Mel Bay Publications
Level : Intermediate
With standard notation, tablature, fretboard diagrams
Series: Essential Jazz Lines Guitar

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.

• Guide Tones
• Bebop Scales
• Playing the Upper Structure of Chords
• Targeting
• Double Slurs
• Pentatonic and Blues Scales
• Double-Stops
• Syncopation
• Minor Chord Material
• Dominant Chord Material
• Short ii-V Material
• Long ii-V Material
• Major Chord Material
• Minor ii-V Material
• Play-Along Recordings
• Short ii-V-I
• Long ii-V-I
• Minor ii-V-i
• Turnarounds
• Etude
• Progression similar to Misty
  
• 12-Bar Blues
• Progression similar to Solar
  
  
  

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