20 Jazz Licks: Advanced

Luca Mantovanelli offers up a platter of jazz goodness with 20 licks that will tighten your playing, and help you reach top shelf ideas rich in interest and colour.

In this finger twisting collection, feast on the delights of six famous standards which have helped shape not only the world of jazz, but music as we know and love it. In “Blues”, “Lady Bird”, “All The Things You Are”, “Donna Lee”, “Impressions” and perhaps most famous of all, “Giant Steps” you have a canvas with which to explore the guitar playing intricacies placed in front of you.

Using his vast experience and knowledge, Luca covers a myriad of jazz staples in a way that is unique within the mind-bending progressions at hand. You’ll explore outside lines, and the tension filled vibes of the superlocrian mode. There’s the more resolved sounding mixolydian and dorian, a cascade of chromatics and arpeggios, and a full range of ascending and descending lines that cover the fretboard in a way that shines a spotlight on how some of the greats approach the genre.

To bring clarity to the jazz madness, Luca has provided slow versions of each lick, and an in-depth PDF guide that clearly lays out the theory behind them.

This release includes 20 licks played fast and slow, six backings, six slow backings, an extra slow “Blues” backing, all of which are recorded by live musicians. Also includes an in-depth PDF study guide and full tab/notation in both PDF and GP formats.

Add organic fluidity to your playing and tap into new ideas based on classic concepts. A jazz licks collection that bends, breaks, and rewrites the rules at the same time.

Backings musicians: Davide Mantovanelli (drums), Luca Mantovanelli (guitar and keyboard) and Massimo Gaudiano (bass)