This book is not for beginners. It is for guitarist's that have worked through Beginning Jazz Guitar and Intermediate Jazz Guitar, or have received the same sort of information elsewhere. To get the most out of this book you should be proficient with the pentatonic scales, blues scales, the major scales, diatonic harmony and chord scales, transposition, diatonic arpeggios, neighbour tones, triads, licks and formulas for extended and altered chords.