The Developing Jazz Guitarist is an interactive video designed for use by music educators as well as beginning and intermediate level guitar students. By clicking on the appropriate links, the student or educator can, at their discretion, view the whole video or any individual section they choose just by a click of the mouse. Most music educators are not guitarists themselves and have little if any training on how to teach the instrument. Most beginning and intermediate level jazz guitar students are unaware of how to develop all of the areas of jazz guitar performance so as to become complete players. Tom Hynes has combined his years of experience as both a player and teacher to create a complete approach to teaching and learning the instrument.
Many of the concepts spoken of are enhanced by charts that appear both on the screen and in a supplemental textbook that can be downloaded as a PDF file below. All of the important issues facing the young jazz guitarist are dealt with thoroughly.
Watch Videos:
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How To Get The RIGHT Sound
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Chord Shapes I
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Chord Shapes II
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Swing Rhythm Guitar
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Modern Jazz Comping
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Latin/Funk Rhythm Guitar
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Scale Shapes I
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Scale Shapes II
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Tips On Technique
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Soloing
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Final Thoughts
I can’t thank you enough for this great information. As a beginning jazz musician, this help’s to fill the void that’s created by learning a little bit of theory and a few chords from where ever you can and not knowing what to do with any of it. The guitar instructor teaching in the video’s, is an outstanding player. Thanks for making this available … and free to boot? Amazing. Thank you very sincerely.
Thanks for the great Jazz primer Tom! You are fantastic teacher! I like the way you explain each lesson in a straight to the point, easily understandable way, without turning the lesson into a 30 minute lecture full of $500 words. It seems so many Jazz instructors talk down to you in order to make themselves appear to be some sort of gifted musical genuis, far superior to what you the student could ever be. You take the mystery out of Jazz and make learning fun!
Great Stuff. Thank you.
Thank you so much for providing these excellent videos and the pdf materials. They are a great help and enjoyable. You are a wonderful instructor.