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Release
Jazz Guitar Chords and
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE...
New
Music Book Gives the Low-Down
on the High Art of Jazz Guitar Accompaniment
Many of Jazz’s true guitar innovators—Jim
Hall, Django Reinhardt, John Scofield, Wes Montgomery, Pat Metheny, George
Benson and among many others—got their chops as accompanists. Alix
Combelle, a French tenor saxophonist who recorded frequently with Django
Reinhardt, suggested the value of the accompanist when he praised Reinhardt’s
“second sense which made everybody’s music an open book….
He was,” Combelle summed up, “a great accompanist.”
Now the innovative new book Jazz
Guitar Chords and Accompaniment: Learn Jazz Guitar Chords and Various
Accompaniment Styles Step by Step by Yoichi Arakawa makes essential jazz
guitar accompaniment skills accessible to a wide range of players. This includes
beginning guitar students and rock or country guitarists who want to learn the
somewhat different approach that jazz accompaniment demands. Why should the
young musician, dreaming of playing lead and becoming a “guitar hero,” be
interested in accompaniment?
“Realistically, accompaniment is important for the guitar player, regardless
of the music style, because in many cases, that’s what the band usually hires you to do,”
explains Arakawa. “Aside from that,” he says, “it’s fun and learning a
new style will help you grow as a guitarist and musician in many ways. Studying
jazz, in particular, allows the player to understand more about chords and
harmony. This makes the guitarist more versatile later using any style.”
Dr. Richard Strasser, Assistant Professor of Music, Clarion University, praises Jazz
Guitar Chords and Accompaniment, calling it “an essential guide in
jazz guitar for amateurs, students, and professors alike.” He adds, “Results
are immediate, and progress can be made at one’s own pace.”
The book includes more than 250 chords and 85 accompaniment patterns used in
jazz. Covering the full range of aspects and techniques, Jazz Guitar Chords and Accompaniment guides you through
progressive steps from such basics as tuning your guitar, reading basic rhythms,
and understanding chord theory to a wide variety of guitar chords and
accompaniment patterns and styles readily applicable to playing jazz. The book
shows students:
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fundamentals, including notation, scales, chords, and harmony theory
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How
to construct a chord and play triads, 6th, 7th, extended, and altered chords
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How
to play a chord in different keys easily and quickly
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How
to embellish a chord effectively
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variety of accompaniment patterns and styles including: four-to-the-bar,
comping, arpeggios, bossa nova,
comping with walking bass, and contemporary accompaniment.
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Each subsection of the first four chapters presents one or two chords. Large
diagrams make it easier to learn to play a chord in various ways and places on
the guitar, and a few accompaniment patterns are shown. The basic, underlying
music theory of chords and patterns is also clearly explained.
This jazz instruction book is but the latest addition to Six Strings’ highly
acclaimed Guitar Chords and Accompaniment Series, written and
developed by the same author who has penned over
40 guitar instruction titles over the years for such publishers as Six
Strings, Hal Leonard, Warner Bros., and Cherry Lane. His books include Guitar
Chords and Accompaniment, Great Jazz Riffs for Guitar (w/CD), 101
Basic Blues Scales for Guitar, and Best
of Miles Davis.
Jazz Guitar Chords and
Accompaniment is scheduled for a July 2000 release, but Six Strings is
now taking advance orders. Call 800-784-0203 (fax: 310-324-8544; e-mail: )
or send $15.95 plus $4.50 for shipping in the US (CA residents add 7.25% tax; LA
county add 8.25% tax) to PO Box 7718, Torrance, CA 90504. You can also order
copies online at http://www.sixstringmusicpub.com.
Book and music trades can contact the company’s exclusive distributor and
wholesalers: Music Sales Corp. (800-431-7187, fax 800-345-6842), Ingram Book
Company, and Baker & Taylor.
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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