Guitarist: The Soul Of Jazz Guitar:

Learning how to play jazz guitar means working on tunes, learning vocabulary, and studying techniques such as chords, scales, and arpeggios. It also means working on time, groove, rhythm, ear training, and other essential performance skills. While these skills and techniques are essential to learning to play jazz guitar, they can be intimidating or overwhelming to study on your own. If you just want a book of diagrams for making chords and scales on the guitar, there are heaps of those around, this book isn't one of them. It is about inspiration, the lessons hard-won over years of experience, and about how to turn those chords and scales into music that pulses with vitality and purpose--jazz that cooks.Learning how to play jazz guitar means working on tunes, learning vocabulary, and studying techniques such as chords, scales, and arpeggios. It also means working on time, groove, rhythm, ear training, and other essential performance skills. While these skills and techniques are essential to learning to play jazz guitar, they can be intimidating or overwhelming to study on your own. If you just want a book of diagrams for making chords and scales on the guitar, there are heaps of those around, this book isn't one of them. It is about inspiration, the lessons hard-won over years of experience, and about how to turn those chords and scales into music that pulses with vitality and purpose--jazz that cooks.