Master Jazz Blues Soloing with a Legend of Jazz Guitar
Are you struggling to make your jazz guitar playing sound authentic?
Losing the sense of the blues in your playing as you chase the changes?
The secret to authentic jazz guitar playing lies in the simple understanding that its roots are found in the blues. It’s all about taking that heritage and gradually adding richer harmony, more colourful notes and smarter phrasing.
In The Blues to Jazz Guitar Method, Martin Taylor teaches you how to turn a straight 12-bar blues into a convincing, authentic jazz blues.
As well as instantly improving your rhythm chops, you’ll discover a layered approach to soloing that starts with a jazzier take on pentatonics and develops into the sound of real jazz blues guitar phrasing.
Throughout, you will upgrade chords with musically satisfying extended notes, expand your vocabulary, refine your phrasing, be deliberate about your note choice, add chromatics, create turnarounds… and connect everything through guide-tone harmony and walking basslines.
What You’ll Learn
Jazz Blues Chords: Upgrade a standard I–IV–V blues with 9th and 13th voicings, and tasteful embellishments that deliver a jazz feel straight away
Pentatonic Phrasing That Keeps the Blues in Every Line: It’s one thing to play pentatonics like B.B. King, but quite another to sound like Wes Montgomery and Joe Pass. You’ll quickly learn how.
Turnarounds and Classic Movement: Add momentum inside the 12-bar form with chromatic motion, II–V ideas, and bebop style turnarounds that keep the last bars alive
Guide Tone Harmony and Walking Basslines: Use simple 3rd and 7th voicings to harmonise bass movement and create chord parts that sound sophisticated but feel logical under the fingers
Layered Jazz Blues Soloing: Starting with minor pentatonic and blues scale language, add major pentatonic colour, then target intervals such as 9ths and 13ths, outlining changes when the harmony demands it
Complete Solos and Studies: Learn four full jazz blues solos with rhythm parts and full. Complete the picture with a chords, bass and melody study that showcases the genius of how Martin builds a solo guitar performance
Dr Martin Taylor MBE ranks amongst the most acclaimed jazz guitarists in the world. Both Chet Atkins and Pat Metheny have praised his guitar mastery. This book captures his theory-lite approach in a complete, structured method.
Why This Book Will Change Your Playing
Forget heavy theory and abstract rules, this method teaches the sounds that make jazz blues guitar work, then gives you actual material you can use in real music.
You’ll learn how to:
- Comp through a jazz blues with authentic chord colour and forward motion
- Create licks, lines, phrases and turnarounds that stop each chorus from sounding the same
- Solo with better feel, better note choice, and a stronger jazz blues identity
- Combine chords, bass and melody into a complete solo guitar framework you can adapt to other tunes
- Speak the language of authentic jazz guitar
Includes Audio Download & Bonus Video
Every example is written in clear notation and TAB, and includes free downloadable audio, so you can capture the feel, articulation, and phrasing that makes the vocabulary come alive.
If you want to play jazz guitar solos that are authentic and keep the blues at the centre while you add real jazz colour, Martin Taylor: The Blues to Jazz Guitar Method will give you a complete, musical path from blues to jazz.
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