For years I received hundreds of requests from students for a book or video on jazz/blues rhythm phrases. I’ve always found that the blues progression served as a great vehicle for teaching the fundamentals of jazz. My first video “The Blues from Rock to Jazz” emphasized improvising on blues progressions. Following lots of requests from customers, Warner Bros. decided to release a rhythm guitar series titled “Rhythm Chops.” I tackled the jazz version. Once again the jazz/blues was the perfect structure to demonstrate chord moves used by legends of jazz guitar. I wrote several 12 bar comps which show my favorite voicings and chord movements. The section on 1/2 step connection is a extremely useful and easy tool for creating sophisticated chromatic movements. Thanks to a fine rhythm section, the demonstrations and play-along segments came out very good.
-Don Mock 6/02
The video packaging limitations required Warner to only add a small tab booklet of the examples. Below is the full music and tab PDF version available to download for those who have the video.http://www.donmockguitar.com/pdf/JazzGuitarRhythmChops.pdfsee additional post:
http://donmockguitar2.blogspot.com/2009/09/jazz-rhythm-chops-dvd-booklet-pdf.html
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