by
Steve Crowell




Music notation, tab, and chord diagrams are used to show every diatonic scale pattern in all keys. Three studies -- beginning, intermediate and advanced -- are given for each of the 84 Equations.
Dear Advancing Guitarist:
The 84 Equation concept manifested itself through many years of my intensive and caring research. When you see what’s laid out right before your eyes, I think you will be very excited too.
Musical best wishes to all!
STEVE CROWELL
The 84 Jazz Guitar Equations: book, DVD & CD for only $39.95. + 4.95 Priority Mailing*
The long awaited companion to "The 84 Jazz Guitar Equations" system is finally here! Steve's most comprehensive book to date full of lessons, tools, techniques and harmonic devices that expand and exploit the concepts unveiled in "The 84 Jazz Guitar Equations" book. No system available today takes such a comprehensive and easy to apply approach to jazz guitar improvisation.
An Intermediate to Advanced Guitar Method Based on "The 84 Jazz Guitar Equations" System.This exciting 156 page book is the crowning achievement of many years of hard work and research. This is the method book every aspiring guitarist needs to have -- a complete jazz guitar soloing source book! (Attention teachers: This book is perfect to implement into your own teaching program. You'll learn it as you teach it! You and your students will have a long-term step-by-step progressive bedrock system.)



Formulas for Jazz Guitar Improvisation, Book, DVD & CD for only $39.95 + $4.95 Priority Mailing*
ISBN: 978-0-615-23396-3
For over 30 years Steve Crowell has captured guitarists with his direct approach to playing. Now, with the third book in the Jazz Science series, he brings all his skills to bear on another exciting, original adventure in learning the art of jazz guitar improvisation.
While most players learn from a "lick-based" disconnected approach, this book gives a cohesive understanding of the jazz language and its unique application to the guitar. It contains all new material that brings together and expands on the elements shown in The 84 Jazz Guitar Equations, and Formulas For Jazz Guitar Improvisation. This book is especially valuable for those without a lot of practice time. Just 20 minutes a day spent on the 28 high-maintenance exercises will keep chops razor sharp.




Part one starts out with 28 short, concise warm-up exercises using the "one-six-two-five" progression. These give a summary of virtually every important jazz technique and sound. Designed to build powerful chops, they can be implemented into your playing as intros, endings and turnarounds. Combine, connect and interchange them to create an endless variety of ideas. The DVD takes you through each exercise and shows how to practice them.
Part two shows an entire fingering system for the Jazz Minor scale. There is also a complete overview of chromatics and how to apply them to soloing. No more vague guesswork; this section shows how to have complete control.
Part three features 17 solo studies based on popular chord progressions similar to Solar, How High The Moon, A Foggy Day, Autumn Leaves, Stella By Starlight, Sweet Georgia Brown, I've Got Rhythm, Summertime, and two Blues solos. These utilize all of the techniques from the previous two sections.
On the DVD Steve takes you through each solo, explaining the theory of how everything works. You can use Jazz Guitar Power Soloing along with The 84 Jazz Guitar Equations for analysis, or just by itself.
79 page book, includes a CD -- 20 tracks with all of the solos performed as written, plus rhythm backing tracks. Also a 48 minute instructional DVD......39.95. + $4.95 Priority Mailing*




DAVID ALZOFON, former editor for Guitar Player magazine.
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I remember the seeds of the "Jazz Science" project from my first encounter with Steve Crowell, at his Redwoods Seminar in 2005. The 3 notes per string scales were presented at that time and, I have to admit, they seemed awkward then. Believe me, they don't now.
When Steve started talking about the 84 Equations book I recall his excitement. When the book finally unfolded it proved to be the "Jazz
Dictionary" that became the basis for the following books in the series.
As an automotive engineer and designer, I liked the geometric precision of the "system." As a guitarist, I started to understand the "musical gold mine" that his work represented. No more searching for numerous
scale forms, everything - scales, arpeggios - was contained in one "system." And, as Steve has said on numerous occasions, they are the perfect warm-up to start your musical day. This was not a collection of scales, this was a fretboard "system" that seamlessly connects the entire
fretboard.
The next book in the series, Formulas for Jazz Guitar Improvisation, was the logical extension of the 84 Equations manual. This proved to be an excellent "cookbook" of musical ideas based on the 84 Equations "system."
Here was a practical book full of musical ideas, intros/endings and
meaningful solos (and I mean "full," I'm still working through it!).
The latest book, Jazz Guitar Power Soloing, arrived just a few weeks ago, complete with CD and DVD. I think the cream rose to the top on this one and in reality it shows the logic and playability of the "system." I really like and appreciate the examples in the latest book. They speak to
me musically and, although not "easy" to play, are rewarding, like old friends. My goal now is to do justice to this wonderful musical "system," and spread the word here in faraway Istanbul, Turkey.
GLENN BETCHER
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Steve,
Thanks for all your efforts. To tell the truth, I've had a few great teachers (Irving Ashby, John Collins, Ronny Lee, et al) in my time and none compare to what you have done with your courses and its content. maybe I didn’t get it in my youth at the time, but now that I'm older and wiser and have gone through most of your material I've renewed my interest and dedication. I do have your SDM (lesson course) which I bought the beginning of the year and was quite pleased with the results; but then I bought your 84 Equations and things just fell in place. The lessons are easy to understand and the outcome is phenomenal...I want to say thanks again and I'm looking forward to much more of your work.
Sincerely,
JOHN LENNOX