I love buying guitar books. I think I own almost
every
book on jazz rhythm guitar. Doing this allowed me to
buy a book in 1992 which sat in a box until last
October.
I took all the rhythm books out one weekend and
started each one. Then I realized it was the book
for me. I recommend it for people who want to learn
jazz rhythm guitar.
It is: Jazz Rhythm Guitar, by Roger Edison. My copy
was published by Alfred and I think it is hard to find
right now.
I did every exercise and converted every exercise to
all the other keys and practiced using the cycle of
fifths. It will help you finally remember which
chords
to play for iim, V7, vim, etc. A major way to hear
altered chords is to play them. The last exercise in
this book is the tritone substitution. Now that is a
sound I want in my hands and in my ears.
I have a bass instruction book with a CD which has
a piano player playing all types of jazz changes and
progressions so the student can get the sound in
his/her ears. Once I learned the generic blues
progression and could play bass blues progessions
over and over, I could finally hear how many complex
sounding jazz songs are just blues progressions with
the soloists doing altering and substituting.
Now I'm working on rhythm guitar blues progressions.
(Now it only Mitch Seidman will publish his columns.)
I don't believe you can hear it until you play it.
Ed
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