Jazz-Rock Triad Improvising for Guitar: Private Lessons Series (Musicians Institute: Private Lessons) Paperback – May 1, 2000

been playing for 50 years and all of Jean Marc's book have pulled me into new sonic realms. This guy is the master of "outside" playing forget YouTube just buy this book

Great book to buy, if you want to explore a world out of the pentatonic blues box. I was in a musical rut, and like most I was stuck in the box. However, in I revived this book I dove in a world of a musical deep end finding my new voice through sound.

This book contains some good improvising ideas along with many decent and professional sounding melodic licks.Not for the beginner.Before attempting this book, it would be helpful if the guitarist had some knowledge of the 2-5-1 chord patterns,chord substitutions, and chords with their notes(3 string triads and their inversions through out the guitar neck). Also some basic music theroy and experience in position playing would be helpful.However,any intermediate to advance guitar player who listens to jazz ,and has an interest in playing jazz or jazz-rock should benefit from this book.It is a quality book and will give the guitarist an opportunity to develop professional sounding melodic lines on chords and chord patterns, rather than just always playing scales/modes.

This dude is a master!

Good liks good sound easy to read . Not too hard but deffinitly challengin it s a good one formtrying to improve

Nice collection of licks.

This book attempts to teach you how to construct your own jazz licks using moderate outside to way outside techniques. The 2-5-1 progressions are used,(major,harmonic major,minor and dominant 7th) and 4 examples for each with each example increasing in how far out of the tonal center it migrates before ending in the key.ie. the 1st lick might be largely diatonic but with some passing notes, the second may employ a tritone sub and diatonic extentions, the 3rd may employ triads or arpeggios from other tonalities, the 4th may employ triads from symetrical keys ala Trane Progressions. Because Belkadi is more of a player than a theorist, you get short explanations for each example but with some study a light bulb should go off for you opening up new possibilities for your improvisations. The CD has excellent sound quality as does his guitar tone. 2 minute jam tracks would have been nice because you should be constructing your own licks and practicing them. I highly recommend this for the diligent student and even if you just want to copy his licks because most are a cut above the elevator norm.

This book is a good reference to make your guitar improvisation more melodic and give you more soloing ideas apart from the scales most guitarists use. If you like sophisticated jazzy, outside-inside lines like the ones played by fusion and jazz-rock guitarists like Larry Carlton,Scott Henderson, Lee Ritenour, George Benson etc.. then this is a good book to start with and refer to. There are lots demonstration on jazz soloing techniques like triad substitution, tritone substitution and more through tons of licks that you can use. The only reason why I gave it 4 stars was because I thought the author could have explained in more detail, how he came up with the licks. But then this book is not for absolute beginners on guitar, it is an advantage if you already know some music theory like triads, substitution etc.. This book I think will complement the book Jazz Guitar Improvisation by Fewell published by Berklee College of Music, since it also teaches triadic improvisation on guitar.