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⇒ [PDF] Jazz Guitar Comping Raising Your Chord Awareness Andrew Green Books

Jazz Guitar Comping Raising Your Chord Awareness Andrew Green Books



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For most of the recorded history of jazz, the piano has been the main, and usually the only, comping instrument. This text will help guitarists get a handle on the most important job they have when playing in a small group comping. This book can be used as a progressive study of comping or simply a source of ideas. Although rhythms and voice leading are found throughout the book, they are isolated for study in particular sections. The book and accompanying audio cover voice leading, multi-use voicings, voicing variations, passing chords, harmonized scales, intervallic comping, rhythm and studies (blues, standard, modern and modal). Includes access to online audio.

Jazz Guitar Comping Raising Your Chord Awareness Andrew Green Books

A side benefit of this book is the fact that you're forced to read multiple notes to form chords and the result for me has been an almost immediate increase in my music reading ability in terms of note awareness on the neck. In addition to the "reading exercise", the dissonant chords described are really wonderful and my ability to stretch my left hand has really increased.

I find myself getting up at 4AM to work with this comping book. My only problem is loss of sleep as I have a hard time walking away from Mr. Green's book.

Product details

  • Paperback 136 pages
  • Publisher Mel Bay Publications, Inc. (April 4, 2017)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10 0786698993

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As structured and clear as the other books from Andrew Green (cf. Jazz Guitar Structures, excellent one too). The examples are all very musical and the ideas extremely interesting. For example multi-use voicings is nice. If you buy it you won't regret it, for sure !
Jazz Guitar Comping by Andrew Green is the newest volume in what is now a trilogy of great worth on the art of playing jazz guitar. This is an approach to help one learn how to comp musically in a small group setting. Andrew Green organizes the material in ways that are easy to understand and visualize. Every concept he puts forth is illustrated by a track on the accompanying CD and the quality of the recording and the content (great playing) are first rate. The four studies with analysis that finish the book are amazing not only because they are played by some really great players who work their art every day in New York and all over the world, but also because Andrew can write about what's going on in the group measure by measure and give us real insight into the spontaneous creation that is essential to jazz. This book is very much about playing jazz today, a time in which guitar is often the only chord instrument in the ensemble. It also is not an academic approach but rather a look at how a practicing professional musician with spirit and imagination approaches his role in the band. There's lots of good material here - highly reccomend!
I choose to purchase this book because of the lack of material out there that focuses on chord comping. This is not a quick and easy study and should be approached without expecting to fly through it as though it were a piece of fine music. I gave it a thumbs up for the effort that was put into writing it even though I know it may be over the head of some students. People who like to collect guitar books would fine this a unique addition.
This book is one of the best I have seen on the subject of the use of "jazz" chords,or harmony as it relates to a modern or contemporary sound.this book is not a good book for beginners though the book is very clear in that he points out that in modern jazz there is not a lot of different chords or harmonies used therefore a good handle on
theory and chord substitution is very important or the book may be over ones head.Still it is a Excellent book and
is worth having a copy.
This is the most comprehensive jazz guitar comping book I've come across. It's loaded with information and better yet, Andrew Green has a great way of presenting things that make it easier to apply than other methods. I also own Andrews 'Structures' book and am finding these two books to be favorites. It's easy to follow and apply, and there's a lot of meat to the books.

I compared this to Jim Fergusons's Comping book and it's a no contest for me. Andrew's better in presenting things and provides much more. The only thing it doesn't touch is chord melody playing, which is understandable. The best book to me on chord melody is Robert Conti's Chord Melody Assembly Line book.

Like the 'Structures' book, there is a decent amount of reading (as in notational reading and no tab) so I wouldn't say his series is made for the beginner. But if you can read a little and have some experience but are just getting into jazz, then I highly recommend Andrew's series.
Plenty of voicing ideas, nice introduction to various comping techniques (harmonized scales, two notes, passing chords etc) No tab, but that actually helps since you have to figure out the fingerings and that gives a deeper understanding of the chords.
Four stars and not five, because many voicings are very hard, right from the beginning. It would be nice to mark them as 'advanced' to avoid wasting time trying to play them on the first read.
I recently joined a college jazz band where- in addition to playing the occasional solo and "time" a la Freddie Green- I was required to "comp." So, I did what I always do I bought a stack of books and started reading them. Some of the books have sections on comping in them and some are devoted to the subject entirely, but what I prefer about Andrew Green's "Jazz Guitar Comping" is that he gets to authentic comping almost immediately whereas the other books take a long time in warming to the subject. The section on multi-use voicings alone is worth the price of the book. I see some reviews here that are less-than-enthusiastic, and I suspect it's because (1) they are unfamiliar with staff notation, (2) have not listened to a lot of jazz, or (3) do not know what to do if a chord that's presented is too big a reach to play. I have all of Green's books, and they presume you can already play well and read music. For myself, I wasn't looking for a systematic book on chord construction- I was looking for a practical guide to comping that I could put to use RIGHT NOW. Oh, and the "stretchy" chords? I don't play 'em either- I take out a note, or I substitute another voicing.
A side benefit of this book is the fact that you're forced to read multiple notes to form chords and the result for me has been an almost immediate increase in my music reading ability in terms of note awareness on the neck. In addition to the "reading exercise", the dissonant chords described are really wonderful and my ability to stretch my left hand has really increased.

I find myself getting up at 4AM to work with this comping book. My only problem is loss of sleep as I have a hard time walking away from Mr. Green's book.
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