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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: G (General Audience) Binding: DVD EAN: 0796279092784 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC Label: Stefan Grossman Guitar Workshop Languages: Manufacturer: Stefan Grossman Guitar Workshop Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Stefan Grossman Guitar Workshop Region Code: 1 Release Date: January 25, 2005 Running Time: 75 minutes Studio: Stefan Grossman Guitar Workshop Editorial Review: Product Description: Jazz is one of the most challenging and satisfying styles of music you can play on the guitar. This video lesson presents a very clear and thorough introduction to jazz guitar. You will study all the licks, chords, scales and theory that you will need to know to get started. In this 75 minute lesson, Fred Sokolow shows you: Chord construction and chord types, including inversions and diminished chords Scalewise progressions and how to use them Circle-of-fifths progressions and how to play and recognize them Chord comping, chord soloing and playing single-note solos to standards like I Got Rhythm, Honeysuckle Rose and Watch What Happens How to improvise solos using scales and chord-based licks How to solo over II-V-I standard changes A detailed tab/music instructional booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Excellent teacher and materialI'm an intermediate level player and I've tried many instructional DVDs through NetFlix. This disk is by far the best I've run across. Last year I methodically learned most chords with 5th and 6th string roots but I didn't really understand how to put them together well. If you know your chords well and understand basic music theory and simple chord progressions, this is an excellent DVD. It's definitely not for beginners but it's not as advanced as the Joe Pass and Tuck Andress lessons (which ... Read More Rating: - The light comes on!I had been looking for some time for an introduction to jazz for the intermediate player who wants to play more complex material, in particular vocal accompaniment of Tin Pan Alley classics. I knew the chord shapes and positions, and have a good fingerstyle right hand technique, I just needed the key to how it fits together. Thanks to Fred, the light is coming on - circle of fifths progressions, scalewise progressions, i.e. how jazz players think. Fred explains everything in terms of the guitar ... Read More Rating:  - Helpful - but should have probably been longerThe instructor on this video is fairly charming so it helps with the material pressentation which is really packed with info (but not at as much detail as implied in the product description). Highlights: -This dvd has the best explaination and demonstration of scalewise progressions that I've ever seen and it pays for itself in that info because the instructor shows how to practice these to hear and identify the movement as components of various popular songs. It was the best part ... Read More Rating: - Great introGreat intro to jazz guitar: easy, relaxed instruction, clear explanations of scalewise chord progression, chord construction, and soloing (improvising using either single note or chord based approaches). There are some good tunes to learn and practice with good chord diagrams and tab. |
