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Solo Jazz Guitar Etudes
By Bruce Forman
$24.99
Learn 16 fully transcribed re-imaginings of essential jazz standards!
Solo Jazz Guitar Etudesis more than just a transcription book; featuring 16 hand-picked performances from Bruce’s First Chorus of The Day Instagram series, this book gives you a unique insight into how these performances were created and what went into them.
16 solos to learn in notation and Tab
Tons of authentic jazz vocabulary
Full course eBook in PDF format (98 pages)
Professionally transcribed TAB and notation
HD video and audio examples for every exercise
Bonus 90-min video masterclass
Digital access on all your devices
Optional paperback available
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Ethan
September 26, 2023
Awesome Book!
Bruce Forman is a phenomenal player and his book is filled with great licks to put in your playing. The book has both standard notation and tab. Covers great common harmony that can be applied to many tunes! A must have for a developing/advanced jazz guitarist.
Koji Hori
April 8, 2024
Recommended for guitar players at any levels
I’m absolutely obsessed with Bruce Forman’s playing. His guitar work is both wild and beautiful, delivered with an incredibly swinging feel. This book captures some of his solo performances from his Instagram series, First Chorus of the Day. In it, he breaks down why he played a certain way—both from a music theory perspective and based on how he was feeling at the time.
Jeffrey Askew
October 2, 2023
Fantastic.
Great song selections and the descriptions are an amazing resource for guitarist that want to understand how Bruce approaches improvisation and especially solo guitar playing. Can not recommend this book enough. Thank you.
What you will get 🎸
- Sixteeen solos to learn in notation and Tab
- Tons of authentic jazz vocabulary
- Audio & video of every example
- Bonus 90-minute video masterclass
- GuitarPro Files
If you’re looking to discover jaw-dropping jazz guitar solos that will broaden your mastery of the music and your instrument, Solo Jazz Guitar Etudes is the book for you!
Look Inside
Jazz Standards
INCLUDING:
- Stella by Starlight
- Confirmation
- Someday my Prince Will Come
- Softly as in a Morning Sunrise
- Body and Soul
- I Hear a Rhapsody
- Bill Please
- All the Things You Are
- Tea for Two
- You and the Night and the Music
- Polka Dots and Moonbeams
- 12 o’clock Blues
- Chitlins Con Carne
- Blues For Wes
- Ain’t Misbehavin
- I’m Getting Sentimental Over You.
✨ Bonus content: 90min video masterclass and audio & video of every example.
What Students are Saying
Teri Sulc
October 17, 2023
Explosive New Jazz Guitar Book (Studies) Etudes
Bruce Forman is the embodiment of all the bebop jazz greats he’s played with over his long, illustrious career. I’ve seen them all and I’ve taken lesson from several, living and dead including Bruce. By far he’s the best. Not only is his playing the most brilliant and creative, he has the most loving, teaching heart. His explanations for each of the etudes is an inviting guide to knowing what to look and listen for. His passion for passing on his knowledge shines through every word and note.
Harrison Browning Watts
October 2, 2023
Great Second (…Third, Fourth or Fifth) Course of the Day Bruce Forman!
Having caught, and still enjoying, most of Bruce Forman’s “First Course of the Day” guitar performances, I was/am often left wondering “how did he do that and why?” as in “What were those voicings that just flew by?” and “That chord at the end, wow, what was that!!!???”. Well, welcome this book!
I like the very personal and thorough treatment of sixteen Etudes, each a choice Jazz songbook tune, from more than one perspective: like having the coach, player and referee all weighing in on a play that you’d like to replay albeit in your own way.
Characteristic wit and teaching without pedantry abound. It is a rare and wonderful thing when a great guitar player also contributes generously to help others toward mastery.
December 12, 2023
Shows you how to BeBop right away!
Great Jazz instructional book. Getting GP files with it makes it really Easy!
I’m recommending this book to all my Jazz Guitar Students!
Timothy Patchin
October 1, 2023
Solo Jazz Guitar Etudes
A biblical study for jazz guitar. This is a transcription of Bruce’s first chorus of the day from his instagram posts. They have always been a treasure of jazz guitar “here’s how it’s done” video posts of improvised choruses of well known standards e.g. confirmation, chitlins con carne. Now instead of watching and rewinding his videos he has removed that step and provided the notated transcript of these “first choruses “. Plus, being the teacher that he is, provided a harmonic analysis and play by play of his work. I have a feeling that this is just volume one of several to come. Each etude is months of study into the mind of clearly one of the best jazz guitarists on the planet. Several thousand dollars of individual study in one book. Thanks Bruce
M. Sanders
October 31, 2023
Top Notch, Indeed
Really great course of study Bruce has put out here. Lots of great ideas for improv that you can encorporate into your own playing. The tunes aren’t fake or sound like your playing an excerise, this is real music from the soul. Bruce was a student of Barney Kessel and these studies reflect that. Steal from the master!!!
Michel Bouissiere
February 5, 2025
Amazing book and audio + videos.
Amazing book.
First, even if the 16 arrangements are short, which helps to remember and learn them, they are packed with informations, melodic lines, octaves phrases or chords sequences that are fun and filled with the energy and mastery that Mr. Forman always display. It’s like Oscar Peterson on guitar !
Second, you’ve got an analysis of each tune, performance notes, key moments and editor’s notes that are precious to know what’s going on.
Whatever your level, tons of informations or phrases you’ll have a pleasure to steal and apply.
Can’t wait for Volume 2, and I hope there will be dozens of others !
Bruce Forman
Available in Paperback and PDF
