Alfred Publishing Pass Joe - On Guitar + CD - Guitar

Name: Pass Joe - On Guitar + CD - Guitar
Brand: Alfred Publishing
SKU: 115801
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ID : 115801

EAN : 9781576234372

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Essential Information About This Book
• Joe Pass's approach, explained step by step: a clear and structured vision of jazz improvisation applied to the guitar.
• Very practical content: 50 musical examples to immediately move from theory to playing.
• Work closely with the jazz language: 3 complete transcriptions to analyze phrasing, time, and articulation.
• With audio support: included CD featuring all examples and transcriptions to develop ear training and rhythmic precision.

Pass Joe - On Guitar + CD - Guitar

36,80 €VAT incl.

0,00 € Ecotax included

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Summary of This Book

This book offers an immersion into how Joe Pass approaches jazz improvisation on the guitar, both musically and "guitaristically": choice of fingerings, logic of movement on the fretboard, and organization of ideas to build coherent choruses. The goal is to help the guitarist understand how to connect harmony and melody in order to improvise with a rich, idiomatic, and immediately musical vocabulary.

You will find 50 carefully selected examples, accompanied by three complete transcriptions, ideal for decoding phrase construction, resolution management, and the balance between simple lines and harmonic enrichments. The included CD allows you to listen to and practice each example in context, an essential asset for integrating placement, accentuation, and tone beyond mere reading.

The pedagogical core of the content is based on a detailed presentation of the "Three Harmonic Families": a way to classify and exploit harmonic colors to navigate jazz progressions. From this overview, the book explores lines, scales, and chord superimpositions, as well as substitutions, to broaden your improvisation palette. The whole is in the spirit of the masterclass "An Evening with Joe Pass," with a practical approach: understand, hear, then play fluidly over the changes.

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Artist	Joe Pass	Genre	jazz method (improvisation)
Instrumentation	guitar	Language	English

Questions frequently asked

Is the Alfred Publishing Pass Joe book suitable for learning jazz improvisation on guitar?

The book is dedicated to jazz improvisation for guitar based on Joe Pass's musical and guitar-playing approach.

How many examples and transcriptions are included?

The method includes 50 selected examples and three complete transcriptions. These transcriptions allow observing phrase construction and harmonic resolutions. The included CD is used to listen to each example in context.

Does the CD contain exercises to listen to?

The CD accompanies each example in the book to work on timing, articulation, and tone beyond just reading.

What jazz harmony concepts are covered in this Joe Pass method?

The "Three Harmonic Families" are the pedagogical core of the book. This approach organizes harmonic colors in jazz progressions. Lines, scales, chord overlays, and substitutions are also explored.