The Herb Ellis Jazz Guitar Method: All the Shapes You Are, Book & CD

of the more than a few jazz lesson books i've purchased, this one is unique. He displays page long improvisations on a single chord in a single position at a time. This allows one to get a firmer feel for a jam on a given chord. the language is there but at a beginner's level... almost a swing style compared to more complex bebop. definitely worth checking out IMO.

You should be fairly advanced before buying. Great. But not for the beginner.

What a great down to earth style. Check him out, you will feel it to.Kinda humble but with a good sense of humor. Like Chet Atkins on warm milk.

I'm so glad with my order

Excellent method!

Great series of books for tips on playing jazz guitar. Having to have so many words is one of the reasons I don't review most items

This is the third and final volume in Herb's "shape system" trilogy. (The place to start is "Swing Blues," followed by "Rhythm Shapes," which gives you many eight-bar phrases and two full choruses of soloing over rhythm changes.) The chord progression focused on here is "All The Things You Are," one of the must-know standards.The book / disc ends with a two-chorus solo which any aspiring jazz guitarist should be proud to duplicate. But the meat of the book lies in the "vamps" Herb offers over the chords of the tune. He uses "vamp" in an unusual way: he means to play out of one chord shape for an extended period (-8 bars or more, sometimes 16.) He gives you his 'vamps' on each chord in this 36-bar tune and learning them ingrains the 'shape system' in player's ear and fingers. These vamps are made of top-drawer lines that can be experimented with and "cannibalized" for an intro here, a fill here, and so on.Herb's system is a simple one but the only limits to it are those of a player's imagination and heart / feel. This is great stuff that will never wear out.

Most jazz methods start you off learning a number of scale forms and a few dozen arpeggios before introducing an actual tune. Herb does it differently. He starts with a bare minimum of arpeggios- major, m7, dom7- and shows you what can be done working from them. The object is to get you making music on your own as quickly as possible, and I think this method works very well. If you know some basic movable chord forms, can read either music or tab, and can pick out a few melodies on guitar, you've got all the skills needed to tackle this book, but I'd recommend starting with Herb's  The Herb Ellis Jazz Guitar Method : Swing Blues , and then moving on to this book and his  The Herb Ellis Jazz Guitar Method: Rhythm Shapes , which concentrates on playing through standard rhythm changes in Bb.

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