Members IndofunkCity Posted September 21, 2005 Members Posted September 21, 2005 Hi, I want to sound like Joe Pass. But I'm too lazy to transcribe his stuff myself, and plus I have trouble hearing all the chords he uses in his chord solos and I'd never get the fingerings right anyways. Does anyone know of a good book of transcriptions that has a good collection of his chord solos, preferably in staff notation as well as tab? (I read staff better than tab, but I want to get my fingers on teh right frets) So far, this is what I've found, but it looks like it's mostly single note solos. I do like the fact that it comes with a CD. I may just get it
Members Avril Rocks Posted September 21, 2005 Members Posted September 21, 2005 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0769217109/ref=pd_sim_b_2/104-5130023-7467141?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance This one's about 70 pages of chord solos, tab and notation.
Members gennation Posted September 21, 2005 Members Posted September 21, 2005 Get the video at the top of this list "Solo Jazz Guitar". I have this video and he shows you exactly how to play like he does. It's an awesome video.I can vouch for Solo Jazz Guitar, but I bet the others are as good too. Oh yeah, scroll down through that page and you'll see all the 'method' books. But, that one video will show you how he plays/thinks jazz.
Members IndofunkCity Posted September 21, 2005 Author Members Posted September 21, 2005 Wow, awesome replies, thanks!Avril, I think that's exactly what I need. And if I want to hear the actual recordings, looks like they're all from these CDs gennation, I can't find it on DVD (I don't have a VHS player), but I'll keep looking.Thanks again! I'll be back in about 50 years when I can play like Joe
Poparad Posted September 21, 2005 Posted September 21, 2005 The book by Dan Towey is quite good. With the exception of one transcription, which is from the Joe and NHOP duet album "Chops," all the pieses are solo performances and the transcritptions are great. Dan Towey also has another book out called "Jazz Guitar Chord Melodies for Solo Guitar" that's in the vien of Joe Pass playing. Unlike other chord melody books which just have the head to a tune harmonized, this one actually has several improvised choruses done for each tune.
Members red|dragon Posted September 23, 2005 Members Posted September 23, 2005 If you really want to sound like Joe Pass you need to learn chord melodies and lots of different voicings. Like take the song Autumn Leaves: Amin7 - be able to play that chord 4 different ways on the bottom 4 strings, 4 different ways on the middle 4 strings and then 4 different ways on the top 4 strings so when you are playing those chords play the Amin scale on the top high string for each of the chords so you'll get like Amin9, Amin11 Amin 13, Amin, Amin6 whatever- you'll see you can play Amin soooooooo many different ways. Now, do that for EVERY CHORD. good luck...lol
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