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The Complete Jazz Guitar

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It's a very good book for people who play the guitar for at least 4 years and search some initiation to jazz. Reading the book I found out that it is also very good from the educational point of view, unambiguous with graduated difficulty

If you want to play jazz; and want to play rather than learn a load of theory - this is the book for you. It's got some great solo pieces in it and demo'd on the CD. A ton of chord charts and performance notes finish the book off as a great intro to playing jazz - - - then you'll want to go back and do the theory. You'll need to be an intermediate guiarist to get the best out of this - but a player of a year could dig in and wow everyone after working hard on these solos. I wish this book had been written 30 years ago when I started to get interested in jazz.

I've had a copy of this book since the 90's and learned quite a bit from it.The explanations of chords and scales relationships is one of the easiest to understand for someone without a guitar teacher.The chord melody song arrangements are given with explanations about chord substitutions and how to arrange a typical song for guitar.There is a cassette tape and/or CD companion that will help you hear the techniques Fred is teaching.There's a great deal of information in this one book and you'll get a good head start in jazz guitar if you take the time to study a few pages at a time and master each lesson.I've bought many of Fred's books and videos over the last 20 years and I've gotten some useful information from them all.This book(and especially the tape/CD)is getting harder and harder to find,so if you find it at the right price,you'll learn a lot jazz guitar from it if you buy it.Highly recommended.