All Blues Soloing for Jazz Guitar: Scales, Licks, Concepts & Choruses

Excellent. No baby progs or dumbed down stuff. THis is not a book for beginners and unless you have a very strong theory understanding your head will spin cos he blabs on a bit about analysis that more advanced practitioners realise does not really matter or is a connotation within chord synonyms.When you know when a diminished chord should be used in passing, when you know what a tri tone substitution is and when you are clear about chord synonyms, get this book.

This should be the first book you buy when you want to learn the jazz version of the blues. A logical and systematic approach, with a great section on learning to play through the changes, it will take you far into the realm of jazz blues and do it very quickly. Teaches the basics very well, and then proceeds to advanced concepts, clearly explaining them. Uses Standard Notation, Tab, and Grid diagrams. The CD is well recorded, the examples are great.

As I have mentioned in my prior reviews, you often need to be at a certain level of playing for any given book, teacher or lesson to really take hold. I've become reasonably proficient at knowing most of my scales, including the harmonic and melodic minors, major and dominant bebop as well as arpeggios. What I have struggled with is aspects of phrasing. My instructor points out that while I'm still playing scales, I am able to make them sound pleasant, move through key centers and play through chord chart. This book, while focusing on the blues structure is an excellent tool for taking simple scale patterns and building reasonably hip lead passages with them. The author gives the scales of interest, backing tracks and a variety of examples of major scales, dorian, mixolydian and chromatic examples. This is proving to be a very helpful book for me (I've had it for a while but it hasn't caught fire until recently). Also is a set of licks that sound very good -- and in short one or two bar examples, which make them easily digestible and like I said, they sound hip enough that you do want to learn them. The book also starts out with some basic examples that sound great and it progresses from there -- but never seems to get too bogged down with complex theory or passages that are too difficult to play or understand. So I would suspect this could be a good book for players of many levels. I'm assuming that players with a basic undertanding of chords, scales and a reasonable level of playing dexterity would be able to make good use of this book.

Very good information on blues chord changes and how they get more complex into full blown bebop changes. The solos are sweet. The only issue I had was there were too many awkward page turns, so 4 stars.

Good Material for the guitarist that doesn't have hours to spend every night playing.

If you are learning this style (blues with a swing and more than 3 chords), this book is great. This is not for Eric Clapton wannabes - think Grant Green and Kenny Burrell. This book is a good companion to Ferguson's Jazz Comping book.

Very good product

Don't let the title fool you -- this book is an excellent learning guide for a wide range of guitarsits, not just jazz players. Blues, rock and even country players would beenfit from this book. Ferguson's narratives are short, clear and to the point. The solo pieces tie nicely with the narratives. Scales, modes, etc. are touched upon in an easily understood and useful manner.