Joe Pass Guitar Style: Learn the Sound of Modern Harmony & Melody

This book is like a 4 year degree and is like private lessons with one if the Greatest Jazz Guitarist of our time and is immortalized sharing his amazing talent. The information and knowledge gained from studying this and his other books are Timeless.

this book requires a LOT of theory knowledge.Luckily(although a little rusty) I know a fair amount,& can relate to some of they're style of theory.But I'm still only on first ten or so pages.Some thing's just baffle me & I'll need to figure them out with someone else.Flicked towards the back of book where there's examples of music & I'm looking forward to play actual song's.Through the book it mention's "on the CD disk" which the book should have came with( maybe that would make things easier).

Excellent book.I'm always reading a guitar book. I take my time. One book may take me a year, but I read it slowly and as a result I absorb everything.My favorite author for guitar technique and theory is Joseph Alexander. This book was recommended by Jens Larson. He is an excellent jazz guitarist and his website has lots of great useful resources.So far I'm finding this book to be a wealth of knowledge.Take your time, work through it slowly, and add it to your music bookshelf. It will be an excellent reference for all players.

OK Caveot first. I have bought this book, and this is a inital impression. The author's words, on pg. 1 sum up my general impression. His words are "The material is designed as more of a reference than a method." This book has music theory, with each concept having a scale or two to illustrate. However, this appears to be much more of a reference book for people who already are familiar with playing some jazz, and just need a quick example for a concept that they are interested in. It makes sense that people have used this as a reference. It also would only make sense as a main teaching text, if the teacher wanted to insure that the students had to come to him to learn (aka: fill in the blanks in this book, and provide regimen for training.) Of course Joe Pass was a great player, but like engineers trying to teach, we all know that being great at something doesn't mean that you can teach it. I'd be cautious in recomending this book to a novice to jazz, lest it initidate him and turn him off to the joy of playing jazz. I gave this three stars, just to get attention to my point of view. I'm sure that any intermediate to advanced student can benefit from having this book in his library.

Excellent book

Plus: It gives me insight into the mind of a musical genius.Minus: Musical genius is apparently beyond me.When I listen to Joe play, I am so awed by his abilities that it temporarily makes me feel compelled to throw all my guitars off a very tall structure and I have been playing for exactly 50 years. I'm hoping to understand and partially master the techniques in this book before I kick the bucket, I just need to live another 65 years.Stupidly, I bought the non CD version. Now I have to get the CD version.

I love Joe Pass and watching his many old instructional videos that can be found on YouTube. I do think from what I've seen in his videos and now from going through this book is he's such a pro, I think he forgets that he's TEACHING non-genius amateurs. Just spouting information isn't enough.The entire chord section of the book... HAS. NO. CHORD. DIAGRAMS.Not a one...There are example after example of chord progressions for you to practice without any suggestions of what form of those chords you should play or what fingerings to use.There are pages of theory regarding substitutions and other chord theory without any explanation as to why it's relevant and how you'd actually use it musically. It's a big contrast from one of my favorite (classical) instruction books; Solo Classical Guitar 1 by Frederick Noad. The whys are well explained, as is fingering. There are exercises and it slowly feeds you more useful information as you become more advanced.This feels like it was written and edited by pro jazz guitarists with little thought towards how a beginner or intermediate player would use the info. I think without a jazz/guitar teacher to guide you and a book of chords, this book doesn't offer much on its own, but that just may be the way my brain works and the learning styles I work best with.

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Should be a great book, Pages show track numbers on CD, but, No CD? What's going on?

I had this book 25 years ago. Not sure what happened to it. (You know how it goes.) Challenging content, but I feel ready for it now. Thought it might be nice to have on kindle to read on trains etc, but the notation doesn't scale up when you increase the font size. Kindle price is pretty much the same as ink on paper, so cancelled the kindle and going down the analogue route.In the intro Joe says "if these ideas are totally new to you, there may be other books you might investigate before finishing this one". Take a look at the couple of pages in the Amazon "look inside" preview. Should tell you all you need to know.

The blues pieces here are worth the price of the book on their own.

I'll start by saying I am fascinated by Joe Pass. What a player. I read an interview of his saying how hard his father made him work at playing as a youngster. Hours and hours of scales and playing by ear and from sheet music. He's a testament to hard work. Without dedicated study time you won't reap rewards from this.

Joe gives a great route for players to discover the guitar across the neck. His melodic lines in the book are very tasty jazz phrases.. I'm enjoying it..