Essential Jazz Lines: In the Style of Grant Green - Guitar Edition

Download or read book Essential Jazz Lines: In the Style of Grant Green - Guitar Edition written by Corey Christiansen and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grant Green was one of the most innovative jazz guitarists of the 1960s. His horn-like lines, original tone, and superb sense of time elevated him to being one of Blue-Note Records first call session players as well as a respected bandleader. This book covers many of the techniques Grant used in his playing and provides many melodic lines in the style of Grant Green for minor, dominant seventh, short and long ii-V, major, and minor ii-V chord progressions. Chapters on double-slurs, double-stops, pentatonic and blues scales as well as chapters on the basics of the jazz language will help guitarists understand and play the music of Grant Green. Presented in standard notation, tab and fretboard diagrams, this book comes with a play-along CD that will assist guitarists in mastering this material.