Complete Jerry Hahn Method for Jazz Guitar Kindle Edition

Great book - A guitar bible.A bible for anyone who wants a real book. There is lots of explanation about how/why modes/scales/chords work the way they do, although I found it lacking at time. The background theoretical explanations are head and shoulders above some of the guitar books out there that make you wonder if the author knows how to read anything other than tab.My only complaint is the notation inconsistencies that plague Jazz guitarists. For example, a flat 5 minor 7th chord is what everyone else refers to as half diminished. Just call it a half diminished chord. Several parts in the book have the incorrect note written for the key signature - for example, a Dsharp in place of an E flat. Enharmonically the same, but it's harder to see the intervals in, say, a sharp 9 chord if you write it as a flat 10 chord.Additionally, it would be great if there was some more explanation regarding why a certain mode, scale etc pairs well with certain progressions within certain contexts.

No better book to learn the guitar neck from.

Great!

I'm afraid that I can't quite agree with the other reviewers on this. Yes, there is useful information in this publication, and you can take away skills from it, but I'll cite one deficiency that for me was crippling. The last part of the book (which is about single line improvisation) emphasizes a multitude of rules that will paralyze you if you try to consciously apply them all. I found the same problem with David Baker's "How to Play Bebop" Vol. I. Improvisation takes place at a pace that practically insures you won't be able to formulate a solo based on anything except sound, and trying to apply numerous rules on the fly will leave you dysfunctional. So, why do I have the book? Well, I used to follow Jerry Hahn's columns in Guitar Player magazine back in the Seventies, and much of that material is collected in his method. I could follow it, and I took away that which was useful to me, but I would like to suggest you look up "Jazz Guitar Fundamental Changes" by Joseph Alexander. He makes just ONE rule. I found his approach to be simple, uncomplicated, and productive.