The jazz standard lessons in this course all have a focus on improvised introductions and give specific guidance on manipulating and enhancing the 1625. This blog lesson provides 10 intros and endings examples with tab. Course description course content lessons status 1 classic organ licks 2 hush deep purple 3 hush 2 deep purple 4 rock organ 5 style of jimmy smith. Mel bay the fifth book from jim ferguson, all intros. He has been director of woodwind studies at north dakota state university and is currently director of jazz studies at brigham young universityidaho. Use them as a starting point to develop your own jazz endings. Jazz intros and endings offers 60 intros and endings for songs in many keys and styles. One of the things is knowing how to take an intro joe pass.
Most examples are in c major examples 1 to 14 and c minor examples 15 to 17, some are in g major. But intros and endings are equaly as important as the head of a jazz. In the last couple of articles weve been looking at jazz guitar ending chords and progressions, and now that you have. Download your free 62 page pdf beginner jazz guide. Jazz guitar intros and endings with tabs and audio files. The endings below all start with a ii v to the tonic i because that is usually the last part of a jazz standard. Watkins has over 100 compositions and arrangements, 38 are available from walrus music, roncorp, and dorn and he has produced six cds with a seventh scheduled for june 20. Intro to jazz guitar language for rockers duration. Harmonicstyle turnarounds come from the jazz influence creeping back into the blues. Printable pdf ebook method containing 40 major jazz guitar licks with.
An introduction to blues turnarounds, intros and endings. All intros and endings for jazz guitar bookcd set guitar master. All intros and endings for jazz guitar bookcd set guitar master class publications. Become a bettereducated singer, instrumentalist or teacher of jazz, with a thorough understanding of the music and the confidence that goes along with it. This should sound familiar to anyone whos ever listened to the blues. I also made a jazz intros pdf, with all the detailed explanation, tabs and. Intros and endings turnarounds can be used as intros and endings in the blues. Joshua redman and christian mcbride play this ending on the tune on the sunny side of the street from redmans selftitled 1993 debut album. Using the openstring friendly key of e, this descending figure creeps back up to the v chord b ready for the first verse. The most common are the singlenote turnarounds heard in all the different musical styles influenced by the delta blues, an early, guitardriven blues style that originated in the mississippi delta. How to solo over fly me to the moon with just 2 scales. As jazz musicians, we spend so much time and energy working on learning jazz standards and developing. Intros an intro often features a solo lick by the guitar, piano, or other instrument, but sometimes the whole band plays the intro, and the guitar is expected to play rhythms.