The Best of Charlie Christian: A Step-by-Step Breakdown of the Styles and Techniques of the Father of Modern Jazz Guitar (Guitar Signature Licks)

~ This package, like all issues in the Hall Leonard "Signature Licks" series, contains informative introduction to the history, equipment, and style of Charlie Christian, transcriptions and detailed analysis of each transcription (all by Wolf Marshall), and a CD by an in-house quartet that demonstrates the transcriptions.~ The 64-page book/CD package contains the songs listed below. The majority of Charlie Christian's recordings are collected on the invaluable 4-CD box set The Genius of the Electric Guitar (Deluxe Box Set); so I have listed the CD and track number within that box set that corresponds to the transcription. In addition, there is a companion DVD available Charlie Christian Featuring Andy Aledort, which includes some of the tunes; I have indicated which tunes are included in the instructional DVD. Note that the DVD is not by Wolf Marshall, it is by Andy Aledort; therefore, there are some minor differences between the transcriptions/CD and the DVD. Finally, I have also added notes that hopefully will be helpful to people thinking about purchasing this book/CD combo.* Air Mail Special ..... head, guitar solo, outro riff CD: "Genius" Disc#3 Track#8 (alt take Track#23) - also on DVD* Benny's Bugle ..... head, guitar solo CD: "Genius" Disc#2 Track#12 - also on DVD* Gone With 'What' Wind ..... 2 chorus guitar solo, ensemble riffs #1, #2, #3 CD: "Genius" Disc#1 Track#11 (alt take Track#22) - also on DVD* Good Enough To Keep (Air Mail Special) ..... guitar solo CD: "Genius" Disc#2 Track#2 (alt takes Track#17 & #18)* Grand Slam ..... intro, head, guitar solo CD: "Genius" Disc#1 Track#16 (alt take Track#25) - also on DVD* Honeysuckle Rose ..... guitar solo CD: "Genius" Disc#4 Track#2* I've Found A New Baby (I Found A New Baby) ..... guitar solo CD: "Genius" Disc#3 Track#5 (alt take Track#18)* Seven Come Eleven ..... head, bridge, guitar solo CD: "Genius" Disc#1 Track#6 - also on DVD* Shivers ..... intro, head, guitar solo, riff CD: "Genius" Disc#1 Track#7 (alt take Track#21) - also on DVD* Six Appeal ..... guitar solo CD: "Genius" Disc#2 Track#1 (alt takes Track#14 & #15 & #16)* A Smooth One ..... intro, head, guitar solo, outro riff CD: "Genius" Disc#3 Track#7 (alt takes Track#21 & #22)* Solo Flight ..... intro, 3 chorus guitar solo, bridge, 1 chorus guitar solo, interlude, 1 chorus guitar solo, coda CD: "Genius" Disc#4 Track#7 - also on DVD* Stardust ..... guitar solo CD: "Genius" Disc#1 Track#3* Till Tom Special ..... head, comping during clarinet solo, guitar solo, ensemble riff #1, comping during vibes solo, guitar solo, ensemble riff #2 CD: "Genius" Disc#1 Track#10 - also on DVD* Wholly Cats ..... intro, head, guitar solo CD: "Genius" Disc#2 Track#8 & #9 (alt takes Track#19 & #20 & #21)~ The transcriptions in regular musical notation as well as tab notation appear to be accurate and provide considerable insight into Charlie's chord voicing as well his single-note line development.~ Highly recommended to any intermediate or advanced guitarist who wants to gain insight into the improvisational melodic and chordal style of the father of all jazz guitarists (and many blues and rock guitarists).

Wanted to hear Charlie Christian solos and am more than thrilled with this whole CD. Every song a classic. Sound quality is excellent. If you want to know what 'swing' is/was, you'll hear it here. It's also helping me understand Charlie's solos and why he was such an innovator. No wonder Goodman added him to the sextet. The music will make you dance.

This book is more important than any of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Great

It’s transcription are good

Good transcriptions'!!

Nice!

I have been buying a bunch of Jazz Guitar instructional material the past few months. After a long laps I'm finally starting to play a bit every day and moving forward again. Feels great. Getting back into the game the thing that really strikes me is how much eaiser it is to find good jazz instructional material than it use to be.That sets me up for this review. These are great transcriptions (with tab) of some of the finest solos of the daddy of electric jazz guitar. I mean if you want to learn a bunch of Charlie Christian solos then this book is the place start. (I mean learning them by ear is better but you know... some of us have jobs and stuff...)I've been a huge fan of Christians playing in the Benny Goodman sextet for, oh fifteen or sixteen years now. I've heard these solos literally hundreds of times. So I feel somewhat qualified to say that these transcriptions are dead on. Also it's nice to have the recordings Mr. Marshall put together to have everything all in one place where you can get at it easy.Now there is very little analysis of the solos. So if you are just starting to learn to play jazz you are going to want some other books. Mike Stinel's book "Building a Jazz Vocabulary" is the book that helped me start to put things together all those years ago. There are lots of great books out there.But this book would be great in conjunction with something like that. Of course all the usual comments apply. Learn one of charlie's licks. Play it in every position. Every Key. Figure out what it is you like about it and expand on the ideas. And so on, and so on.The nice thing about doing that with a players actual licks instead of say just working through "The Be-Bop Bible" or something is that Charlie's licks are going to breath more. Be real pieces of music. It's much more inspiring than just working through "The Bible". (Though, you know, we should all do that too... Mix it up...)One more thing about starting with Charlie that I think is great. He uses a lot of really simple ideas and makes them sound amazing. Like he will play a line that if you read it from "The Bible" you might think was kind of lame. Too simple you might think. But then you hear Charlie play it in context and it's great. It's real music. Then you start to understand how jazz cats use simple things make great music. It's not all as complicated as maybe you thought. (At least not always... You know, if you start by trying to cop Coltrane's licks it's going to get pretty complicated pretty fast, but I guess my comment is predicated on the assumption that maybe that's not the place for all of us to start day one...)Finally, and I hope Mr Marshall would agree with this; If you are using this book to learn licks please make sure and get the original recordings too. Do your self the favor. The recordings that come with the book are very good for instructional purposes but there is no substitute for hearing Christian, Young, and Goodman just tear it up. Then Mr Marshall's recording is there to help you cue up the right measures and all.Ok, well I'm done yapping. Good luck with the jazz.--Rock

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Perfect and fast as usual. Book is fantastic, every guitar player should get it. Interesting and detailed, easy to play

Hubby loves it, as usual!

Un excelente y completo compendio sobre el trabajo de uno de los guitarristas esenciales, para la Historia del Jazz y de la guitarra en general. Tablatura, notación standard y un CD con todos las transcripciones perfectamente ejecutadas de clásicos como "Solo Flight", "Air Mail Special", "Stardust", etc. Creo que va a ser uno de los manuales con los que voy a trabajar/disfrutar más a menudo!Llegó en el tiempo previsto y era el producto que esperaba (aunque, como de costumbre, la información detallada sobre ese libro tuve que conseguirla en Amazon.com, ya que la sede española aún adolece de escased de reseñas). Todo perfecto.

Ein Muss für alle Jazz-Gitarristen und jene, die's noch werden wollen.Ob Amateur, Student, Lehrer oder Musiker, von diesem Band können alle profitieren. Beinhaltet akkurate Transkriptionen von Charlie Christians Improvisationen.Störend sind die TABs, eine Hilfsmethode für geistig behinderte Gitarristen - Noten wären, wie für ALLE anderen Instrument üblich, ausreichend.