reviews:
 Best Jazz Guitar Method I've Found September 28, 2006
T. Travis (NZ)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is a must-have book for the aspiring contemporary jazz guitarist. Doug Munro has put a method together that opens up the door to understanding complex jazz concepts. In this book he has covered a lot of advanced jazz guitar concepts that will have you sounding really hip and modern - not old-fashioned. Each chapter concentrates on a scale and the associated chords and arpeggios, and he then shows them in action with great example solos incorporating what you've just learned. The recordings on the cd are great and I enjoy listening to it on its own. This book really helped open the door to jazz for me.
Some things to be aware of: the concepts in this book are fairly advanced. Make sure you know the major scale modes well before tackling this book. If you don't, get the first book in this series "Swing to Bebop". It is covers the major scale modes brilliantly.
I struggled with the book to start with but that was my fault because I thought I knew more than I actually did. Once I went back and learnt the major scale modes properly the book made a whole lot more sense.
All the examples are in tab with great fingering patterns.
This book is worth every cent.
Cool, Challanging Jazz. August 11, 2007
JP Champ (Australia)
This is one cool book. I find a lot of the material challanging, but it is well worth the effort. I bought this book not just to learn Jazz, but to increase my skills in general on the fretboard. It covers every aspect of guitar (but in a Jazz sense), lead, rhythm and chord scale relationships. I've already found a lot of these skills are transferable to rock and blues, and in fact seems to make it easier because I find Jazz a lot more difficult than these two genres of music. This book is a natural and very interestng progression from the previous book, Jazz Guitar- Swing to Bepop.
 Poorly conceived..useless in most parts.. April 13, 2007
Tolga Guven (Turkey)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I had high hopes for this book when I first ordered it.. And the first time I opened its cover, I was impressed in the amount of material it included..Back then, I thought this was what mattered when it came to instructional material..It took me a few years to realize how wrong I was, and this was only possible becasue I finally started finding the right material to study on..Only then did I understand how badly conceived and useless this book was, at least for me.
First of all, I now know that any guitar book which focuses on scales essentially (and hopes you will figure out the rest regarding the art of creating jazz lines) is practically useless when it comes to bebop. This book has no chapter devoted to use of chromatic passing tones, guide tones and targetting essential notes. I am not saying that scales (and their theory) are not necessary, but they are simply not enough on their own in bebop..This book has entire chapters devoted to single scales, but the essentials I have mentioned have been left out..(And oddly enough, these essentials are not included in Munro's first book's contents as well..)
The author presents the intervallic structure of the scale introduced in the beginning of each chapter and gives you some examples of the chords that can be derived from these scales. After that, he shows some licks with that scale.. TAB is included, but no fretboard diagrams for scale shapes, because it seems the author does not believe in the shape (or visual) based nature of guitar when it comes to practicing scales. This is a huge mistake in my opinion (check out Jimmy Bruno's instructional videos and you will see how even a virtuoso like Bruno makes extensive use of the scale shapes on the fretboard) and the material presented in the book becomes extremely difficult to absorb. The author also presents the relevant arpeggio structures for each scale, but again there are no fretboard diagrams.. Oh well..
The only reason I gave this book 2 stars instead of 1 star is because there is some good information here (especially with regard to some modes of the melodic and harmonic minor scales) and obvously a great deal of effort went into the preparation of the book.. However, to me, this book can perhaps serve as some sort of reference source on certain scales, but not as a major source for basing your jazz guitar studies on. The chapter on Augmented scale is a good one, (but I have seen better ones). The licks presented do not include detailed analysis in general, and if you are the type of person who prefers to understand rather than memorise, then you will probably not like this book either..
In case you wonder what I kind of books I like and benefit from, you can chek out my (and other people's) reviews on some books by Sid Jacobs and Don Mock.
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