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Chord Tone Soloing: A Guitarist's Guide to Melodic Improvising in Any Style (Musicians Institute: Private Lessons) [Paperback]

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  • Paperback: 112 pages
  • Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation; Pap/Com edition (24 July 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0634083651
  • ISBN-13: 978-0634083655
  • Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 1 x 30.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 17,512 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Learn how the professional create monster solos with this easy to use book and CD package! The accompanying CD includes 68 tracks of exercises, licks, solo examples, and play-alongs. It includes all necessary foundation materials; detailed instructions on how and what to practice; essential concepts for players at every level; developing your real-time melodic reflexes; soloing over any profession in any style of music; using chords as an endless source of ideas; and more!

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32 of 32 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Few Very Good Guitar Books out there 18 Feb 2009
By Mac
Format:Paperback
This book does exactly what is says on the cover. It provides a clear, well thought out and simple to follow approach to learning how to create solo's or melodys over chord progressions. The skills which can be learnt from working through this book apply to any style of music which has more than one chord in it (so practically everything). The examples are superb and the backing tracks provide a good stage to practice the exercises against. All in all an excellent book. It would be great to see a further addition which goes in the details of the melodic minor modes, however from the knowledge contained within this book one could easiy apply these ideas to melodic minor.

Thanks for writting such an excellent book.
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63 of 64 people found the following review helpful
By C. R. Downing TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
It's said that decades ago, most jazz players would build their solos on chords and the tones within them. That nowadays plpayers take a scale note approach and build solos from playing the 'right' scales over the chord harmony. In fact either way works well and as a teacher I get all my students to apporach soloing both ways becuaes they seem to get different results and sounds.

This is the best book I've found for concentrating on chord tones and building solos around them. You'll end up with very musical, smooth solos that your audience will appreciate. If you're a rock and blues player, you'll end up with solos that sound like Mark Knopfler or Gary Moore and you'll find yourself getting away from running up and down penatonic and blues scales and discovering a whole new world of soloing out there.

Everyone taking this approach needs to know their scales and chors so here's a couple of suggestions. the best scales book I know is Jimmy Brunos and he has a DVD and a book that goes through his approach.

Jimmy Bruno, No Nonsense Jazz Guitar [DVD]
Six Essential Fingerings for the Jazz Guitarist (Jimmy Bruno Jazz Guitar)

There's a nice support book from Hal Leonard - not work a book but more reference material for soloing

Scale-chord Connection

And the scales approach to soloing is best covered with two books from Gibert and Marlis from The Musicians Institute in Los Angeles. Don't bother with their DVD as it skips through the work and doesn't really give you anything more than a summary of what's in the first book. You'll only need the first book of this pair at this stage. (Buying both will give you at least a year's work to really absorb it all and apply well.)

Guitar Soloing: The Contemporary Guide to Improvisation [With CD]
Advanced Guitar Soloing: The Professional Guide to Improvisation
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The Best! 10 April 2008
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This is the best book I've ever read on improvising. Follow this book to the letter and you'll be able to zip through the changes. I would say that it will be of more value to a jazz player than heavy metal
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3.0 out of 5 stars ??
Still stands on my shelf. Changed form guitar to bass.

But looking it through it seems to be OK :-)
Published 1 month ago by soren sonne
5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting stuff
Looks really good. I still haven't got through it all yet, too busy learning tunes and rehearsing. From what I understand it's like a bit like Larry Carleton does it. I. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Johnny Mac
5.0 out of 5 stars great book!
I am not a guitarist , I play the saxophone. Being able to solo on chord tones-roots, thirds, fiths, sevenths, gives you a great foundation to work from, plus, as a non harmony... Read more
Published 2 months ago by jimjazz
5.0 out of 5 stars THE MAGIC OF LEAD GUITAR IN A BOOK
THIS BOOK TAKES AWAY THE MYSTERY OF WHICH CHORD TO PLAY AND WHICH SCALES FIT OVER THEM--- THIS IS AN ESSENTIAL LEARNING TOO; AND THE BASIS OF EVERY GOOD GUITARIST TRICK BOOK BE IT... Read more
Published 2 months ago by BASSMAN50
4.0 out of 5 stars A very good book
I like this book as I have not seen many books that approaches improvising in this way. It develops the ideas in a logical sequence making it easy to understand.
Published 4 months ago by L. Winterbottom
5.0 out of 5 stars Recommend it Great book
Good use and examples of how to use scales and leading notes. Has backing tracks and good examples that apply in a performance.
Published 5 months ago by George Kokkinis
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent publication
Another excellent Hal Leonard publication that will help guitarists learn, have fun and achieve their sound! Not overly wordy and plenty of diagrams to help the learning process. Read more
Published 5 months ago by A. J. Ward
5.0 out of 5 stars Best book for soloing
Very clear, very good. I could not even imagine any better. I practice almost every day a rough 2 hours and after a month I realised a big improvement. I am very satisfied.
Published 15 months ago by T. Horvath
4.0 out of 5 stars Not really bad
This book has a solid foundation on how to improvise with confidence. The author explains and shows different tools that are mandatory to have a good level of technique. Read more
Published 17 months ago by jose araujo b jr
5.0 out of 5 stars great book!
This is a great book for improving your soloing skills. Some of the books I'd tried to work through weren't terribly helpful, they ended up being too dry and I often couldn't see... Read more
Published 19 months ago by Lucia
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