Robben Ford Discussion

[RonM]

To anyone who has the Mickey Baker book 1, is there any TAB notation at all or is it strictly sheet music notation?

[roadwarriorfortheblues]

I have "Mickey Baker's Jazz Guitar (new! completely revised)" edition, distributed by Music Sales Limited. The first 20 lessons work with chords.

There is NO Tab notation. When he gets into using Arpeggios (beginning in Lesson 8 ), he uses standard notation. I'm not embarrassed to say I've tried, and I can't get beyond the 26 chords in Lesson 1.
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[frank0936]

I'm surprised that Robben got through it. He says he doesn't read music very well now and never did. Maybe he mainly used the chord section, too.
Frank
(there's still hope for me)

[AlChuck]

I'm pretty sure Robben means the chord part of the book is what he got through.

[henkholland]

Doesn't Robben say that you have to follow your own path and try the things that really fit? "Don't listen to guitar-players", Robben once said during one of his Clinics" Also for me it is hard to get to the end of this book. But some days I try it again.
Henk

[Leftbender]

The chord forms in the first book are specially ment for a certain way of playing. This also goes for the second book where the chord forms are very hard to learn. I think these books must have been very popular in the late 50's and early 60'. But there is nothing magical to them. It's is just one methode to learn to play jazz in a certain fashion. Sometimes you can hear the influence in Robben's playing. For instance his arrangements of "I Ain't Got Nothing But The Blues" and Muddy Waters's "I Love The Life I Live" are pretty much based on the chord forms he learned from the first book.
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