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The Online Guitar Store - Playing & Understanding Jazz Guitar
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List Price: $29.95
Our Price: $29.95
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Stefan Grossman Guitar Workshop
Starring: Fred Sokolow
Directed By: Fred Sokolow
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0796279092784
Format: Closed-captioned
Label: Stefan Grossman Guitar Workshop
Manufacturer: Stefan Grossman Guitar Workshop
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Stefan Grossman Guitar Workshop
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2005-01-25
Running Time: 75
Studio: Stefan Grossman Guitar Workshop
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Editorial Reviews:
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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.
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent teacher and material
Comment: I'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 are excellent but very advanced). I liked it so much that I ordered it along with all the other Fred Sokolow DVDs.
Customer Rating:
Summary: The light comes on!
Comment: 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 fingerboard. Using 5th string and 6th string roots, he tracks the circle of fifths pattern on the fingerboard. Now I see what the circle of fifths is all about, and how it can make understanding chord progressions much easier. Far superior to repetitive exercises and reading tab pieces and spitting them back out, valuable info to play any tune in any key.
If you are "strong right handed", this DVD will help the left catch up.
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Summary: Helpful - but should have probably been longer
Comment: The 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 of the material for me.
-There is also a very good pressentation of how to use your practice time on the circle of fifths productively and efficiently.
Lowlights:
- a booklet is provided, and the materials included are ok, but cryptic when it comes to the chord solos. Since the dvd clearly assumes a certain level of musical skill coming in, it would have been more helpful, to me anyway, if the materials for the chord solos were written in standard notation as well as tab - tab is fine, don't get me wrong, but what is provided here is really a sort of "tab short hand" and it doesn't stand alone by any means - the dvd demo is really necessary to figure out what they are trying to tab out in the materials.
- Also this was the first instructional dvd I've gotten on guitar topics that provided tab materials but didn't discuss how to read tab. I mention this to help point out the assumptions the dvd makes about where the student's skill level is prior to acquiring this series.
So overall, good dvd, interesting, really liked the discussion about the chord wise progressions big time, but found the pressentation of the majority of the material in the dvd as well as the booklet materials less detailed then the vendor description implied. Again, be advised that the dvd assumes the student knows the basics and will be able to handle and follow the information pressented here - it would not be a good choice for anyone expecting introduction to chord building or scales. Having said that then, as a more advanced instruction dvd, based on the price point, I expected more detail on each topic - it seems they wanted to cram a bit too much in one dvd in a set time frame.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great intro
Comment: Great 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.
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