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Martin Taylor’s 3 in 1 Jazz Guitar Method Compilation

Three best-selling jazz guitar books in one definitive edition

Beyond Chord Melody

Walking Bass for Jazz Guitar

Single Note Soloing for Jazz Guitar

Never before has so much jazz guitar insight been gathered together in one volume. With almost 300 pages and hundreds of musical examples, Martin Taylor takes you on a journey through his virtuoso approaches to chord melody guitar, combining basslines with chords, and how to really solo like a jazz guitar icon.

Beyond Chord Melody

• Do you struggle to create beautiful chord melody guitar arrangements?
• Do you want to find your own unique jazz guitar voice?

Beyond Chord Melody with Martin Taylor MBE condenses over 40 years of playing expertise and insight into this beautiful jazz guitar book. Learn from the internationally acclaimed master of jazz chord melody guitar as he guides you through his 7-step method to creating your own guitar arrangements.

Learn these Jazz Guitar Chord Melody Skills

• 7 steps to jazz chord melody guitar that will unlock your creativity
• How to make a chord melody arrangement of any jazz standard.
• How to play chords and solo at the same time.
• Build stunning jazz chord melody guitar arrangements
• Break away from chord boxes and discover the freedom of polyphonic jazz guitar playing

Walking Bass for Jazz Guitar

• Do you struggle to combine jazz guitar chords with walking basslines?
• Do you want to play walking bass and chords over any jazz standard?

Walking Bass for Jazz Guitar distils over 40 years of virtuosity and skill into one beautiful jazz guitar book. Learn from the internationally acclaimed master of jazz chord melody guitar as he teaches you, step-by-step, how to play walking basslines on guitar and combine them with rock solid rhythm guitar chords.

• The fundamental concepts of building walking basslines from scratch
• How to play walking bass exactly like a bass player
• How to play chords and basslines at the same time to become the ultimate rhythm player
• The secrets of syncopation and harmonic phrasing
• Jazz bass rhythmic skips and pick tricks that imitate a jazz drummer’s brushes

Single Note Soloing for Jazz Guitar

• Do you find yourself playing the same clichéd jazz licks when faced with a set of chord changes?
• Do you struggle to play the jazz lines you hear in your head?

In Single Note Soloing for Jazz Guitar Martin Taylor MBE helps you to play authentic jazz guitar solos. Learn how a virtuoso jazz guitarist thinks and constructs melodic ideas to create rich, engaging jazz solos.

Jazz Guitar Soloing –  What You’ll Learn:

• A time-honoured method for jazz improvisation that puts music before theory
• How to take a simple melody and vary it while adding layers of complexity
• How to define melodic “hit points” to anchor your solos to the melody
• How to target specific notes in chords to create different colours and textures
• Hundreds of licks and etudes

As well as demonstrating dozens of licks, Martin shows you how a very simple tune can be developed into a full-blown jazz solo using his unique jazz guitar soloing method.

There’s also time to teach you to play exactly what you hear in your head and master the authentic jazz guitar skills that you can’t learn anywhere else.

This is the definitive guide to the jazz guitar thinking of one of the world’s greatest musicians. All his jazz guitar secrets are in here… don’t miss out.