Customer Reviews

Larry Coryell's Power Jazz Guitar: Extending Your Creative Reach

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

Larry Coryell's Power Jazz Guitar: Extending Your Creative Reach is a straightforward "how-to" instructional guide strongly recommended for anyone seeking to learn the rhythm and joy of playing true jazz guitar music. Chapters include musical scores, descriptions of the music's moods and nuances, instructions on using special finger styles, and much more. An accompanying CD contains the lively jazz scores and lessons to better demonstrate and perform the music! If you aspire to proficiency on the jazz guitar, begin with a careful reading of Larry Coryell's Power Jazz Guitar, and practice along with the lessons on the "user friendly" Larry Coryell's Power Jazz Guitar compact disk.

This book is intended to the intermediate to advanced player.Reading the text and playing the scores will put you on a new dimension of jazz music.

This book starts out with relatively easy 4th's and 5th's exercises to get you accustomed to some of the intervals Larry uses in his work. For exercises they sound amazingly good. It then progresses to a step by step analysis of one of his more chordally involved pieces which will take you a while to fully absorb due to the complexity. I'd recommend a very patient approach and playing the CD while following along with the music to thoroughly know the piece before attempting to play it. From there it moves on to another interesting piece employing 'Turkish Finger style' technique. I could explain the whole book but in a nutshell what this book is is a way to experience a shot of Larry's guitar(music) trancendance. It's not easy. In fact it's quite difficult because there's nothing easy about his approach to the instrument. Somehow he consistently manages a greater than the sum of the parts result which is the true measure of a music genius regardless of musical category. This book might not be for everyone but for me, it was a work of art.