Best Jazz Guitar Comping Techniques & Tips for Beginners - Learn Jazz Guitar Chords & Rhythms for Live Performances & Practice Sessions

Jazz Guitar Comping by Andrew Green is the newest volume in what is now a trilogy of great worth on the art of playing jazz guitar. This is an approach to help one learn how to comp musically in a small group setting. Andrew Green organizes the material in ways that are easy to understand and visualize. Every concept he puts forth is illustrated by a track on the accompanying CD and the quality of the recording and the content (great playing) are first rate. The four studies with analysis that finish the book are amazing not only because they are played by some really great players who work their art every day in New York and all over the world, but also because Andrew can write about what's going on in the group measure by measure and give us real insight into the spontaneous creation that is essential to jazz. This book is very much about playing jazz today, a time in which guitar is often the only chord instrument in the ensemble. It also is not an academic approach but rather a look at how a practicing professional musician with spirit and imagination approaches his role in the band. There's lots of good material here - highly reccomend!