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The Online Guitar Store - Mel Bay Six Essential Fingerings for the Jazz Guitarist (The Jimmy Bruno Jazz Guitar Series)
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List Price: $9.95
Our Price: $9.95
Availability: Usually ships in 7 to 11 days
Manufacturer: Mel Bay Publications
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 780
EAN: 9780786665075
ISBN: 0786665076
Label: Mel Bay Publications
Manufacturer: Mel Bay Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 32
Publication Date: 2002-05
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
Studio: Mel Bay Publications
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Guitarist face a sometimes overwhelming number of choices as to where to play a given note or phrase and what fingering to use. While a given fingering for a scale or phrase may be possible, it may not be practical. In this book, jazz guitarist Jimmy Bruno lays out six fingerings for the major scales which he has found to be the most efficient in his thirty years of professional playing. These patterns are then used to derive fingerings for the dorian mode, mixolydian mode, natural minor, harmonic minor, and melodic minor scales. Illustrations are provided in notation and tablature with fretboard diagrams aiding visualization. By using these fingerings consistently, the guitarist will eliminate all unnecessary fingerings and remove a major obstacle to his or her development as a musician.
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Summary: right to the point
Comment: This book outlines the six essential fingerings that Jimmy Bruno discusses at length in his video. It is a short book but that is a good thing. He gets straight to the point and there is no fluff about modes, and theory. This is information that you can actually use. If practiced regularly you will feel and hear the improvement in your knowledge and use of these scales and subsequent arpeggios. This is good stuff.
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Summary: The only scale book you'll ever need
Comment: I wish I could meet Jimmy and personally shake his hand and say thank you so much for this book! 6 shapes and your done fussin around with scales. You can get on to the real work, which is playing your own way and sounding good!
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Summary: Great concise fingering book for jazz guitarists. Nice price.
Comment: Jimmy Bruno knows what he's talking about. Jimmy has been teaching jazz guitar for years and this book is a culmination of his fingerings for jazz scales and modes. Included are his unique labeling system for melodic and harmonic minor scale fingerings, (but not their respective modes unfortunately). His fingering principle goes by his first finger always lands on the ninth degree of a chord, the ninth being an extension or alteration that makes a chord sound identifiable.
He has his own naming scheme like 6V5 which is basically a deriviative of the CAGED system but extends beyond one position to cover two octaves. I wish scale degrees would have been indicated. He diagrams scales with only black dots and I feel the reader is not given enough information as to how and why a certain scale degree fits over a corresponding chord.
This book is a supplement to Jimmy Bruno's Hot Licks DVD which covers the same information. Nice inexpensive addition to your reference collection on jazz guitar.
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Summary: Guitar at the best
Comment: Jimmy Bruno's Fingerings for the Jazz Guitarist is the greatest and most uncomplicated way to learn Jazz on the guitar. Definitely, becoming a pro is a reality if you do this exercises. In a month, my technique has improved more that in ten years of earlier practice. I highly recommend it.
Rafael
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Summary: this book plus hard work will tighten you up
Comment: You will do MUCH better with this little book if you buy the No Nonsense Jazz Guitar video, they really go together. These positions are worth the effort to internalize and kick those bad playing habits. This book gives six fingerings for major scale, 6 for dorian mode (scales), 6 for Mixolydian mode (scales), 6 for natural minor, 6 for harmonic minor, 6 for melodic minor. The book does not give arpeggios which would be useful but they are easy to plug in with these fingerings. It is tough to drop those bad fingerings but these are probably better than whatever you are using. Mr. Bruno graciuosly gives his personal email address for any questions (how cool is that?).
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