Create Great Riffs and Licks by Applying Full-Contact Funk Techniques to Your Favorite 6-String-This master class for slap guitarists covers everything from the very basics of slapping and popping to harmonics node spanking rhythmic groupings full-contact chord progressions and more. Solo Slap Guitar belongs to an official series from the Musicians Institute Southern California's renowned music school. The institute boasts some of the finest musicians in the world and here they share their vast knowledge and experience with you. This book was written by Jude Gold guitarist journalist and former director of the Musicians Institute Guitar program. This book includes access to video lessons for every chapter andexamples online as well as examples in standard notation and tablature.

Bobby Gabriele presents a guide for drummers that contians everything a working or perfoming drummer needs to read! This Musicians Institute Private Lessons edition covers common symbols and musical shorthand sectionfigures and ensemble figures accents set-up ideas and embellishment and swing big band and other styles. The Accompanying CD includes 16 full demonstration examples.

In this Musicians Institute Private Lessons edition David Keif creates the ultimate reference of Arpeggios for Bass guitar. His step-by-step approach is comprehensive covering triads and 7th chord arpeggios withfretboard patterns spanning the entire 4-string neck. This informative guide also includes fretboard diagrams and more.

Bruce Buckingham teaches you the necessary Guitar Basics in this Musicians Institute Private Lessons book and CD package. With instruction on chords scales strumming rhythm playing the blues and more. Includes practice tips chord charts songs and progressions. Essential aspects for learning acoustic or electric guitar. CD features demo tracks and examples.

This Musicians Institute Private Lessons book and CD pack is a fun effective and innovative tool for improving players' chops. Working The Inner Clock For Drumset provides a practical set of rhythmic studies for developing a drummer's time and feel. The CD includes 16 complete play-along tracks with lessons covering rock Motown funk shuffle calypso big band fusion Latin and other grooves. The book includes complete charts with instructional advice and sample groove and fill ideas as well as tips on improving ensemble reading and technique.

In this Musicians Institute Private Lessons edition Jamie Findlay teaches both harp and natural harmonics and demonstrates how to combine harmonics with hammers & pulls. An accompanying CD providesexamples and demonstrations to help you get the very best from each idea. Learn the brilliant and inspirational guitar style of Lenny Breau Ted Greene Ralph Towner with this terrific package.

This book will enable you to develop the necessary co-ordination with which to play in a variety of Brazilian musical styles. By combining ostinatos with a series of progressive co-ordination studies it provides challengingmaterial from drummers at all levels. The accompanying CD contains demo and play-along tracks in the popular Bossa Nova Samba Baiao and Partido styles which are often played in 'Latin Jazz' settings. Practising with theplay=along track will help you get the feel of the rhythmic style and also help you learn to lock in with other musicians.

Developing a Professional Career in the Music Industry-Getting ahead in the music industry can be incredibly difficult. No matter how talented you are it seems every musician has to be wise to the rules of the game if they are going to get their music heard. Going Pro is divided into eleven chapters dealing with some of the most important topics of the music industry.

Peter Daneff is a pianist composer arranger and teacher at the Musician's Institue in Hollywood. His music has a mixture of influences including Latin jazz and Middle Eastern styles. Guitar Hanon is a colection of 51fretboard exercises designed to dramatically improve strength and independence of the fingering hand and speed and coordination of the picking hand. Many of the exercises contain different fingerings and can be played ondifferent string sets in different positions or across the whole fretboard. The exercises are perfect for guitarists of all standards from beginners to professionals and will benefit guitarists of all musical genres sincethey contain Arabic Greek Persian African flamenco salsa and classical as well as jazz and blues influences. The book contains diatonic and chromatic scale exercises as well as major minor dominant and half-diminishedseventh arpeggio based exercises. Whole tones and diminished arpeggios are also covered.