Hiya,
With the sheer scale (ha ha) of teaching materials available online, in books, on YT, etc I find it a bit tough to find something structured that would encourage me to stick to it.
Any recommendations on a good method to build up my jazz playing? Not too fussed about format, could be PDF, print, videos, etc.
Level-wise my theory is practically non-existent
I know some of the basic jazz chords from learning a few tunes over the years though.
Thanks a lot in advance for any tips!
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A recommendation for Sheryl Bailey's video course 'Bebop Dojo: Essentials', available through Truefire: https://truefire.com/jazz-guitar-lessons/bebop-dojo-essentials/c111
It's a solid, organised course that will give you a good basic set of skills for jazz playing and get you playing over some basic progressions.
Sheryl's a fantastic player and teacher (I took online one-to-one lessons with her for several years) and I can recommend all her stuff.
PS. She's in the UK in June for a bunch of gigs and is giving workshops in London, Cambridge and Huddersfield too.
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I bought the Micky Baker book after everyone seemed to rav about it but I think its the best thing to put you off learning any jazz, horrible book.
I personally couldn’t ever learn music from books though.
An alternative is gypsy jazz / bossa.
Both are easy and melodic. Once you’ve got them under your fingers you can move to bebop.
Youtube is your friend, but so is sheet music / chord charts.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
I've been signed up to Barry Greene's video lessons site for a while now, and find it to be excellent, and he keeps adding new lessons. Was recommended to me by a pro jazz guitarist, and has proved very worthwhile. There is a "stepping stones" series of lessons for those fairly new to jazz guitar, covering the essentials you need to then move on to the other lessons (of which there are a lot).
https://barrygreenevideolessons.vhx.tv/
In the meantime I got the Sheryl Bailey course as there was a BOGOF thing on truefire (and I got full access to all the site for a month). I might glean as much as possible there and move on!