Joe Pass Guitar Style: Learn the Sound of Modern Harmony & Melody Paperback – February 1, 1987

learn as much as you can, every page is well worth the studying if you plan on getting into jazz guitar.10/10

Excellent book.I'm always reading a guitar book. I take my time. One book may take me a year, but I read it slowly and as a result I absorb everything.My favorite author for guitar technique and theory is Joseph Alexander. This book was recommended by Jens Larson. He is an excellent jazz guitarist and his website has lots of great useful resources.So far I'm finding this book to be a wealth of knowledge.Take your time, work through it slowly, and add it to your music bookshelf. It will be an excellent reference for all players.

Arrived timely and as described! Good purchase!

There is an amazing amount of usable info on each page of this book - much more so than the average book. The information is presented in a way that is sort of pre-digested for the playing professional so that the concepts are USABLE in real time for real time improvisation. I have more than 300 jazz and guitar books - this is the one for the desert island.

This is a book with so much knowledge and brilliance it could take you 30 years to come close to actually grasping these ideas and have them all become a part of your vocabulary. You can start wherever you would like. Theres great excercises and licks . You must sight read well!

This book is like a 4 year degree and is like private lessons with one if the Greatest Jazz Guitarist of our time and is immortalized sharing his amazing talent. The information and knowledge gained from studying this and his other books are Timeless.

Plus: It gives me insight into the mind of a musical genius.Minus: Musical genius is apparently beyond me.When I listen to Joe play, I am so awed by his abilities that it temporarily makes me feel compelled to throw all my guitars off a very tall structure and I have been playing for exactly 50 years. I'm hoping to understand and partially master the techniques in this book before I kick the bucket, I just need to live another 65 years.Stupidly, I bought the non CD version. Now I have to get the CD version.

Joe Pass - a jazz guitarist of genius, is an inspiration for everyone who wants to approach music improvisation in a simple and open manner. His style of teaching and improvising is free of chains and cliches that are being spread all over the place in music departments today. This is what I love about him, and his book reflects this lightness and freedom.