Martin Taylor’s Advanced Jazz Guitar Licks Phrasebook

If you’re looking for the most direct pathway to beautiful jazz guitar soloing – here it is!

Get ready to master jazz guitar with over 130 jazz guitar licks carefully transcribed from Martin Taylor’s secret personal repertoire. 

• Ever had to solo on a new jazz tune and wondered where to start?
• Want to build a vocabulary of authentic jazz guitar licks that work perfectly, every single time?
• Would you like to play effortless jazz guitar solos?

We all know that guitarists love theory, but what if there was an alternative to memorising complex scales and formulas?

What if there was a way to cut right to the chase and play authentic jazz guitar without getting tied in mental knots?

When you learned to speak, you weren’t handed a dictionary and a grammar textbook, were you?

You learnt your language by copying the words of your parents – gradually discovering their context and applying them on your own.

And because music is a language like any other…  learning to speak it is all about copying the right sounds.

So, it’s time to throw away the complex theory books and master the actual guitar licks played by a jazz virtuoso.

Just like any good phrase book, Martin Taylor’s Advanced Jazz Guitar Licks are carefully organised into vocabulary that fits the most common jazz soloing situations – from the shifting major and minor ii V’s of Autumn Leaves, to the cycling dominants and turnarounds of Rhythm Changes. Along with static Dorian licks to tackle vamps like So What and Impressions you’ll learn the perfect guitar licks for these essential jazz sequences:

• Major ii V I to minor ii V i progression
• Minor ii V i progression
• The I vi ii V (Rhythm Changes) sequence