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Whoever suggtested the Mickey Baker jazz guitar method for leaning
chord forms, thank you, thank you. This is the kind of book I've
looked for off and on on for years. I bought it and the William
Leavitt courses first volume. With the two of these I think this is
all I need for awhile, besides time and my Real Books.

I like what Baker said in the very first of the book - there are so
many guitar chords that frankly aren't very useful, I want you to
learn these very useful chords and transpose them into all the keys,
then I'll show you more when you learn those - Sounds basic, and it
is, but it works, and those are indeed very useful chord forms for
both comping and improvising.

I got both of these books used on Amazon for probaly a total of
$15.00. Best money I've spent.

John

Hey John,

I won't take the credit, although I believe I might've been one of the
people on this forum who recommended the Baker books... Some of the voicings are
a bit dated, but Vol. I especially is a terrific book. Way back in the
Pleistocene period, it really helped me get started on the road to playing jazz.

Cheers,
JV

Juan Vega

Yo Juan,

back in '69 there was not a plethora of jazz guitar
intruction books as there is today -- the Mickey Baker
book got us out of the first position "Simon &
Garfunfel/Proud mary/Hey Jude/LouieLouie" bar chord
regimes ....

...then the orange Joe Pass book came out in the 70s
and we were went deep underground with passion for
chord melody, swing, jazz/blues and heavy duty bop
lines ...

...in those days, like I said before, for lack of
instructional material, we spent a lot of time
transcribing our favorite jazz recordings ... I
remember spendng days and days transcribing Benson's
cover of James Moody's "Moody's Modd For Love" (based
on Moody's solo to "I'm in the Mood for Love")



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Hey John,

I won't take the credit, although I believe I
might've been one of the
people on this forum who recommended the Baker
books... Some of the voicings are
a bit dated, but Vol. I especially is a terrific
book. Way back in the
Pleistocene period, it really helped me get started
on the road to playing jazz.

Cheers,
JV

Juan Vega



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John Amato
Music blows the dust off your soul...
Isa.55:11



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...somehow for some of us who learned first jazz
chords w/Baker book ...I don't remember when the
correct fingers fell into place ...we just assumed the
fingers were right ... but somewhere the "illogical"
and "un-natural" feel of these errors turned into
"rightness" -- I don't remember where or when that
took place....

John Amato
Music blows the dust off your soul...
Isa.55:11



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Steve Khan's book, 'Chord Khancepts' is an excellent follow-up to the
Baker books, because he covers more modern comping techniques and how
to substitute common triads for any chord - very valuable.

--- In jazz_guitar@..., "john dean" <deanwork2003@y...>
wrote:

Whoever suggtested the Mickey Baker jazz guitar method for leaning
chord forms, thank you, thank you. This is the kind of book I've
looked for off and on on for years. I bought it and the William
Leavitt courses first volume. With the two of these I think this is
all I need for awhile, besides time and my Real Books.

I like what Baker said in the very first of the book - there are so
many guitar chords that frankly aren't very useful, I want you to
learn these very useful chords and transpose them into all the keys,
then I'll show you more when you learn those - Sounds basic, and it
is, but it works, and those are indeed very useful chord forms for
both comping and improvising.

I got both of these books used on Amazon for probaly a total of
$15.00. Best money I've spent.

John

It was probably me who posted about Mickey Bakers jazz guitar book.

I bought this book back in 1969 from Rushworths & Drapers who were the main Liverpool music shop at the time (now long gone.) I believe it to be a superb course.

The book is divided into weekly lessons and takes a great deal of time to work through. Far from being dated I believe it to be a valuable work which can be revisited over and over. When I attended a seminar with John Pisano last year I specifically asked him what he thought of the Mickey Baker books (there is a vol 2 as well.) His reply was that is was an old work that was extremely good.

This work was written in the days before short cuts and computer programmes - and as most people who want to get anywhere with music discover - there is no such thing as a short cut.

Recommended

Will