Mel Bay Taylor Martin - The Martin Taylor Guitar Method + Online Audio - Guitar

Summary of This Method

This jazz guitar method offers you a rare immersion into the world of Martin Taylor, a guitarist renowned for the elegance of his arrangements and his ability to make the guitar sound like a true small orchestra. Designed as a comprehensive course, it guides you through learning the essential techniques and reflexes to arrange and perform jazz standards solo, with a rich and convincing musical result.

Through progressive studies, you will discover how to build a solo guitar version by combining melody, harmonization, and accompaniment, while maintaining a solid rhythmic flow. The goal is to help you understand the writing and playing logic behind solo arrangements: choice of voicings, bass management, setup, articulation, and how to make the music breathe to achieve natural phrasing. This method is especially aimed at guitarists already comfortable with the basics who want to take a step forward toward arrangement, solo performance, and a more "jazz" musicality.

Each example is presented in both score and tablature to suit readers as well as guitarists accustomed to the fretboard. The online audio access, performed by Martin Taylor, is a major asset for assimilating the sound, nuances, and sense of swing, and for working on active listening alongside reading. A valuable resource to develop your vocabulary, accompaniment, and ability to bring a standard to life on solo guitar.

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Artist	Martin Taylor	Language	English
Instrumentation	Guitar	Difficulty	Intermediate to advanced
Genre	Jazz guitar method (arrangement and solo playing)