Chords for Jazz Guitar: The Complete Guide to Comping, Chord Melody and Chord Soloing

Chords for Jazz Guitar: The Complete Guide to Comping, Chord Melody and Chord Soloing by author Charlton Johnson is a guitar educational book with online audio devoted to the language and application of jazz chords across the fretboard. Designed for guitarists interested in jazz harmony, it covers comping, chord melody, chord soloing, voicings, progressions, jazz chord theory, and voice leading in one focused resource.

The book is written for guitar and presented without tablature. Purchase includes a unique code providing online access to 98 full-band demonstration tracks for streaming or download. The accompanying PLAYBACK+ audio player allows listeners to slow the audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan the sound left or right, making it possible to examine musical passages closely and work with the demonstrations in a flexible practice setting.

By connecting chord theory with practical areas such as comping, melodic chord playing, solo guitar textures, and voice leading, the book offers a way to explore how individual voicings can become part of a larger musical vocabulary. Guitarists can use the material to study chord movement across the fretboard, practice harmonic concepts in varied styles and progressions, and prepare ideas for performance. The full-band demonstrations add musical context to the printed material, helping connect harmonic concepts with the sound and movement of jazz performance while supporting focused learning and continued practice.

This book and online audio combination brings printed study material and full-band listening examples into a single jazz guitar resource. It can serve as a practical addition to a guitarist's music library for learning, practice, performance preparation, or as a thoughtful gift for someone interested in jazz guitar harmony, comping, chord melody, and chord soloing.