Larry Coryell’s Jazz Guitar, Volume 2

Larry Coryell’s Jazz Guitar three part DVD series presents an intense and challenging study of jazz guitar ideas. In this second volume the following subjects are discussed: – Creating the improvised line. – Substitute chords. – Importance of the minor/major 7th sound. – The jazz (ascending melodic) minor scale and related chords. – How to apply the jazz minor scale to standards. – Repositioning altered chords to fit single-note fingering options within the jazz minor spectrum. – Vocabulary of the improvised line. – Blues phrasing to a more sophisticated bebop-type of line. – Guitaristic devices that advance the music, i.e. string-bending, octaves and fingering. – How to play/improvise on, “Autumn Leaves”, as a solo guitar performance or within a small group context. – More involved chords and improvisation with John Coltrane’s, “Moments’s Notice”.
Customer Review: Book Two – Do Book One First
This isn’t a beginners course and you’ll need to know what was in Volume One before doing this course.

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 20 (?) page one to download from the DVD’s PDF file. There’s a lot of good work to be done here.
Customer Review: It`s worth your money I recommend
I find it`s very useful, even I`m profesional musican over 15 years.
I like that interesting, and understandable approach to guitar, from this man.
I`m happy with this video. “BUY NOW”