Jazz

Jazz Guitar Instruction on DVD and VHS Video

50 LICKS JAZZ STYLE

Learn licks, turnarounds, bebop lines and more! Bruce demonstrates the essential licks for the chords and progressions common to jazz II-V-I licks, turnaround licks, chromatic bebop lines, licks for altered chords and major and minor vamps, and more! He illustrates these licks in several styles, such as: swing, bossa nova, samba, swing 16ths, funky fusion and bluesy shuffles. A must for all jazz guitarists! 61 minutes. VHS Video.

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AL DI MEOLA

Al shows his scale choices for soloing over various chords with a special section on 'the dominant 7th - diminished connection.' Many of his melodic lines, licks, rhythm patterns and solos have been transcribed in the accompanying booklet. The video includes Al's amazing rhythmic ideas, muting and chordal picking. (75 min. VHS Video)

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ALLAN HOLDSWORTH

One of the most unique and respected guitarists in the world reveals his insights to improvising. This one-of-a-kind video features Allan Holdsworth and his band performing live in the studio. You'll see incredible close-up shots of Allan's amazing technique. With a special teaching section. Music and tab booklet included. (75 min.)

BOSSA NOVA GUITAR

The world's most in-demand bossa nova guitarist, Romero Lubambo has performed and recorded with Astrud Gilbert, Ivan Lins, Ana Karam, Airto Moreira, Al Jarreau, Grover Washington Jr., Michael Brecker and many others. In this video, he shows you 33 essential bossa nova guitar patterns - direct from Brazil. Contents include basic patterns, advanced patterns, guitar styles of bossa nova, melodic patterns and more. Performances feature Romero's band Trio Da Paz with additional vocals. Includes a 52-page booklet. 60 minutes.

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Clint Strong - MASTERING JAZZ LICKS

Clint Strong demonstrates how he 'thinks' while improvising overa standard chord progression using extended and altered chord substitutions. He also teaches many incredible jazz lines for II-V-I and I-VI-II-V progressions. This video includes great performances by Clint with his quartet. W/ booklet. (90 min.)

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Frank Gambale - Chopbuilder: The Ultimate Guitar Workout

Keep those chops in shape! This intense routine three times a week will increase guitar fitness, strengthen hands and increase speed and dexterity while improving music theory and fretboard knowledge. The emphasis is on endurance. Challenging and motivational. With booklet. Frank Gambale. (75 min.)

Frank Gambale - CONCERT WITH CLASS

In this exciting new undertaking from the legendary Frank Gambale, the "Thunder From Down Under" brings you up to speed on his never-ending musical quest. With a host of new material, and some of today's top session musicians, Gambale continues to push the boundaries of music to the edge and beyond through his extraordinary guitar playing and songwriting skills. This great video includes an amazing live concert performance followed by an exclusive instructional segment with the legend himself, breaking down several songs featured in the live show. Never before has the music of Frank Gambale been presented in such a user-friendly format by offering instruction and applications on one great video. VHS.

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Frank Gambale - MODES: NO MORE MYSTERY

Frank Gimbale presents a clear and easy-to-understand guide to using modes in soloing. Frank takes a subject that guitarists often find confusing and explains it in simple terms. He covers all seven major modes and demonstrates the use of each in the context of some extraordinary solo work. Intermediate to advanced. Special features of DVD include: tuning segment, video performance (Allan Holdsworth, Joe Pass), Concert with Class preview, Frank Gimbale catalog, and Internet connectivity. (65 min.) Also available: No More Mystery and Monster Licks and Speed Picking VHS videos in one package. (Select Video 2-Pack.)

Frank Gambale - MONSTER LICKS SPEED PICKING

Details Frank Gambale's innovative speed/sweep picking technique and presents a method for developing 'monster licks.' He demonstrateshis picking technique in the context of scales, pentatonics, arpeggios and triad examples, playing each slowly and then at lightning speed. Booklet included. Special features of DVD include: tuning segment, video performance (Allan Holdsworth, John Scofield), Concert with Class preview, Frank Gimbale catalog, and Internet connectivity. (68 min.) Also available: No More Mystery and Monster Licks and Speed Picking VHS videos in one package. (Select Video 2-Pack.)

Funk Guitar Rhythm Chops - BEYOND BASICS

Allan "Dr. Licks" Slutsky (one of the pioneers of guitar tab and note-for-note transcriptions) explores the classic concepts, techniques, riffs, and patterns of the great funk players. Includes: funk chord voicing, funk syncopation, funk rhythm grooves, 16th-note strumming, percussive muting techniques, "percolator" type-style, single-note funk, wah-wahgrooves, layering multiple guitar parts, and many examples of classic rhythms. Special Features of DVD include:~Tuning Segment~Artist Video Previews~Bonus Video Tips~Getting To Know Your Amplifier~Beyond Basics Catalog~Internet Connectivity.

GUITAR TIPS JAZZ GUITAR

GUITAR TIPS brings together some of the world's greatest guitarists, each providing his own insights on music and the guitar. JAZZ GUITAR TIPS features Joe Pass, Pat Martino, Clint Strong and Herb Elliswith host Don Mock performing and demonstrating improvising overstatic chords, II-V-I progressions and turnarounds. Other sections include comping, solo guitar playing, picking, right-hand technique and playing the blues. VHS Video.

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Herb Ellis - SWING JAZZ SOLOING & COMPING

Herb Ellis uses the 12-bar blues progression as a background while he discusses and demonstrates some favorite lines that have made him part of jazz history. Herb takes you through tuning, chord formations, scales, picking, comping, equipment and melodic ideas, and adds some common sense advice. VHS Video.

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Jazz Guitar Improvisation - by John Abercrombie

With special guest John Basile. Modern jazz master John Abercrombie provides insights into the vast potential of the guitar fingerboard. After working with this video, guitarists will soon hear a dramatic change in their ability to create clear, expressive improvisations. Abercrombie uses his original compositions and the beautiful standard 'Stella By Starlight' to demonstrate melodic and motivic development, polychording, dynamics, rhythmic changes and other essential skills. A must for all jazz guitarists! 90-MINUTE VHS VIDEO * INCLUDES MUSIC * INTERMEDIATE LEVEL.

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Jazz Guitar Improvisation - featuring Sid Jacobs

Develop your jazz guitar soloing skills with this comprehensive VHS video taught by Musicians Institute instructor Sid Jacobs. Topics covered include: three-octave diatonic scale patterns · triad pairs · common jazz phrases · guide tones · fourths · and more. Approx. 60 minutes.

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Jazz Guitar Rhythm Chops - BEYOND BASICS

Don Mock, master guitarist and educator, reveals his favorite chord voicingand comping concepts and demonstrates them in the context of soulful jazz and blues chord progressions that are easily applied to any situation. Includes: the "best" and most useful chord voicings, chord extensions and alterations, chord substitution and secondary dominants, powerful "half-step connections," and several complete 12-bar blues progressions. Special Features of DVD Include:~Tuning Segment~Artist Video Previews~Bonus Video Tips~Getting To Know Your Amplifier~Beyond Basics Catalog~Internet Connectivity.

JIM HALL

The Jim Hall package is an introspective look at one of the greatest and most respected jazz guitar virtuosos of all time. In several complete live performances of his most notable compositions - Subsequently, Two Blues, Three, All Across The City, Something Tells Me, and Something Special - Jim discusses and demonstrates the key components of performance and improvisation. VHS Video.

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Jim Hall - Jazz Guitar Master Class - VOL. 1

Jazz Basics - The Principles of Improvisation

Jazz Basics is designed for the newcomer to jazz guitar. It covers all of the fundamentals and basic concepts essential for jazz improvisation, and features performances with Satoshi Inoue on guitar. Songs include Big Blues and Whistle Stop. Includes a 32-page booklet. Approximately 60 minutes.

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Jim Hall - Jazz Guitar Master Class - VOL. 2

Advanced Concepts - Self-Expression

This second video is designed for intermediate to advanced guitarists. It introduces varous ideas and methods for practicing improvisation and self-expression, and features performances with Satshi Inoue on guitar. Songs include: Waltz New, Miro, and Seseragi. Includes a 36-page booklet. Approximately 60 Minutes.

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Jim Hall - Jazz Guitar Master Class - VOL. 3

Playing with a Group - Interaction

In Volume 3, the Jim Hall Quartet plays original tunes in varous styles, including swing, bossa nova, blues and calypso. Jim analyzes each composition and explains the role of the guitar in different ensemble formats. Features performances with Scott Colley (bass), Andy Watson (drums) and Rasmus Lee (tenor sax). Songs include: Why Not Dance, Joao, Mr. Blues, and Street Dance. Includes a 32-page booklet. Approximately 60 minutes.

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Joe Diorio - CREATIVE JAZZ GUITAR

Joe Diorio, one of the founding instructors of GIT, explains techniques for getting in touch with your creative and intuitive right side of the brain. Composing and building solos with motifs along with many unique-sounding patterns for the major and minor II-V-I progressions are demonstrated and explained. (60 min. VHS Video)

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Joe Pass - AN EVENING WITH JOE PASS

An instructional and performance video featuring a concert (with a great trio) plus a pre-concert run-through of jazz classics like Satin Doll, All the Things You Are and more. In clinic, Joe discusses and demonstrates the techniques he employs, chord-melody and 'playing what you hear.' Booklet included. (90 min.) Also available: Joe Pass: Boxed Set. Two Joe Pass videos, JAZZ LINES and AN EVENING WITH JOE PASS packaged together in an attractive slipcover.

Joe Pass - JAZZ LINES

Joe Pass discusses the scales and arpeggios he uses when improvising. Joe also demonstrates non-stop improvised lines for: major 7th, minor7th, static and altered dominant 7th chord types plus a special section on turnarounds. Get insight into how Joe 'thinks' while improvising. Booklet included. (60 min.) Also available: Joe Pass: Boxed Set. Two Joe Pass videos, JAZZ LINES and AN EVENING WITH JOE PASS packaged together in an attractive slipcover.

John Scofield - JAZZ-FUNK GUITAR I

Featuring Dennis Chambers, Gary Grainger and Jim Beard reunited withthe electrifying John Scofield. John's multi-faceted style is covered in depth as he discusses intervallic ideas, string-skipping, chordal concepts, playing ideas across the fingerboard and developing your own personal sound. (66 min.)

John Scofield - JAZZ-FUNK GUITAR II

On Jazz-Funk Guitar II, John covers the compositional aspect of hisstyle as he analyzes the songs performed on this tape and reveals the correct chord voicings and melody lines. Using his own tunes,John goes over concepts such as chromaticism, form, contour, voice-leading, pedal tones and contrary motion. (62 min. VHS)

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John Scofield - ON IMPROVISATION

John Scofield is an internationally respected musician known for his fluid guitar playing and inventive improvisation. This video covers such topics as the use of seventeen major modes and scales, chromatics, passing tones and various approaches to improvisation. (60 min.)

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LARRY CARLTON

This Grammy Award-winning jazz/rock guitarist has recorded with Steely Dan, Diana Ross, Neil Diamond, Olivia Newton-John, Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson, and others. On this VHS video he discusses blues and chord substitution. 60 minutes.

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LARRY CARLTON - VOLUME 2

Discover the answers to the 'most asked questions' about how Larry Carlton, one of today's most influential jazz/rock guitarists, achieves his soulful and memorable style in this revealing 45-minute session. Larry presents an in-depth look at how to solo and improvise jazz, blues and be-bop variations with keyboard accompaniment provided by Terry Trotter. He covers many vital performance tips and techniques, including: playing over ballads, expanding phrases, creating chord melodies, creating your own solo arrangements, and more. Whether you want to become a session player or enhance your performance skills, Larry Carlton gives you some insight to what it takes. 45 minutes VHS video.

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MARK WHITFIELD

Mark is a Berklee alum who has played with George Benson, the Marsalis brothers, Donald Harrison and Jack McDuff, among others. Here he demonstrates his intense warm-up routine, and covers: scale sequences; arpeggios; chord inversions; extensions and constant structure voicings; applications of II, V, I chord progressions and chord melody; reharmonization of songs; and much more. Includes a booklet with easy-to-follow notation and diagrams that correspond to this 60-minute VHS video.

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MIKE STERN

Grammy-nominated jazz guitarist Mike Stern has been in the public eye (and ears) since he was a member of the Miles Davis Band in the early '80s. His prolific performances and recordings have earned him recognition as one of the best and most popular contemporary guitarists today. This, his first instructional video, includes four live performances by Mike and his band at the 55 Bar in New York City, the historical club in which Mike has played for over 15 years, accompanied by many great musicians, including Jaco Pastorius. Additionally, in an exclusive interview with New York-based jazz guitarist Satoshi Inoue, Stern offers his own analysis and explanation of each tune. The songs - a blues, a standard, a ballad, and a funk tune - were carefully selected by Mike himself in order to demonstrate every aspect of his guitar performance and techniques. He also gives insight into his background, influences and practice routines, and provides a thorough review of his gear configurations. Everything you need to know about this versatile guitar master! Includes booklet. Approximately 65 minutes. VHS Video.

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Pat Martino - CREATIVE FORCE 2-PACK

Creative Force is an incredible three-hour, two-part instructional video series covering Pat Martino's unique philosophies for and insights into improvising and solo guitar playing. Part 1 details Pat's diminished concept, his special system of "converting to minor," and his incredible picking technique. In Part 2, Pat further explains and demonstrates his "converting to minor" system for improvising, and he outlines his unique augmented concept. He also shares valuable advice on phrasing and dynamics.

Pat Martino - CREATIVE FORCE HIGHLIGHTS

A powerful 30-minute edition of select teaching and performance segments from the original Pat Martino Creative Force two-part video series. Pat reveals his unique philosophy and insights into improvising and solo guitar playing. (30 min.)

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Pat Martino - Quantum Guitar: Advance Concepts

An intense study of Pat Martino's unique approach to, and philosophy of, contemporary improvising. The tape includes several inspiring demonstrations and live performances by Pat and his quartet. The accompanying booklet is packed with transcribed examples in both tablature and standard notation. (75 min. VHS)

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Pat Martino - Quantum Guitar: Analysis of a Tune

The first tape in a two-tape series on Pat Martino's unique approach to modern guitar playing, and is designed as a continuation of his first video series Creative Force. Here is a rare opportunity to see what Pat Martino does best -- playing live in a New York City jazz club with his quartet. The tape includes four complete tunes: the booklet has three transcriptions and Pat's solos for them in music and tablature. (70 min. VHS)

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Scott Henderson's JAZZ FUSION VIDEO 2-PACK

Scott Henderson's Jazz Fusion Improvisation and Melodic Phrasing videos packaged as a set. On Jazz Fusion Improvisation, GIT instructor Scott Henderson reveals his unique approach to improvising over chords used in jazz fusion. Scott demonstrates uses for: major, pentatonic, melodic minor, diminished, and whole-tone scales , along with modern uses for arpeggios and triads. On-screen music included. (60 min.) On Melodic Phrasing, Scott nails the hard-to-teach subject of improvisation phrasing. You'll learn many rhythmic and melodic motifs that he uses to build solos along with his many conceptual approaches to phrasing. Scott features a special section on "Peru," one of his fine compositions. Booklet included. (75 min.)

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Shawn Lane - POWER LICKS

In POWER LICKS, Shawn Lane shows how he takes a basic sequence 'shape' and moves it in various ways around the fingerboard unleashing hundreds of useful melodic lines and licks. He also shares his favorite scale sequences and demonstrates his unbelievable right and left-hand techniques. W/ booklet. (60 min.)

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Shawn Lane - POWER SOLOS

Shawn Lane teaches note-for-note solo excerpts from his unique compositions. In a special section on pentatonic scales, he demonstrates favorite fingering patterns and picking sequences which create hundreds of unusual pentatonic lines. An intense video from one of today's power players. Booklet included. (60 min.)

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Stanley Jordan

This VHS video presents a rare and insightful glimpse of the revolutionary 'touch' or 'tapping technique' of guitar playing, a method where Stanley places both hands on the neck using his fingers hammering-on independently. Using no dubs or other studio effects he is able to sound like two or three guitarists playing simultaneously. Viewers will discover the secrets to his style as well as tips for their own playing, such as: improvising expressive melodies, utilizing a full range of dynamics, using electronics to create unique sounds, developing practice techniques, improving dexterity, and much more. Also includes a booklet with transcriptions of his riffs. 90 minutes.

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THE GUITAR ARTISTRY OF BILL FRISELL

Bill Frisell stands out among contemporary guitarists with his innovative playing style and unique sound. This is the first instructional video to introduce Bill's playing and to present his individual approach in detail. In the six chapters of the video - background, technique, effects, harmony, rhythm and arrangement - Bill analyzes various aspects of his magical techniques and imaginative conception. Features performances of his famous former trio with Kermit Driscoll (bass) and Joey Baron (drums). Songs include: When We Go · Strange Meeting · Rag · The Days of Wine and Roses. Includes a 20-page booklet. 60 minutes. VHS Video.

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WHAMMY BAR AND STRING BENDING

Mat Gurman has performed with Kenny Loggins and The Tonight Show Band, and done workshops with Dizzy Gillespie, Joe Williams, and Carmen McRae. His video covers single string bending, unison bends, double stops to three part harmony bends, left hand technique, pitch accuracy, targeting note choices, and more. He also explains how to choose a whammy bar system and use effects like dive bombing, scooping, sonic blasts, and Banshee howls. 32 minutes. VHS Video.

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YOU CAN PLAY JAZZ GUITAR

With special guests Vinnie Martucci, keyboards and Rich Syracuse, bass. Complete three tape series. This comprehensive method is clear, accessible and highly informative. Mike DeMicco has devised the essential series thatOs perfect for anyone eager to play jazz guitar. VIDEO ONE: This hands-on jazz primer contains an enormous amount of information, from improvising on II-V-I chords to arranging a complex jazz standard. Mike teaches scales, modes, voicings and other important basics, then shows how to put them to use. 82-MINUTE VIDEO * INCLUDES MUSIC + DIAGRAMS * BEGINNER LEVEL. VIDEO TWO: Mike presents dozens of examples to show how to create dazzling solos over chord changes. He uses styles developed by Mike Stern, Tal Farlow, John Coltrane and others to explain how to use solo lines, passing tones and other devices to create personalized improvisations. 80-MINUTE VIDEO * INCLUDES MUSIC + DIAGRAMS * EARLY INTERMEDIATE LEVEL. VIDEO THREE: Starting with his bebop-oriented tune 'Boptology,' Mike shows how to build creative solos, challenging players to find their own voice. The melody of this tune is a complete study tool as it illustrates a compelling synthesis of several jazz styles. Mike then takes apart the classic Victor Young standard 'Love Letters' to fully discuss chord melodies and new ideas for soloing. 60-MINUTE VIDEO * INCLUDES MUSIC + DIAGRAMS * INTERMEDIATE LEVEL.