The first book in this series, The Truth About Jazz Guitar, has been a hit—often among the top 10 titles, occasionally the #1 title, on Kindle in the category of “Jazz.” Now The Truth About Jazz Guitar II takes off where the first book ends—21 entirely new chapters on the art of playing jazz on the guitar.
Like the first book, The Truth II is about those important elements that you need to understand if you want to make music that swings with purpose, that touches both you and whoever hears you, that elevates jazz from the machinery of scales and chords up into life itself. You’ll learn how to not only survive but to thrive at jam sessions, how to imbue the force of real confidence into your playing, how to train your hands and ears to take over from your eyes and in so doing bring a new sense of freedom and groove to your music. And of course with 21 chapters, you’ll learn much more than this.
Want a book that matches scales to chords, teaches stock jazz phrases through guitar-neck diagrams? Well this isn’t that book (though there are exercises here). If you want to learn to play basic jazz, get some other book aimed at that subject. But if you want to step up with your playing to the level of the big boys (and big girls), The Truth About jazz Guitar II will provide the footholds you need in order to rise to the exciting, amazing world of real jazz.
Each of these chapters first appeared as articles in Skip’s “Player to Player” column in Just Jazz Guitar magazine. However, they’ve been rewritten and rewritten to a high polish for this book.