Get Started Playing Jazz Rhythm the way the Pros do, today!
190 page e-book with companion website including backing tracks and examples. A Crash Course in Jazz Rhythm Guitar by Jon Garner.
“I wish I had this when I was first starting off! These are really good exercises! Nice, simple explanations. This is a wonderful tool for students trying to dip their feet into the jazz idiom. Very unique in that it gets rid of the excess blubber that usually plagues other jazz guitar books. This is a jazz essentialist book!”
– Nate Burns, NYC based touring guitarist.
Simplicity. Ease. Grace.
Finally, a practical method that is neither too simple nor too complex. You won’t be overwhelmed with a thousand chords, nor bored with not enough actual playing or examples. A Crash Course in Jazz Rhythm Guitar leads you step-by-step to being able to confidently play jazz rhythm guitar. No guesswork about how or what to practice, this course is student tested and audition-won approved.
Start Really Playing Jazz Guitar Today!
Be Versatile.
Whether you’re playing in a duo or in a big band, you’ll have the foundation and confidence to hang with any group. Future books in the Crash Course Series cover advanced harmonies, drop-2 voicings, improvisation, rhythms, sightreading, chord-melody and more.
Demystify the Fretboard
A Crash Course in Jazz Rhythm Guitar is also a practical approach to learning the whole fretboard. It gives you a solid foundation which can be used in any genre of music.
All done the Gman Way.
The Gman way, the Crash Course way, is to learn the essential and use the essential wisely. It is to simplify the complex, to make the complex simple. Simplicity brings speed, ease and grace. Even the most complex music is never more than layered simplicity.
More Kind Words for Crash Course in Jazz Rhythm Guitar.
“I especially like the practical advice about simplifying in complicated or difficult song sections. Getting permission to ‘cheat’ and knowing it will work fine is a big deal ….the book becomes very useful as a practical framework of the fretboard in the end. I found the book entertaining, practical and look forward to the next!”
– Jeff Bertino, Musician, Poway Folk Circle Founder, and gratefully retired computer engineer.
“I think this is an excellent book, clearly a reflection of your knowledge and deep understanding, not only as a player, but as a teacher, too. Great job!”
– Jonathan Harnum, Author of The Practice of Practice, Practice Like This, and Basic Music Theory (Sol Ut Press.)
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