Full-band backup to 10 extended jams in authentic jazz styles. Includes tips on scales and techniques to use with each track.
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
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Lyrical Rhythm Section, 5 to 16 Jazz chords per tune,
This review is from: Jazz Jamtrax (Paperback)
Tired of trying to get people to play more than three cords or trade solos? This small booklet and CD work great to expand your imagination and explore more complex changes than some modern blues. The booklet has some real Jazz chords and scale ideas - such as E-flat mixolydian over E-flat 9ths. The changes are like most mainstream Jazz with a modern flavor. One caveat -- you need to be somewhat experienced as a guitar player to get something out of this CD and book. Things go by too quickly for someone just starting out. While practicing with the CD won't make you into Howard Roberts or even entertain friends much, it is a great way to stretch one's imagination beyond the old 3 chord blues. Has tablature if you can't read music, sounds good through a portable CD player and headphones - so nobody will ever need to know your secret admiration for Jazz guitar style. No help playing those solos either - you're in charge of picking which notes to play and how to play them. If you sit in with Jazz combos on the weekend, you're probably beyond Jazz JamTrax ( after all, you read the charts and play it in your head before you even touch your guitar, right? ). For the rest of us, for whom no band would have enough patience while we learn, this is a dream come true. My girlfriend liked the CD when I played it in the car (without my guitar work!) - it's more interesting than a plain guitar class. I still enjoy the CD after many plays. 5 stars for price and value overall, -1 star for a couple of corny tracks that would even embarrass the producers of old CHiPs television show. Fun overall and worth the money.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Well its all that jazz..,
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This review is from: Jazz Jamtrax (Paperback)
Exactly as titled! Backing tracks to play over... nicely done with a great booklet explaining suggestion as to which parts of the scales to use with each track and progressions through the track... You will learn from this book and even enjoy just playing to the songs if you already think you got your scales down pat...covers a variety of beats per minute and scales, great improvisation tool. Also includes the chords so you can eventually just team up with friends and play the whole song without the backing tracks.. I now own six from this series and they all are very well done and worth every penny.
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By Harry Kingaby (Coffs Harbour NSW, AUS) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jazz Jamtrax (Paperback)
These tracks are top. Using this cd has spoiled me for the live musicians I work with! Well, no, there is no substitute for playing live. These tracks come close. I wish play along producers would play a 4 or 8 bar intro rather that just starting right in off the count. But this is a critism right across the board of playalongs. If there were intros it would be easier to use them on the job. All said, I think that these tracks are amoung the best out there.
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A common scale used by many jazz soloists is this form of the blues scale, which includes the major third (D) and the flatted fifth (F). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mixolydian scale, melodic minor scale, minor blues, pentatonic scale Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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A common scale used by many jazz soloists is this form of the blues scale, which includes the major third (D) and the flatted fifth (F). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mixolydian scale, melodic minor scale, minor blues, pentatonic scale Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Slow Ballad New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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