Volonte&Co Fisher Jody - Guitare Jazz Moyen + CD - Guitare

Essential Information About This Book

• Designed for guitarists who have already acquired the basics of jazz harmony and improvisation and wish to take the next step.


• Comprehensive journey covering ii-V-I progressions to altered chords, up to creating effective and musical solo lines.


• Work on accompaniment (comping) in various styles: Latin, Swing, ballad, and funk, to play in diverse contexts.


• Highly practical approach: each concept is illustrated with studies and pieces to practice, including a demonstration CD.

Summary of This Book

This book is aimed at motivated jazz guitarists who want to consolidate their harmonic reflexes and develop a smoother, more structured, and stylistically accurate improvisation. Key concepts are addressed progressively, from understanding and utilizing ii-V-I sequences to the more modern colors brought by altered chords, essential for enriching your playing over cadences and dominants.

The work emphasizes practical application: each chapter is clearly organized into lessons dedicated either to harmony (voicings, progressions, inversions, chord sequences) or to improvisation (melodic ideas, phrase construction, solo lines). You will find literally hundreds of chords combined in sequences, as well as numerous ideas to generate concepts, vary phrasing, and better "tell" a chorus over a chord progression.

Accompaniment work is also deepened through different jazz styles, to develop comping adapted to the context: Swing groove, Latin colors, ballad atmospheres, or funk energy. The included CD complements the learning with demonstrations, to better integrate sound, timing, and musical intention. A must-have for any student seriously engaged in studying jazz guitar, whether in lessons or self-taught.

Technical specifications

Musical Genre

Jazz, Blues, Soul

Publication

Sheet music

Instrumentation	guitar	Difficulty	intermediate
Genre	jazz guitar method (harmony and improvisation)