Larry Coryell’s Jazz Guitar, Volume 1

Presents an intense and challenging study of jazz guitar ideas. In the first volume the following subjects are discussed: *Major scales and playing these in different positions and variations. *Minor, Diminished, Whole Tone, and Augmented scales. *Chromatic scales *Accents within picking patterns. *Arpeggios *Modes and Intervals *Building and intellectual understanding between scales and chords. *Movements between harmony and bass lines. *Going beyond diatonic chord/scale usage. *Single-note line improvising over changes. *Substitute chords and soloing. A detailed tab/music instructional booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD.
Customer Review: So you want to play jazz and fusion?
Well this is a good place to start so long as you’ve been playing the guitar for a couple of years. This isn’t a beginners course and you’ll need to know how to play barre chords and get around the scales a bit. If you don’t know how you soon will with these DVDs. Takes you right from the start – how to warm up, what Larry does every day, scales and then into improvising around scales and harmonies.

As a player and teacher, I can tell you there’s hundreds of guitar DVD out there (I’ve given up wathcing them now as there are so many bad ones it’s a joke trying to review them all for students). This is one of the best. Larry is a great communicator and these DVDs are a very good source of materials if you want to get into fusion and jazz. Players wanting to do the Satriani / Vai thing would do well to pay attention and see the sources of mauch of that style of playing here in fusion. You don’t have to finger tap all the time – you’ll see some seriously fast conventional playing on this DVD.

Summary – an excellent DVD for studying the basics of jazz and fusion. Try “Non Nonsense Jazz Guitar” by Jimmy Bruno as well. Larry Coreyell’s book, “Jazz Guitar” from Guitar Player publishing would go well with this DVD, although the DVD does come with a booklet and a full size 21 page one to download from the DVD’s PDF file. There’s a lot of good work to be done here. “BUY NOW”