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Martin Taylor Beyond Chord Melody: Master Jazz Guitar Chord Melody with Virtuoso Martin Taylor MBE Paperback – 11 October 2018

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Master Jazz Guitar Chord Melody with Virtuoso Martin Taylor MBE

Beyond Chord Melody with Martin Taylor MBE condenses over 40 years of playing expertise and insight into this beautiful jazz guitar book. Learn from the internationally acclaimed master of jazz chord melody guitar as he guides you through his 7-step method to creating your own guitar arrangements. As a special bonus, 2 specially commissioned online videos are included, with Martin illustrating key techniques.

What you’ll learn:

7 steps to jazz chord melody guitar that will unlock your creativity
How to make a chord melody arrangement of any jazz standard.
How to play chords and solo at the same time.
Overcome the common blocks that stifle your progress
Build stunning jazz chord melody guitar arrangements
The essential components of any jazz standard
Break away from chord boxes and discover the freedom of polyphonic guitar playing

Bonus 1: Learn a complete chord melody arrangement of an original tune to consolidate all the jazz guitar techniques and kick start your jazz chord melody guitar mastery. Bonus 2: Two exclusive videos with Martin Taylor that clearly demonstrate the most fundamental aspects of his jazz guitar style.

Beyond Chord Melody Jazz Guitar

Do you struggle to create your own beautiful jazz guitar chord melody arrangements?
Do you want to find your own unique jazz guitar voice?
Do you want to improvise spontaneous chord melody guitar solos

Putting Creative Jazz Guitar Tools in Your Hands

If you love jazz chord melody guitar, you’ve probably struggled to learn other people’s arrangements, while struggling to create your own. Beyond Chord Melody teaches you Martin Taylor’s own secret formula for creating instant jazz guitar arrangements and gives you the tools to master your guitar and create your own stunning chord melody arrangements.

Here’s What You Get:

The definitive guide to jazz chord melody guitar, taught by virtuoso Martin Taylor
A step by step method that starts simple and adds layers of complexity
2 specially commissioned videos from Martin Taylor
Expert guidance on chord voicings, jazz guitar arrangements, jazz chords and soloing
An original chord melody composition to put each lesson into context.
Perfectly notated examples with tab and studio-quality audio to download for FREE.

7 Steps to Unlocking the Secrets of Solo Jazz Chord Melody Guitar Playing

Beyond Chord Melody with Martin Taylor MBE is the antidote to formulaic guitar methods. His 7-step chord melody guitar system helps you “break out of the box” and is taught in a clear, concise manner. Martin Taylor’s Beyond Chord Melody starts from basic jazz guitar theory and adds layer upon layer of detail to create your own, beautiful jazz guitar chord melody guitar arrangements.

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Publisher : www.fundamental-changes.com (11 October 2018)
Language : English
Paperback : 98 pages
ISBN-10 : 1911267825
ISBN-13 : 978-1911267829
Dimensions : 21.59 x 0.56 x 27.94 cm

Best Sellers Rank: 62,913 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 75 in Jazz Music (Books)
- 77 in Music Exercises (Books)
- 279 in Guitars

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"This book teaches a structured approach to something I've been attempting haphazardly on my own for many years ... so Martin Taylor's insights come just in time. This book is not for people who are looking for note-by-note transcriptions, but rather people who wish to create their own arrangements. There's a lot of information and encouragement from the author, and I recommend this to anyone wanting to expand their musicality." Verified Amazon review

"Outstanding book by a Master of Chord Melody. Structured pieces help you develop the skills to mastering Chord Melody. Includes links to audio/video. Highly recommended." Verified Amazon review

"This is the encyclopedia describing Martin's very flexible approach to playing the guitar (applicable to any style). It is also a fabulous, comprehensive description of harmony and melody, put in guitar terms and written in very plain and understandable language. This is a very special book! Super cool." Verified Amazon review

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steven morello

Martin Taylor's book has the staff, tabs and a few chord diagrams. Great for the beginner!

Reviewed in Australia on 5 January 2019

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I just received the book and the layouts are great. You get music on the staff as well as on tabs, so it's perfect for the beginner. There are also a few chord diagrams, so that covers most of the ways one might want to see chords on the fretboard. Also, the chord names are put on top of the staff and tab, so you can understand what you are doing in terms of theory. It's the whole package! I'm always looking for books with good presentation so that anyone can understand it without needing to know how to read the staff.

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John Toulson

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Reviewed in Australia on 19 May 2018

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Great book from the master of the polyphonic guitar.

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Gareth

A nice update to The Martin Taylor Guitar Method

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 November 2018

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This book contains a lot of the information in The Martin Taylor Guitar Method book, albeit in an updated format. If you have the original book, or even if you don't, then it's worth checking out Beyond Chord Melody.

There are lots of musical examples to help you get Martin's style of chord melody under your fingers. The examples get more and more difficult as the book goes on but it is satisfying to be able to play them if you stick with them.

The basic of Martin's style are quite easy to get your head around and even an intermediate player will be able to follow the clear instructions and gradually build up their own arrangements.

The tab is very clear and easy to read as is the printed text.

I would recommend this book if you are interested in jazz, or even interested in arranging pop chord melody arrangements. As I said, Martin's instructions are clear to follow and his system is quite simple, but you can come up with some sophisticated sounding passages once you really dig deep.

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J. D. Jawando

A mixed bag

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 October 2018

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It's difficult to be sure exactly who this is aimed at. The book's intention is to encourage guitarists to go beyond straightforward chord-melody playing and develop a polyphonic approach. As someone who has been playing for over 20 years, and experimented with chord-melody styles for most of that time, this appealed to me because I wanted to refresh my playing and improve my abilities as a jazz guitarist.

The first half of the book (which is under 100 pages long) takes a brisk tour of the building blocks: basslines, sevenths and tenths, and the CAGED system. This is very useful, and it's always good to take stock of these things, but half is a large proportion for something I am basically familiar with. Conversely, for a guitarist who is only just starting to think about solo guitar, it is probably a bit too brisk, and there are more comprehensive guides to an area that merits a lot of work.

The second half of the book takes an original melody by Martin Taylor and shows how he would apply the concepts explored in the first half to a real example. This is much more useful and I have begun to apply these concepts to my own arrangements.

If you haven't tried solo guitar playing before, this book may be a little daunting, although if you enjoy a challenge and are willing to work at it, this book does provide a lot of areas to investigate. If you feel more secure in your abilities and are looking to improve, there are also a lot of areas to explore, but you may need to skip material you are already familiar with. The book could probably assume more knowledge as there are already plenty of resources for less experienced guitarists.

The audio examples and two video lessons which can be downloaded, are very useful although they feel like an added extra.

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Mr Christopher Wagg

Unlocking the secrets of Martins playing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 October 2018

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Its hard not to be impressed by the virtuosity of Martin Taylor and whilst I will never aspire to getting close it is none the less good to try and see how far you can get. I have followed Martins video courses and also purchased His Guitar Method by Mel Bay but can say that this book is the most thorough at building his approach from the ground up. You find that its not about knowing all the fingerings for multitudes of chord extensions but having a thorough knowledge of the fretboard and being able to harmonise the major scale. With this knowledge there are plenty of exercises within the book that teach you how create movement within the bass, melody and inner lines. Add a bit of chromatics and that's it. The book also culminates in a thorough examination of how the method it applied to a take on Autumn Leaves. Knowing how Martin does it is great to know but it leaves you just as amazed that he can create so much movement on multiple levels at the same time. Polyphonic as he calls it. Good Luck!

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John

well worth the money

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 June 2018

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This is a very well written book . The language is very clear and many audio examples are provided to illustrate the the topics. It will take a lot of work from the student to get the full benefits of the book as Martin and Joseph are providing you with the tools to create the finished article and you should view this as a long term exercise not a quick hit particularly if you normally play with a plectrum

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Pete

Brilliant, progressive exercises that’ll no doubt explain why you’ve previously struggled with CM.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 September 2018

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Easy to follow, simple but very effective methodology for rooting second or third fingers on bass notes, therefore leaving fingers available for lower or higher fret positions to play chord and melody notes. Reduces jazz chords down to the essentials of 3rd and 7th notes so you get to develop an ear for what type of chord is needed next. Deals with the physical practicalities of playing chord melody.

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