For
Immediate Release…
Savvy Comprehensive Guide Now Available
for Accelerating Jazz Guitar Playing Skills
This
intermediate manual offers systematic self-study to improve the
student’s jazz chord vocabulary and
their comping skills!
Here
is an intelligently organized new book that will help anyone who is
anxious to move up to the next level of jazz guitar playing. More
Jazz Guitar Chords and Accompaniment —
A
Complete and Comprehensive Guide to Advancing Your Jazz
Guitar-Playing Skills! (Six Strings Music Publishing;
ISBN 1-891370-08-1) is the much-anticipated sequel to the previously
published Jazz Guitar Chords and
Accompaniment. It is also the latest book by Yoichi Arakawa,
author/arranger of over 40 guitar instruction books. The official
release date is April 2002 and it has just been made available for
ordering.
While the first book offered the general
introduction to the basic jazz guitar accompaniment, the main focus
of More
Jazz Guitar Chords and Accompaniment shifts to comping—one
of the most vital elements in jazz accompaniment. After presenting
common guitar chord voicings such as drop
2 and drop 3
with easy-to-follow diagrams, and deliberately explaining about the
chord synonyms and substitutions, the guide discusses in detail
various techniques and principles involved in comping.
You can find many
guitar chord books or jazz guitar instruction manuals on the market,
but few provide all the needed resources in one concise and
comprehensive format:
·
Thorough presentations of the most accessible and
popular guitar chord voicings: Drop 2 and Drop 3.
·
Other popular and modern chord voicings: Three-Note
Open, Guide Tones, and Fourth.
·
Various common rhythmic patterns applicable in
comping.
·
Chord synonyms and substitution rules and their
applications in accompaniment.
·
Practical and comprehensible music examples and
exercises.
The
author, Yoichi Arakawa, is a graduate of the Berklee College of
Music and the Guitar Institute of Technology. He has penned more
than forty books, including Jazz Guitar Chords and Accompaniment,
Great Jazz Riffs for Guitar, You Too Can Play Jazz Guitar,
A Fingerstyle Christmas, Best of Count Basie, and Best of
Miles Davis.
The book is available
for $15.95, plus $5.50 S & H (L.A. County residents add 8.25%
sales tax / other CA residents add 7.25% sales tax). Dealers can
order from the company’s exclusive distributor, Music Sales (Tel:
800-431-7187/Fax: 800-345-6842). Further inquiries at Six Strings
Music Publishing (P.O. Box 7718, Torrance, CA 90504/ Tel:
800-784-0203, Fax: 310-324-8544/ E-mail:
contact/ Web: www.sixstringsmusicpub.com).
###
