Aebersold Tot Zvonimir - Jazz Guitar Harmony + 2 CD

Summary of This Method

This jazz guitar method is designed to help you progress in harmony in a structured way, with a clear goal: to play accompaniments and harmonizations usable on stage and in jams. The work begins with simple voicings that are immediately musical, applied to essential progressions from the repertoire, such as the II-V-I or the I-VI-II-V, in order to understand how chords move and resolve in a real context.

Throughout the chapters, the harmony-melody relationship is deepened through "hands-on" examples that let you hear and feel each chord color. You learn to enrich your comping with passing chords and harmonic connections that give that typical "lush" character of great jazz guitarists, while maintaining clear logic on the fretboard.

The method then guides you toward comping on jazz standards and blues, with fully notated pieces and progressions worked out in an orchestral playing spirit: placement, rhythmic continuity, inner voices, and note leading. The goal is to develop a smooth, elegant, and solid accompaniment, whether in a quartet, trio, or behind a soloist.

Finally, you approach the art of harmonizing themes (jazz heads) : choosing coherent voicings, supporting the melody, and creating a harmonized version that sounds immediately "jazz" without weighing down the line. Thanks to the dual notation score + TAB and the CDs (play-along and demonstrations), you can work on vocabulary, ear training, and timing as if in rehearsal.

Technical specifications

Musical Genre

Jazz, Blues, Soul

Publication

Sheet music

Instrumentation

guitar

Genre

jazz method (harmony / comping)