Joe Beck is one of contemporary jazz guitar's most important practitioners, and his unique approach to chords and their theory is captured on this video for all to utilize. You'll learn about chord configuration and structure, common tones, common melodies, chord soloing, envisioning intervals, substitutions, "hearing" the chord before you play it, relationships of bassnotes to chords, close chord relationships, bassline theory, contrary motion chords and licks, learning to play all inversions of chords, harmonizing with chords, and various guitar chord "acrobatics", including harmonic "raking". This is truly a master lesson with with one of the best, and not to be missed by any true jazz guitar fan.

Inspired by a near-mythic event on the wild Florida frontier at the turn of the 20th century, Shadow Country re-imagines the legend of the inspired Everglades sugar planter and notorious outlaw E. J. Watson, who drives himself relentlessly toward his own violent end at the hands of neighbors who mostly admired him, in a killing that obsessed his favorite son. Shadow Country transverses strange landscapes inhabited by Americans of every provenance and color, including the black and Indian inheritors of archaic racism that "still casts its shadow over the nation."

Over 60 original compositions transcribed and edited by Pascal Wetzel. Leadsheets generally follow the latest recording to show the evolution of the tune and maturation of the artist. Counterlines, codas, chord extensions and chord changes for improvisation are included. Added features are lyric versions of 10 tunes, 3 essays about Bill Evans' life and music, photographs, and discography. Includes: Fudgesickle Built for Four * Interplay * Laurie * My Bells * Orbit * Song for Helen * Time Remembered * Turn Out the Stars * Very Early * Waltz for Debby * and more.