This book and 2 CD set, with simple comping over the standards on Jamey Aebersold's Volume 54: Maiden Voyage, is designed for the guitarist with little or no jazz experience. Chords and voicings are explained in a manner that even the most novice guitarists will understand, with standard notation and guitar frames for each voicing. Includes demo and play-along CDs. This is a perfect prerequisite for Maiden Voyage Guitar Comping, also by Mike DiLiddo.

Six original charts for jazz combo with flexible instrumentation, transcribed solos, and play-along tracks. Includes 48 downloadable MP3 files with play-along tracks for each part. Guitar / Vibes book.

"This book is for guitarists who are new to jazz, but not beginners on guitar."--page 3.

"A comprehensive collection of bebop studies, with detailed explanation of some of jazz improvisations fundamental tools. The pages in this book contain a collection of studies developed that will help you improve your technique, knowledge of your instrument, and a feeling for jazz melodies. If practiced in tempo you will also develop a good sense of rhythm. There is a great deal of material here, all of which is based on actual jazz phrases. Any part of the following studies can be easily adopted as part of a solo. Fingerings and fret-board diagrams are included as well as an accompanying CD with 15 tracks that features the studies in this book as played by Roni Ben-Hur with the accompaniment of one of New Yorks best rhythm sections: Tardo Hammer on piano, Earl May on bass and Leroy Williams on drums. It is a powerful tool to help you master this material. Use it to listen to the studies and get acquainted with them, then practice them with the CD. You can turn the guitar channel off on the CD, and practice just with the rhythm section."

The art of improvising chord-style solos is an important part of any musician's resources. This book has been written to improve that art for guitar, vibes and all keyboard instruments. A careful study of these solos will give you a thorough understanding of chordal playing and substitutions. It is great for voicing as well as improvisation.

From the great recording artist and studio guitarist Barry Galbraith comes the first comprehensive material on the art of jazz guitar comping. This book contains jazz voicings and rhythms for a range of standards and blues, and bass parts are shown in treble clef. The recordings on the play-along CD feature excellent stereo separations, with Barry on guitar and Milt Hinton on bass, making improvisation practice fun

Contains written and recorded guitar accompaniment to the entire Volume 54: Maiden Voyage CD. This long awaited book includes easy-to-read music, chord symbols, and guitar frames above each example for the non-reading guitarist. Also included is a CD of Mike playing the voicings with the Maiden Voyage play-along. Special CD stereo separation allows you to eliminate the guitarist and sit in with just the bass and drums. These voicings are real world authentic chord voicings, not simplified sterile examples. It's a great opportunity to not only learn great jazz voicings, but to see how these voicings can be used to navigate blues, rhythm, and great standards. Band directors will love this one because now all members of the rhythm section can practice their comping with this world famous play-along (a book for pianists, drummers, and bassists are also available).