Cole Davis: Low Standards - A Complete Guide to Playing Your Favorite Jazz Standards

About the Book I created this e-book because most “standards” books are needlessly complicated. They often contain solos that are excruciating to play, analysis that is utterly mind-numbing to get through, and a level of pretentiousness that further instills the crippling self-doubt all musicians seem to have. All of the solos in this PDF are playable at any level. 99% of this book can be played in half position. There’s no technical achievement here. It’s just a collection of solos and bass lines designed to expand your harmonic vocabulary. I recommend playing everything as slowly as possible to allow the extensions to enter your ears and your mind instead of breezing through everything in a typical jazz student fashion. There’s a lot of depth and a lot of magic in the harmonic extensions, for example, a #5 on a dominant chord, which you can internalize by playing through the exercises at a tempo that enables you to really hear everything. The other thing I considered when making thi