Larry Coryell’s Jazz Guitar, Volume 3

Larry Coryell’s Jazz Guitar three part DVD series presents an intense and challenging study of jazz guitar ideas. This third volume is for the guitarist who is really serious about playing advanced music. The following subjects are discussed: *Sweep-picking, back-picking, playing triplets with pick and fingers and how you can apply these techniques. *Rhythm guitar playing, i.e. with plectrum; Brazilian-oriented fingerstyle techniques. *Chords and bass lines in four-beat jazz using just the fingers. *Comping on John Coltrane’s, “Giant Steps”. *How to solo over, “Giant Steps”, using harmonic “shortcuts” and unorthodox chord changes. *Reharmonization of both the melody and the so-called “blowing” changes when they differ from the melody changes. *Complete transcription of both melody and reharmonized “blowing” changes for Charles Mingus’s, “Goodbye Porkpie Hat”, plus tips on improvising ideas. *Defining characteristics of advanced improvisation. A detailed tab/mkusic instructional booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD.
Customer Review: You Know What its Like if You Did One and Two
This isn’t a beginners course. You’ll need to have done One and Two before you start this DVD.

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 20 (?) page full size one to download from the DVD’s PDF file. There’s a lot of good work to be done here. “BUY NOW”