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For Immediate Release...

COMPLETELY REVISED JAZZ GUITAR CHORDS AND ACCOMPANIMENT
NOW AVAILABLE IN ITS IMPROVED 2ND EDITION

Jazz Guitar Chords and Accompaniment—Your Ultimate Step-by-Step Guide to Jazz Rhythm Guitar has just come off the press completely rewritten and re-typeset. Since first being published in March 2000, this highly informative and easy-to-follow guitar instruction guide has been favorably reviewed by educators and the media as a valuable tool to learn basic jazz rhythm guitar.

The main focus of Jazz Guitar Chords and Accompaniment is on learning guitar chords and various basic skills essential to accompanying in style of jazz music. The manual guides a student through progressive steps from such basics as tuning guitar, understanding music fundamentals, and reading basic rhythms to a variety of chords and accompaniment patterns and styles. Main and new features included in the revised edition are:

	1- and 2-bar rhythmic patterns typically used in comping—the most important accompaniment style in jazz.
	Detailed instruction and examples of how to colorize and jazz up a simple chord progression.
	Essential jazz chords including: triads, 6^th, 7^th, extended, and altered.
	Harmony theories: major and minor scales, diatonic triads and seventh chords, basic harmony, 12-bar blues, etc.
	Various accompaniment styles: four-to-the-bar, comping, fingerstyle, bossa-nova, walking-bass comping, and contemporary 16^th-note comping.

A chapter is typically divided into subsections where a handful of guitar chords and rhythmic patterns are introduced—adequate amount of information for a student to digest and practice at a time without feeling overwhelmed. A section can also be an ideal weekly assignment in classroom or private lesson. These step-by-step approach and bit-by-bit presentation help to make learning jazz rhythm guitar enjoyable and accessible to both a beginner and a seasoned player.

Jazz Guitar Chords and Accompaniment (2nd Edition) is scheduled for a April 2003 release, but Six Strings is now taking advance orders (Web-site: http://www.sixstringsmusicpub.com/ E-mail: order/ P.O. Box 7718, Torrance, CA 90504/ Tel: 800-784-0203, Fax: 310-362-8864). The book is available for $15.95, plus $3.95 Shipping & Handling (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 Corporation (Tel: 800-431-7187).

As the student attains a certain level of confidence and competency with jazz, accompanying other musicians will be gratifying. Jazz Guitar Chords and Accompaniment skillfully prepares the guitarist for such an experience, likely to be the first of many more.

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