Can anyone recommend me some good Jazz guitar books on playing, theory ect. I've token an interest in jazz guitar playing recently; I've only been playing guitar for 2 years (I'm 17) and I'm now working on my grades but I usually play rock and blues stuff. I want to learn jazz chords, scales, theory ect and it would be great if someone could give some advice/recommendations on which book/books to buy (I tend to learn more about chords, scales ect from books but I use the internet for learning songs)

Cheers for reading!

Hey BluesJwot,

I started recently with a course from Dick Groove which I can highly recommend. This is called a musicianship course this course is on theory and gets into Jazz. Even Pebber and many other great musicians has done this course. Than there is on the same site also a guitar course which is called Beyond Chops this seems to be a great course as well. It starts with learning all the Pent scales but soon goes into chords and its inversions, improvisation etc. The only sad thing is both courses are not cheap but they come with DVD's and CD's and some books. It's all written in the 90's so a bit old but again the material is very good and highly recommended not only by me but by a lot of other professional musicians.

take a look at the below link

Dick Grove School Without Walls

If you have more questions feel free to ask here or drop me a mail I could show you a sample.

p.s. let me know if you ordered something and will start doing the course it would be fun to open a thread on it and share stuff we learn and ask questions to eachother.

The courses sound great! If I had the money I would do the courses but at the moment I don't. I'll probably do the courses in a year or two because I will have the money by then.
Iv'e ordered this: Complete Jazz Guitar Method: Mastering Jazz Guitar-Jody Fischer), I'll let you know once I have the book.

Cheers for the reply!

Dude did you buy those books????

Im not pro hacking and Pirateting but check this search on google.

Jazz Guitar Method

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I have Volume 1 and 2 just without the audio cd's. Both books seem to be very interesting I wish you lots of fun with it. Post some of your progress here from time to time

p.s. Are you also follow Pebbers Practice Routine?

I've just found out about Pebber Brown a week ago by watching his videos (Practice Routine) and they've helped my picking alot

Cheers for the advice Ray1981 and Adam! I will defiantly look into that book Adam. The Daily Practice routine videos and PDF's are bloody brilliant; I've downloaded the Intermediate Root 6 & Root 5 Bar Chords, Nomenclature of Chords and Basic Chord Families because I'm working on my music theory.

Jazz lick I learned today; my picking is getting better but I still need to work on it, same as my speed and timing . You might already know it but if you want to learn it here's a photo with tab/notation.

Hey very very cool man

Now try play this dorian scale with a backing track. Check the one below I like this one a lot (So What Miles Davis).

Miles David is great! I like it!

Hey Adam

I missed your reply completely last time silly me. But you recommend some nice books I will have search on those. I got. Lately I started to work on improv and learning tunes after following module 1 and 2 for about 14 months without really learning a lot songs. Now I spend much more time on songs .

ut Im very confused about Real Books and Fake books, whats so real and fake and which to use? There a lot of those books different keys and differnt versions. So maybe you or anybody els could recommend one to us?

Anybody nows where to buy this book in PDF: Jazz Practice Ideas With Your Real Book. I found Amazon but has only in Kindle or hardcopy.

Thanks in advance

Cheers for the advice, I will use one when I upload new videos to keep me in time. I've ben listening to alot of Holdsworth recently, he is probably one of my favourite guitarist's at the moment!!

He Adam

Thanks for the clear response, I think I will have to o for the Kindle version I havent found any legal pdf version.

Cool thread though!

Fully agree on you Adam!!!!

Pirating kills the industry which result in less great music (or any other form of art), this is one of the reason why I still buy original albums instead of downloading.

BTW, yesterday I bought the Practicing Ideas with the Real Book. I wanted it in PDF so I could print it for myself Kindle doesnt allow you to do. I like to have the sheet music on my stand instead of on a pc screen or Tables. But this book dont have a lot of musical example its a lot of text. But a very good book though.

Thanks Adam

Great idea, I was aware of this possibility and thought I have to do it like that. Now I see you do this too sometimes maybe you like this freeware program called greenshot. You can select the area which you want to copy and you can choose with one click where you would like it to copy to. So you could send it straight to word for example. It is really a great program for such things.

Greenshot

I hope I have helped you too ;)

Well its easier to have the pdf allready instead of making screenshots. That was the only reason I was searching for the pdf.

My apologizes Adam!!!!!!