Jazz Guitar * Jazz Blues Solos with CD - Softcover

McCabe. Larry

9781585606610: Jazz Guitar * Jazz Blues Solos with CD

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1585606618 ISBN 13: 9781585606610

Publisher: Santorella Publications, Ltd, 2007

Jazz Guitar * Jazz Blues Solos by Larry McCabe published by Santorella Publications is for an experienced guitarist that has intermediate, or better, skills. The solos throughout are of performance quality and the improvisations are from a variety of standard blues tunes. Whether you are a rock, folk, country or urban blues guitarist, the solos will help you develop variety in your phrasing, improved familiarity with the fingerboard, enhanced conceptual abilities and a vastly improved ear. Two solos are written for each tune in standard notation & tablature including basic chord symbols. The first solo defines the melody, perhaps with some decoration; the second solo shows how a jazz guitarist might “stretch out” a bit over a progression. The song selections are not confined to 12-bar blues, but would all be considered “bluesy” in flavor, or at least lend them to a bluesy interpretation. The definition of “blues” is much broader among jazz musicians than it is within the narrower parameters of rock & roll or country music. The CD is recorded in stereo with the lead heard mainly on the right channel. Rhythm guitar and drums accompany the lead. Switching the balance to the left channel will reduce the lead considerably and enable you to play your own solos over the chords and accompaniment. Many jazz musicians feel that knowing a song’s lyrics helps capture the proper mood. Thus, the first-verse lyrics included may help to “ring a bell” and enable you to recall a particular song. Keep in mind that lyrics, much like chords and solos, should not be considered definitive. Jazz music is rooted in folk music, therefore any tune treated as a jazz piece will naturally lend itself to many possible interpretations. Jazz Blues Solos from Santorella Publications will provide suggested ideas and an assortment of alternatives to be taken into consideration. Alberta � Careless Love � Corrine, Corrina � Every Night When the Sun Goes In � Hesitation Blues � Jada � Lonesome Road � Make Me a Pallet on the Floor � Nobody’s Business � St. James Infirmary � Sporting Life Blues � Willie the Weeper

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About the Author:

Larry McCabe was a professional music teacher with over seventy published books to his credit. Larry's methods are written for a variety of styles which include the blues, rock, country, and jazz. His published works include many titles for guitar, banjo, autoharp, ukulele, dulcimer, mandolin, and fiddle, as well as songwriting, music theory, and books for children. An amateur historian, Larry spent three years interviewing members of the greatest generation about their experiences during the Depression and World War II. His Pearl Harbor and the American Experience contains over 160 interviews with people recalling the days of FDR, their reactions to the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and how their lives were forever changed by the attack. Larry lived with his loving wife Becky on an old eighteen-acre farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains until his untimely passing in June of 2010. Larry and Becky s mutual interests included traditional music, regional history, working their land, and chasing critters through the woods with their redbone coonhound, Rufus. Becky remains on the farm to this day with Little Abner, a sibling of Rufus, sitting by her side.

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