Insights From A Jazz Guitarist
Timeless Wisdom & Other Useable Stuff
$29.99
You can learn your scales, chords, arpeggios, substitutions, and theory.
But at some point, the real question becomes:
How do you turn all of that into music that sounds like you?
This small book is about that next step.
Inside are the kinds of lessons jazz guitarists often only encounter through one-on-one study with a thoughtful teacher—the subtle ideas that help connect technique, harmony, phrasing, creativity, and personal expression.
Let these concepts sink in.
They can help awaken the creative voice that may already be there, waiting beneath all the practicing, studying, and searching.
Your voice as a jazz guitarist is not something to imitate into existence.
It is something to discover, shape, trust, and let flourish.
Essential Concepts
A Comprehensive Guide For The Contemporary Guitarist
$24.95
Beautifully laid out, Essential Concepts provides over 200 pages of:
- Comprehensive scale and arpeggio patterns that cover the entire fretboard.
- Solo in any key, anywhere on the fretboard!
- Over 300 Movable chord forms covering any and every chord you’ll ever need!
- A Chord/Scale Application Chart that shows you what scales will work over which chords.
Take away the guess work of making your solos sound good! Over 60 step-by-step exercises that smoothly and easily lead you through the process of understanding music theory and applying it to guitar. Be able to understand and recognize chord progressions, know what key you’re in, know what scales will give you the sound you want in any situation. Understand how music works! Knowing theory can make you a confident player in any situation. This book can help you with that confidence!
“In Essential Concepts, Ted Vieira has written a very thorough and complete guide for guitarists and musicians in general. The text is easy to read and understand; and in a series of detailed and comprehensive steps and exercises, Ted leads the student through the different processes that are necessary to acquire the requisite skills of a jazz improviser. I recommend this book to musicians and guitarists of all levels without qualification.”
– John Stowell, jazz guitarist