Anyone can learn to play classic jazz guitar phrases! This hit introductory book now comes with a DVD to make it even easier to understand. This smash-hit jazz guitar beginner's book has been updated with an instructional DVD for beginners. This book offers a triple-pronged approach: understanding through diagrams and illustrations, listening to the music on a CD, and learning videos on a DVD. Even beginners will be able to play jazzy phrases thanks to this comprehensive training. The music sheet is now larger and easier to read, so your eyes won't tire before your fingers do. Whether you play electric or acoustic guitar, this is especially recommended for those who want to "just play jazzy phrases without any complicated theory" or "play cool jazz phrases in front of an audience"! *This book is the definitive introductory book to jazz guitar, combining the previously published "Mock Jazz Guitar" with "DVD Version of Mock Jazz Guitar," enlarged in size, and including new manuscripts. [CONTENTS] ■Part 1 Super easy jazz lesson! [Backing] Add one note to the chord and play it to sound like it! Play with jazzy chord forms! Play more jazzy chords! Play with a typical rhythm! The bass moves smoothly and mysteriously! Take a detour to the next fret! Take a detour to Diminish! Try using the code behind it! Experience practical and frequently used tension chords! [Solo Edition] A jazzy solo in A minor pentatonic scale! No choking or distortion! Play with a jazzy rhythm! Play with a slightly strange rhythm! Creates a jazzy swing feel! Play the A minor pentatonic scale by adding two notes to the five notes! A mix of A minor pentatonic and A major pentatonic! Play octaves like Wes! Get a jazzy chord feel with chord tones! Use different pentatonic scales for different chords! Sometimes he plays really weird notes! Fill in the gaps between chord tones with semitones! Embrace economy/sweep picking! [Jazz and Blues Edition] First, let's play a 12-bar standard blues! Experience the classic chord progressions of jazz and blues! Remember the usual code just before the end! Karate chop!? Jazz + Choking = Jazz Blues! ■Part 2 32 practice phrases! [Basics] Mechanical phrases for fingering training Diminished arpeggios Condimi scale training Sweep picking phrases Chord tone arpeggios [Backing] Two-Five Speedy Chord Change with Thumb Chord Backing Phrases with walking bass, backing with diminished notes, consecutive backing chords, bossa nova style jazz backing [Solo Edition] Mellow Chord Solo 1 Mellow Chord Solo 2 Mellow Chord Solo 3 Mellow Chord Solo 4 Solo: Continuous syncopated phrase using only Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So-La-Si-Do. Octave solo 1 using thumb picking. Octave Solo 2 Out-of-the-box condimium phrases, bebop phrases, chromatic phrases, and solos with sweep picking. [Jazz and Blues Edition] Practical 12-bar backing Practical 4-beat backing Phrases with walking bass Advanced solos with chords Solos using various rhythms Solos with choking Call and response style phrases Comprehensive 28-bar solo ■Special supplement: Experience super easy jazz guitar on DVD [Backing] ◎ Learn jazzy chords! Major 7th / Dominant 7th / Minor 7th / Minor 7th flat 5th ◎ Learn basic jazz-like chord progressions! ll-Vl chord progression in major / ll-Vl chord progression in minor ◎ Try playing with a jazzy rhythm! (1)?(2) 4-beat Pattern Comping ◎ Let's play more jazzy sounds! (1)?(4) Super Lazy Two-Note Chord Backing: Making the Bass Move Smoothly and Mysteriously (Two-Note Comping & Bass) Try using conventional tension chords and shifting half steps [Solo Edition] ◎ Learn jazzy phrases! (1)?(3) A jazzy rhythm-driven phrasing technique with decorative slide-up style starting from a semitone below the 2nd and 4th beats. Learn the Do-Re-Mi scale (major scale)! ◎ Try improvising using only the Do-Re-Mi scale! ◎ Learn the notes that make up a chord! ◎ Learn the pentatonic scale! ◎ Play more jazzy with pentatonic phrases! (1)?(5) Emphasize the blues feeling with a ♭5th. Minor pentatonic + major 3rd. Dorian scale Octave playing using many joints [Practical Edition] ◎ Let's play solos and backings using standard jazz chord progressions! (1)?(6) I△7-Vlm7-llm7-V7 Backing: Play by omitting the bass root note I△7-Vlm7-llm7-V7 Solo: Play only Do-Re-Mi scale 167 I△7-VI7-IIm7-V7 Backing: Application of semitone shift 168 I△7-VI7-IIm7-V7 Solo: Using chord notes 169 IIm7(♭5)-V7-lm Backing: Standard tension for minor II-VI chords 170 IIm7(♭5)-V7-lm Solo: Easy play with minor pentatonics + ♭5th 171