Comping Standards for Jazz Guitar (Book/CD)

Publisher: Mel Bay
Jim Ferguson - Comping Standards for Jazz Guitar
Standard Notation and Tab

Using common jazz chord progressions, the book takes you through three primary comping approaches: straight-four, moving bass lines, and combo variants. In the process, you'll learn numerous chord voicings, ways to organize them, and a wide variety of dynamic rhythmic figures used in jazz.
The use of guides and pivots, chord substitution, mastering rootless chords, playing with a pianist, inverting partial harmonic structures, Latin comping, chord scales, handling modal tunes, and mixing voicings.

And the highly detailed music examples cover most of the common jazz keys. The material comes to life on the accompanying 17-track CD.

• • Straight-Four - comping with Fat chords
• • Moving Bass Lines - Swing & Latin
• • Combo Comping with Open-Voiced Three-Note Chords
• • 7th Chords & Beyond
• • Close-Voiced Three-Note Chords