Recommendations for a good jazz guitar instructional?

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  • MegiiMegii Frets: 1670
    Megii said:
    koss59 said:
    One of the biggest things for me was the Emily Remler instructional video if you can find it!
    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.
    Another vote for the Emily Remler videos - there were actually two "Bebop and Swing Guitar" and then "Advanced Jazz and Latin Guitar" which despite the title is still taught in a very accessible, straightforward way. I think they were at one point released on DVD so you might find copies available.

    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/

    You're right - I have both of Emily Remler's Courses on DVD. She's my favourite guitarist, and there is the website allthingsemily.com dedicated to her work. I was really pleased last year to come across a Gibson 330 which had had a pair of PAF's put in it sometime in the past, which more or less replicated her main guitar.
    That's something I've thought about too with the guitar - it would probably be sacrilege to convert a 330 that hadn't already been done like the one you found, but I have considered getting an Epi Casino and fitting humbuckers - wouldn't be quite the same, but close I imagine. Of course she would have told us that it's not about the gear anyhow... :D Probably my favourite jazz guitarist also, have all the CDs. :)   
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  • JalapenoJalapeno Frets: 6378
    koss59 said:
    One of the biggest things for me was the Emily Remler instructional video if you can find it!
    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.
    Disagree bout the Mickey Baker book, I love it - it is a bit odd to start with, but the unstated objective is that he's training your ear.  The "trust me I'm a doctor" approach might not be to everyone's taste, and the chord mountain he starts you climbing is daunting.

    The Mark Levine book is an excellent THEORY guide, but not really suitable as guitar tutorial. I love the book, but it is flaming expensive.

    Agree that Emily Remler DVDs are great and straightforward. Jimmy Bruno No Nonsense DVDs are also excellent.

    Anything that starts you on scales & modes should be avoided (as it will take forever) - look for tuition based on arpeggios, making your own melodies (hardest bit for me) & tonal centres to get you going in a functional way.

    If you have Truefire access, I agree that Sheryl Bailey (going to an all day tutorial with her in a couple of weeks) is good, but there's also excellent tuition from Frank Vignola, Fareeq Haque, Jeff McErlaine, Bill Evans / Mike Stern and Mimi Fox.  Also lots of 50 Licks sessions in various jazz styles.

    Truefire also superb for very jazzy blues having both Larry Carlton & Robben Ford as instructors.
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  • JalapenoJalapeno Frets: 6378
    Also Jens Larsen's YouTube channel is good, but his pace with content is relentless so pick and choose.
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  • nickpnickp Frets: 182
    useful thread thanks :)

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  • richcolrichcol Frets: 12
    Cheers guys - Barry Greene's site does look good.

    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!
    Good move getting the All Access trial. The course you got is great. 
    Also Fareed Haque's Jazz Comping Survival guide covers a lot for rhythm.
    There's a course on there called Creative Jazz Comping by Sean McGowan and he has a really good way of explaining things.
    Also Sheryl Bailey does the Bebop Guitar Fakebook which is good for rhythm on some classics...Autumn Leaves etc..
    Frank Vignola also has a Jazz Fakebook rhythm series that does similar.
    The whole interface with backing tracks works really well.
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  • danowensdanowens Frets: 27
    'm very much starting from scratch on guitar (I'm a bassist) but I've been dabbling in Jazz. The Dan Greenblatt book on the Blues Scales was a good starter, as is Mimi Fox's book on apreggios.
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  • DLMDLM Frets: 2513
    Jalapeno said:
    Also Jens Larsen's YouTube channel is good, but his pace with content is relentless so pick and choose.

    @Jalapeno I quite liked the videos of his I watched. Used the "pause" and "back ten seconds" functions on the YouTube app a lot, but that wasn't a bad thing. His diagrams were nice and clear on freezeframe, with the caveat that one of them had a boo-boo in it (that was pointed out and acknowledged in the comments). :|
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  • DB1DB1 Frets: 5024
    @Jalapeno - I subscribe to the Truefire courses - jazz, jazz/blues, jump blues, acoustic blues etc, and find Truefire to be very useful as well. 

    Call me Dave.
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  • KRSKRS Frets: 9
    edited September 2019
    Bebop Dojo! Not seen this before so I'm gonna have some fun with this. 

    Jen's Larsen comes highly recommended, I've got loads of great ideas from him recently. As a bonus his voice is very soothing!

    Check out this https://www.jazzguitar.be

    There's a free download beginners guide that is excellent. 


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  • How did you get on in your journeys?  Any recommended recommendations? :)
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  • greejngreejn Frets: 127
    Highly recommend Robin Nolan, Jimmy Bruno lessons on Youtube.
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  • danishbacondanishbacon Frets: 2694
    True fire and hens Larsen 
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  • joeWjoeW Frets: 459
    +1 for Truefire esp Sheryl Bailey and also Fareed Haque's Jazz comping survival guide presents some theory concepts in very accessible and specifically "guitaristic" manner
    If first principles needed like using bebop scale / 7-13th arpeggios / diminished arp etc Joseph's Alexanders Fundamental Changes in Jazz Guitar helped me sound more Jazzy and less straight Blues fairly quickly.  

    @PonchoGreg - what did you find helpful out of interest?

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  • PonchoGregPonchoGreg Frets: 764
    Wow sorry guys - Hotmail was up to its old tricks again and sending notifications to junk...

    Sheryl Bailey was defo useful, but in the end I also ended up doing what I said I wouldn't do... Pilfered some basics here and there from YT and just worked on a few tunes. Mostly comping to be fair, the arpeggio practice never really got off the ground so I need to get back on that.
    Click here to see me butchering some classic solos!
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  • scalino65scalino65 Frets: 261
    Joe Pass did a few vhs and dvd tutorials. Here's a link to one of them:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tb2UOpfEE4

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  • JalapenoJalapeno Frets: 6378
    edited March 2020
    Wow sorry guys - Hotmail was up to its old tricks again and sending notifications to junk...

    Sheryl Bailey was defo useful, but in the end I also ended up doing what I said I wouldn't do... Pilfered some basics here and there from YT and just worked on a few tunes. Mostly comping to be fair, the arpeggio practice never really got off the ground so I need to get back on that.
    CAGED is a good way to get out of Blues "box" playing - use the arpeggios within (or your ear).  Does take time/practice

    Charlie Christian tunes/tutorials are also pretty good sources to start with.  He had very non-guitar phrasing as he only had sax players to listen to !

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