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Jimmy Bruno has played guitar with some of the all time greats, including Frank Sinatra, Barbara Streisand and Elvis Presley. He makes even the most daunting techniques accessible to anyone who wants to learn. Jimmy covers ii/V/I progressions, changing chord colors, training hands and ears to work together, natural picking techniques, adding bass lines to chords and much more. No nonsense—just great jazz guitar! WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY WOODY MANN Jazz and blues guitarist Woody Mann learned from the legendary Rev. Gary Davis and then played and recorded with Son House, Bukka White and John Fahey. He has performed throughout the world, recorded over a dozen CDs, and is an internationally renowned guitar teacher. YOU’LL NEVER MISS A NOTE! _ You see the music and the tablature on screen as it’s being played! _ All right- and left-hand techniques are shown in close up and with helpful split-screen effects to make learning easy _ Slow motion segments with standard pitch sound _ Artist biography _ Selected discography _ Suggested listening _ Booklet with music examples included

"The two tapes and 45-page booklet that makeup No Nonsense Jazz Guitar ($49.95) contain so much music theory, you could spend years absorbing it all. Fortunately, Bruno teaches a lot of great shortcuts that help you put the theory into practice. He covers scale shapes, bass lines, turn-arounds, passing tones, and more-all with a relaxed, regular-guy vibe."
- Matt Blackett Guitar Player Magazine 2-VIDEO BOX SET * LEVEL 2-4

No Nonsense Jazz Guitar" features: Jimmy Bruno, after years of playing with the likes of Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Barbara Streisand, Buddy Rich and more, has taken a permanent place as one of the Jazz World's top young guitarists. He has lightning fast chops but never substitutes speed for melodic content. On these videos, Jimmy shares valuable guitar knowledge he has garnered over years of experience with sincere enthusiasm and his infectious sense of humor. He covers: his approach to ii/V/I progrssions, understanding arpeggios, fingerings, visualizing scales, traiing hands & ears to work together, using scales against different chords, working with notes outside the scale, cisualizing the guitar as a piano, the note of resolution, altered dominant possibilities, pedal patterns, melodic minor scale, natural picking techniques, breaking the up and down picking habit, adding bass lines to chords, unique turnarounds, melodic cells and an introduction to 7 string guitar. Jimmy masterfully reduces these difficult topics into terms that any student of jazz guitar can easily utilize. This 2-volume video could also be titled "Everything you wanted to know about Jazz guitar but were afraid to ask" or maybe "This video and a fake book are all you'll ever need". Seriously, Jimmy has managed to cover all the fundamentals of playing the instrument in this video. Not only that, his method of learning scale and chord fingerings are so simple as to be innovative. Throughout, his easy conversational style and the excellent videography make this video a joy to watch. LEVEL 3