20 Great Ways to Mess with Jazz Standards will allow you to play chorus after chorus of jazz standards differently each time!
Can you imagine how cool that would be!
Dear Finger Zingers,
If you would like to know 20 easy tricks to make your solo guitar arrangements more interesting then this is the most important post that you’ll read today.
But First, A Caveat:
I personally cannot guarantee any success on your part if you buy this book!
As with all aspects of playing guitar, or any instrument for that matter, what you put into it, you get out of it.
Now, I’m not saying to corporate all 20 concepts into a standard at once. That would be madness (or would it?)!
But certainly take one concept and play around with it for a while. Maybe take an hour, a day, or a few days and make the concept yours, then apply it where you like. Simple!
What You Are Getting
I’ve had a few secret sheets of paper floating around for years. These sheets contain snippets of concepts that I use, and that I teach to my students, that hold the super power to change your approach to playing standards (or any pop song for that matter)!
Ok, perhaps “super power” is a bit strong but it sure is fun watching students come in having composed something great with these concepts.
The PDF book is around 30 pages of which 25 are the meat of the book. The explanations are short with no filler. Sure, I could easily make the book twice as long but I want you to read and instantly try to apply the concepts instead of wading through filler.
There are tab and sheet music examples for each concept PLUS there is a Musescore file, which you can slow down and loop, showing how the example is played!
You will also receive some Free Bonus Material including
An Intro and Solo tab and sheet music arrangement of Why Don’t You Do Right with a video where you can watch where I play it
The tab and sheet music arrangement of a solo piece in Hungarian Minor which has a lovely minor melody that will make your friends say “Wow!”.
The tab and sheet music for a piece using Lydian CLuster Triads. The piece is called Tupacem (you might have heard it already) and has a beautiful spacey vibe.
Tabs and sheet music for a short composition using 3-part Fourths which offer some excellent sounds!
It’s MORE Than Just the Concepts
Although the title of the book is 20 Ways to Mess with Standards the book also covers several important fundamentals which you should apply to every song before applying the 20 concepts.
There is also a section about finding your own voice on the instrument.
All the great guitarists (no names please) have their own voice on the instrument so you should find your own voice too. (Secret You already have your own voice, you just need to develop it.)!
Here is exactly how the book can help you…..
Learn how to start with a bare bones arrangement and build upon each chorus to make your music more interesting. This is a time tested way to make your arrangements and music more interesting.
By getting the fundamentals in place you will know the tune inside out making it much easier to play and improvise over
Your ear will get used to new sounds which will spark your creativity (for example I went a bit nuts when I started playing quartal harmony) and you will start to hear places where different concepts will fit.
You will gain better fretboard knowledge which will make you play, improvise and compose better. Everyone wants that!
You can impress your friends by playing concepts that they might not have heard about before! This is especially true when you start adding interesting harmonies to boring old pop songs etc!
How to finish a tune in a really cool way. Every beginner and most intermediate guitarists end tunes the same way. Be different and make people say “Wow, that’s really cool!”.
Why the diminished chord is so important in jazz. Truth be told, I never understood the full use of diminished chords but now that I do I use them everywhere. They sound so COOL.
There are many more benefits of buying this book and I could list them but I don’t want to bore you. So, instead, I’ll give you just one more great reason to buy the book.
The 2 BEST Reasons To Buy The Book
The first BEST reason (apart from self-gain) is that you are supporting the Modern Guitar Harmony website which is dedicated to helping guitarists world wide in many ways (see the About Us page or the Home page).
The second BEST reason to buy the 20 Ways eBook NOW is for BRAGGING RIGHTS. Lol. but I kid you not. This is how it works. Once you learn a concept you can then pass that concept onto other people. These people will then look at you IN AWE or at least with new eyes and new found respect! What this will do is to encourage you to learn more so that you can share even more information with them!!
This will in turn make you a better guitar player with better knowledge and who doesn’t want that!
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