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Jazzin' the Blues: A Complete Guide to Learning Jazz-Blues Guitar (Book & CD)

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Jazzin' the Blues an excellent resource for taking the blues to the next level. Stuffed into 100 pages is an incredible amount of material that will keep you busy for a long, long time. I have a couple of other John Ganapes books and they are certainly good for the basics. However, this is my favorite because it covers more advanced topics: seventh chord structures, ii-V-I progressions, extended ii-V-I progressions, secondary dominant chords, flat-five substitution, minor blues harmony, major & minor chord substitutions, and a lot more. If you want to break out of the pentatonic box, this will propel you forward.

I liked this book/CD as it allowed me to play along with the music right away. I am a blues/rock player of modest ability, so I found this approach to jazz for people with a blues background a perfect introduction to the form. The theory is clear, the explanations lucid, the tablature flawless. The best part of this package is the music! It is very cool, nice and jazzy, yet blues players can relate to the structure and so learn very quickly. The accompanying CD is beautifully played by live musicians with the subtleties of touch, dynamics, and artistic phrasing that are perhaps the most important lessons one can learn from this outstanding package. Well done! Highly recommended for beginner/intermediate players who nevertheless enjoy stretching their musical range.

If you've soaked yourself in blues guitar and want to extend your knowledge and capability on the guitar then this book and CD combo will help you get there. It will help take you from Muddy, Freddie and John Lee ( though we still love them! ) toward the realm of Kenny Burrell, Wes Montgomery, Herb Ellis and Barney Kessell. Brilliantly conceived and organised with a fantastic CD. Add some Super Cool jazzbo blues to your axegrinding. Great fun!

This book has it all, easy to understand, lots of different styles. I had never played jazz and I wanted to learn more about it. this book went way beyond my expectations.The book has the accompaniment and the solo part to all the tunes ( lot of them ) in the book. I think if you take this book one step at a time ,soon you'll be able to jam with anybody.

I have to say that I was very disappointed when I first received this book. I have his other two books on the blues and rate them the best out there. The reason I was initially disappointed was because the songs appeared at first glance to be very simple - even near the back they appeared to be only slightly challenging. I was wrong - these are the most frustrating songs to learn, probably in part because they look so easy. I can't really explain why, but I think its because my fingers have become accustomed to 'moving' in blues fashion, and these songs don't. With that said, I highly recommend this as a way for use blues guys to transition into the jazz world. It's frustrating, but not to the point of wanting to give up.

A great book on jazz blues guitar. The examples in this book sound great and are fairly easy to play. The theory explanations are very good and show you how to break out of pentatonic patterns while still being easy to understand. The accompanying CD with the book is excellent.

i have lots and lots of jazz guitar instruction books but i keep coming back to this one,i wish he would do one on the standards as well.the lines are memorable enough to memorize.but when soloing you will probably only use bits and pieces of his lines,or at least thats what i do

Save your money and buy somthing descent .The book has no jazz lines in it watsoever and the songs are so easy and boring it made me cry
:( complete waste of money ,It has alot of scales and theory >But you can get that stuff for free of the net it aint nothing special ,I have bouht alot of guitar books from amazon THIS IS BY FAR THE WORST .I really dont know what the other people who reviwed this book are on but i want some!!!