DVD 1: Easy Arrangements for Intermediate Players for Acoustic Guitar-A musician and popular writer for Acoustic Guitar magazine and other publications Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers breaks down seven iconic Grateful Dead songs at a very user-friendly pace.He teaches the rhythms lead lines licks and chords for authentic-sounding acoustic renditions of: Friend of the Devil • Black Peter • Brokedown Palace • Fire on the Mountain • New Speedway Boogie • Cassidy and Stella Blue.LEVEL 3 • INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB .PDF • 2 HOURS

Dave explains his approach to jazz improvisation with musical examples that he himself uses, learned from years of playing with the greats - after learning how to play jazz from listening to players such as Grant Green, Wes Montgomery and Pat Martino. Explains the minor sub approach using minor scales to play over dominant seventh chords, and then includes several solos over often-played jazz standards, using this approach. Also described are the use of the blues and pentatonic scales as well as be-bop ideas, the melodic minor scale, and whole-tone and diminished scales and patterns. Hanon-type warm up exercises and Dave's own fingerings shown in tab are also described. Perfect for intermediate-to-more advanced players, Dave's concise way of explaining his approach will open up the students to developing their own improvisational ideas. Dave plays the examples and solos on the companion CD including tracks with a rhythm only section for student play-along.

With Online Audio-Wes Montgomery is considered by many as one of the great pioneers of Jazz Guitar. Following in the footsteps of Django Reinhardt and Charlie Christian his unique playing style and unmistakable sound have earned him aplace in Jazz history influencing many contemporary musicians heard today. This Essential Jazz Lines title offers in-depth explanations into Montgomery?s improvisational techniques as well as his approach todifferent chord progressions found in many Jazz standards. The accompanying audio includes several play-along tracks featuring the chord progressions discussed in the book giving the student an opportunity to improvise and honein on Montgomery?s sound. For guitarists of an intermediate skill level this title offers a great opportunity to instil some jazz ornamentation into their improvisational arsenal.   All lessons provided in tablature and musical notation Audio available online The Essential Jazz Lines series features other artists such as John Coltrane Charlie Parker and Cannonball Adderley

Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738) was the most famous Irish composer of his time. His memorable melodies influenced both by European classical music and by ancient Gaelic harp traditions have remained popular through the centuries and lend themselves especially well to fingerstyle guitar. The arrangements in this volume are of intermediate difficulty and are a pleasure to play for guitarists of almost any skill level. There are a few well-known tunes here but most of the arrangements are O'Carolan 's lesser known works though they rank with his best music.

Par SERRANO JUAN. The legendary flamenco guitarist and best-selling Mel Bay Publications author, Juan Serrano, is well-known for his sound recordings, transcriptions of his music, and technical methods for flamenco guitar. Now the music that formed his technical repertory and was the musical foundation given to his by his father, Antonio el del Lunar, (guitarist for all the flamenco singers of his time including Pastora Pavon-Nina de los Peines) is at your fingertips in this book that contains completely unreleased flamenco puro that is the foundation of one of the world's leading guitarists. These falsetas or variations on flamenco forms (toques) are graded so they are valuable for beginners, intermediate, advanced, and professional flamenco guitarists--or for classical guitarists that want to learn flamenco. This book is a repertoire book that is a valuable supplement to other Juan Serrano books on Mel Bay, such as Flamenco Guitar: Basic Techniques, or The Flamenco/Classical Tradition: A Technical Guitar Method and Introduction to music. This new book includes standard notation and guitar tablature. This repertoire allows students to solidify right-hand arpeggios, rasgueados, and picados - and left-hand techniques such as ligados and apagados, while learning valuable repertoire that can be used by the concert artist. / Niveau : Tous Niveaux / Flamenco - Solos / Recueil / Guitare Classique

Intermediate/Advanced. The Still Got The Blues album sealed Gary Moore's reputation as a world class Blues player upon its release in 1990. Although his work with Thin Lizzy (including the milestone Parisienne Walkways) had established Moore as a great rock guitarist, it is this album that boasts some of his most accomplished solos and stomping shuffle-based riffs.All Your Love - As The Years Go Passing By - King Of The Blues - Midnight Blues - Moving On - Oh, Pretty Woman - Still Got The Blues - Texas Strut - That Kind Of Woman - Too Tired - Walking By Myself

This superb DVD is a new and unique way to have fun study and jam all at the same time. The DVD contains three top quality backing tracks and can be approached in two ways first you can 'JAM' with the tracks flying solo experimenting with different ideas licks and solos. Alternatively you can trade solos with Sam drawing inspiration from the ideas and techniques used in his solos.Each track has three performances from Sam working across three levels of difficulty. Although the solos are improvised he has taken care to go for a basic intermediate and advanced level for each track. All the solos are transcribed and are available in PDF form along with the lessons.On screen graphics with chords and scales are provided when it's your turn to jam.This tutorial is an exciting way to interact with Sam while learning new licks and phrases performed in a real musical environment. This DVD is designed to be an enjoyable musical experience for everyone. Whether your style you will find this tutorial fun and inspiring. Enjoy!Features• 3 unique backing tracks• Interactive jamming• On screen scale diagrams• Chord charts• Transcriptions of 27 solos• Technique lessons

A souvenir album containing the Vocal selections from Lionel Bart's magnificant musical based on Charles Dicken's Oliver Twist. With a story synopsis stills from the film and all the songs in the motion picture arranged for piano and voice with full lyrics and chord symbols this is a fantastic edition. Suitable for intermediate standard pianists.

Par WILKINS JACK. It is with great pleasure that we here at Mel Bay Publications, Inc. offer this project by guitar legend Jack Wilkins. Jack's skills as a session player, jazz player and all around guitar virtuoso have been honed by playing countless gigs and recording sessions. This book compiles many of Jack's lessons originally written for 'Just Jazz Guitar” magazine. Subjects including comping, harmonization, and single-note soloing in the jazz setting are covered in this text by one of the world's greatest…so practice hard. This material is tried and tested and will make you a better player. The difficulty is intermediate to advanced. / Niveau : Intermédiaire à Avancé / Jazz - Reference / Recueil / Guitare

This beginning guitar method is written for aspiring classical or flamenco guitarists who want to learn how to read music up to the intermediate level. Music from the Spanish tradition such as Romanza Pica-Pica El Vito Café delas Chinitas Perfid a La Virgen de la Macarena and flamenco music of Juan Serrano provides a technical and musical foundation that improves facility in playing scales arpeggios tremelo and rasgueado. Tablature is notincluded as the one of the primary aims of this book is to improve note reading and the comprehension of the fundamental elements of music. Performances of all musical examples are available online that includes one performance attempo for each of the more than 230 musical examples. Short repertoire pieces from Gaspar Sanz Dionisio Aguado Fernando Sor Mauro Guiliani Ferdinand Carulli and Mateo Carcassi are included at the end of the book and arerepertoire studies that will prepare guitarists for further study in classical and/or flamenco guitar.

The Justinguitar Pop Songbook is the latest addition to Justin Sandercoe's series of guitar songbooks following on from his hugely successful Justinguitar Beginners Songbook andJustinguitar Beginner's Guitar Course.The Justinguitar Pop Songbook is for beginner-intermediate guitar players who are looking to improve their playing and increase their pop repertoire. Songsare arranged by difficulty with introductory notes scales and chord shapes provided for each difficulty level.Much more than just a songbook this book contains valuable tips and tutorials that will help you with everyaspect of your playing.

Ultimate Reggae: 42 Of The Best contains 42 of your favourite reggae hits including Get Up Stand Up I Need a Roof Legalize It Rivers of Babylon Uptown Top Ranking Try Jah Love and many more. Ultimate Reggae: 42 Of The Best has been arranged for Piano Vocal and Guitar at Intermediate to Advanced Level.

Stoke's favourite son indulges his fascination for the Rat-Pack era with fifteen golden oldies from the likes of Sinatra Cole Porter Dean Martin and Nat King Cole. Arranged at intermediate standard for piano and voice with guitar chord boxes.

Media Type : Book/CD Set Level : Beginning-Intermediate Musical Genre : All Styles Series : Getting Into Number of pages : 104 Getting Into Guitar Styles is the guitarist's guide to playing different musical styles. The styles that are covered include Blues, Rock, Country, Funk, R & B, Latin, Reggae, Fingerstyle, and Classical as well as different styles of Jazz such as Traditional Jazz, Contemporary Jazz, and Fusion. The musical elements and techniques that are used in different styles of music are looked at. The book not only looks at and demonstrates different musical styles, but in the process it shows the practical application of scales and other musical elements. Many of the examples on the companion CD are played with the written guitar part and also without the written part so you can play the written part with the rhythm tracks or improvise your own part. The book has standard notation and tablature as well as fingerboard diagrams. The companion audio CD is included.

The House of Blues and producers of The Rock House Method join together to bring you this accelerated electric guitar course designed to take you from beginner to intermediate player in no time.The instruction with world renowned guitarist John McCarthy takes you step-by-step through the basics. You start by learning the parts of the guitar proper hand position tuning essential chords and scales lead patterns practice tips rhythm techniques and exercises to build hand coordination.You then move onto advanced lead guitar techniques like hammer-ons pull-offs bending and complete rhythm progressions. This comprehensive course will get you ready to play in yourown band.This expanded edition features:redesigned packagingupdated and revised lessons8 new pages of lessons addedall audio tracks now available as downloadand a PDF digital edition for portable devices when the product gets registered