Greg Fishman

Hip Licks For Guitar

Hip Licks for Guitar is designed to help guitarists develop fluency in the jazz language by providing mainstream jazz vocabulary (swing/bop/post-bop) that nails the changes and lays great.

Think of Hip Licks for Guitar as a musical reference book, like a dictionary of great licks in all twelve keys, available when you need it. You can open the book to any page and just start playing.

Special Features of Hip Licks for Guitar by Greg Fishman, featuring guitarist, Mike Allemana:

- Includes TAB with Mike's fingerings for the licks.

- 168 Hip Licks - Each lick is unique and customized for each key. The C7 lick is different than the B7 lick, which is different than the Bb7 lick, etc.

- Slow Tempo and Fast Tempo Play-Along CDs are Included 2 Guitar CDs featuring master guitarist Mike Allemana playing the licks at slow & fast tempos PLUS: 2 Tenor CDs featuring author Greg Fishman playing the licks on tenor saxophone at slow & fast tempos, providing over four hours of play-along tracks.

- Hip Licks Nail the Most Popular Chord Progressions:
- Major 7th, Dominant 7th, Dominant 7b9, Minor 7th, Minor 7b5, and Diminished 7th and Augmented 7th Chords
- ii-7 / V7 / I Major (two and four-measure phrases)
- ii-7b5 / V7b9 / i Minor (two and four-measure phrases)
- Parallel Major to Minor Progressions
- ii- ii-Maj7 / ii-7 V7 / I Maj7 (ii-7 / V7 / I Maj7 with moving 7ths)

- Modular Design - The licks are self-contained, easily taken out of the book to be used in a wide variety of songs.

- Interactive Call and Response Format, perfect for ear-training and developing your musical memory. Each lick is played twice in a row on the Play-Along CDs, so you can hear the lick and then immediately play along. twelve keys.

- Twelve Key Approach - Every CD track takes you through all twelve keys.

- Rhythm-Section-Only Tracks let you experiment with your own variations on the licks and improvise over a wide variety of harmonic settings. These tracks are also excellent backgrounds for practicing all of your chords and scales.

- Technique Builder - Use Hip Licks for Guitar as part of your daily practice routine to dramatically increase your technical command of the guitar.