Re: An observation on jazz guitar solo arragements...

I have a grand heap of chord melody solo books, all useless to me really because the arrangements generally exploit the artist's over-abundance of chops to the hilt, way more technique than I can muster. Check out www.lickbyneck.com, well over 100 lovey, doable jazz arrangements now inclduing separate tabs which can be imported into guitarpro if you want notation. Just listen to a few of these arrangements. Neat thing about going solo is a). You don't have to be Joe Pass or Martin Taylor really. b.) You don't have to learn them in real book keys.

"Gerry" <somewhere@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:2008033014255716807-somewhere@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 2008-03-30 12:32:21 -0700, oasysco <wilderkommen@xxxxxxxxx> said:

I have a number of books that I'm using to learn some jazz guitar solo
arrangements. Most simply harmonize each note with a full chord with
no fill notes or bass lines intersperesd with melody notes. Only a
few of the books I have actually arrange for guitar with fill notes/
passing tones, bass notes like the one I have by Dan (or is it Don?)
Towney.

Is that so? I don't have many such volumes, and the ones I do have diverse approaches, certainly including something other than block-chord voicing for every melody note. Have you seen the two Mel Bay publications of Barry Galbraith's arrangments. They are pretty diverse in techniques.
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