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This book is designed to prepare the aspiring Jazz Guitarist to arrange and improvise in a jazz style. Playing by ear is stressed from the very first exercise. You will learn 12-bar blues 8-bar blues and standards as well ashow to create fill-ins improvise develop ideas play comping chords develop a walking bass line and more.Scales chords and arpeggios for the development of technical skills ear training and fingerboard knowledgecover the niter fingerboard and in all keys. You will learn how to develop a tune in a logical manner form the basic tune to a full-blown performance arrangement. In notation and tablature.The companion onlinerecording contains all of the solos in the book (but not the etudes). The tracks are split with solo on the right channel and accompaniment on the left and the count is given so that you can play along. The pieces are designed todevelop technique as well as musicianship. Includes access to online audio.

This Mandolin edition includes the same 16 tunes found in Steve Kaufman's out-of-print Twin Pickin' flatpicking Guitar book soon to be available as Blazing Solos for Flatpicking Guitar for One Player or More.The tunes in both editions are in the same keys so the books can serve as a foundation for fabulous twin-picking jam sessions in which either guitarists or mandolinists can take the lead and harmony parts. In addition tothe tunes Kaufman includes performance notes guidelines for reading standard notation and tab plus his take on the harmonization process. A play-along audio with three tracks for each tune (Lead Harmony and Lead andHarmony) completes the package. Access to online audio is also included.

World-renowned tresero (tres player) Nelson Gonzalez explains tuning and playing of the Cuban tres guitar offering tips for beginning to advanced players. As the instrument???s name implies the tres has three courses of double ortriple strings and is used both as a lead and an accompaniment instrument. The author thoughtfully includes instructions for converting a normal 6-string guitar to a tres guitar offering suggestions for appropriate string gauges. This may be the first book of its kind published outside of Cuba. The method contains Latin folksongs arranged for the beginning tres player plus examples of repeated often syncopated underlying vamps called montunos. Thebook also presents all principal chords and scale patterns plus notation fundamentals- all beautifully illustrated with clear photos diagrams and explanations. Written in standard notation only. Nelson Gonzalez is singularlyqualified to write this book. Known in Latin music circles as the ???Ambassador of the Cuban Tres Guitar??? he has toured or recorded with a virtual Who???s Who of Latin stars not to mention his own band Son Mudano. His tres masteryis featured on dozens of recordings with such artists as Tito Puente Gloria Estefan Andy Garcia Paul Simon and Marc Anthony to name only a few.

In Contemporary Music Bk/2Cd-This course examines the infusion of traditional Afro-Latin and especially Afro-Cuban concepts into contemporary Western music. Upon completion of this book you will have mastered many new skills that will help you become a moreaccomplished percussionist and more importantly a more complete musician. By exploring the role of percussion in traditional Afro-Cuban music you will understand the important contribution drums make towards a complete musicalpiece and that a drum is not merely a rhythmic placeholder but truly a musical instrument worthy of recognition. While this book focuses primarily on hand percussion its basic principals are also applied to the drum kit. Thereis no standard notation in this book; rather the rhythms are illustrated with easily understood charts based on counting out subdivided beats. Two companion CDs offer audio examples of all major points.

Jack Wilkins presents this collection of Jazz etudes with accompanying audio providing students a fun and effective way to learn to play Jazz style Blues lines.The online audio tracks provide a professionalrhythm section (Piano Bass Drums) to play along with plus recordings of professional Jazz musicians playing each etude. The recordings help to provide a model for the student's stylistic development and an opportunity to playwith a great band! Each of the 12 etudes provides a new challenge to master. Includes access to online audio.

In Comping Standards For Jazz Guitar renowned Guitar guru and author Jim Ferguson helps you to take your playing to the next level.Using common jazz chord progressions this book takes youthrough three primary comping approaches: straight-four moving bass lines and combo variants. In the process you'll learn numerous chord voicings ways to organize them and a wide variety of dynamic rhythmic figures used injazz.Other highlights include the use of guides and pivots chord substitution mastering rootless chords playing with a pianist inverting partial harmonic structures Latin comping chord scales handling modal tunes andmixing voicings.The highly detailed music examples cover most of the common jazz keys and the material comes to life on the accompanying 17-track CD.The pieces featured in Comping Standards For JazzGuitar are in both standard notation and tablature.Watch a preview of Comping Standards For Jazz Guitar:

Here is a collection of insightful interviews with many of the most prominent figures in today's guitar world. Presents 25 articles selected from Charles Chapman's extensive work as a music journalist including legends such asJohnny Smith Tim May Martin Taylor John Abercrombie George Benson John Scofield and Howard Alden. An interview with renowed luthier Robert Benedetto is included as an added bonus. This book illustrates the passion theseguitarists have for their art the respect they have for music and one other and their desire to pass their art and sentiments on to others.

First Lessons Cajon has been specially designed to guide beginning players through all of the necessary steps to becoming a proficient Cajon player in a pop and rock context. Basiclessons in rhythm will help you learn mainstream beats for the Cajon that you can use in your favorite songs. Lessons in hand position posture and sound are also included to ensure the best Cajon playing experience possible. Whether you are a beginner or have a little experience with the Cajon this book will help you master the fundamentals of this unique instrument. First Lessons Cajon includes access toonline audio tracks.

Felix Schell: DADGAD Chords Scales And Tuning offers a large number of essential chords and scales for the DADGAD tuning of the Guitar.The material assembled here opens up a multitude of possibilitiesto expand and improve your playing in this unique tuning.Chords are shown in their customary harmonic contexts instead of just listing them (as is done in most other chord-books). Skim and skip around in the book as youlike experiment and linger where ever you find your musical inspiration. Have fun with this unique DADGAD book.

An extremely simple big-note method ideal for young children. This beginner's guide to the clarinet is especially useful for the trial or rental period. Great emphasis has been placed on sound fundamentals and other basictechniques.

The purpose of Arnie Berle: How To Create And Develop A Jazz Sax Solo is to help the student answer the question 'What do I play?'. It discusses elements of jazz seventh chords blues riffs vertical andhorizontal improvisation playing through the changes rhythm patterns the scalar approach substitution and much more.

Advanced Fingerpicking Bk/3Cds-Advanced Fingerpicking Guitar Techniques. Contains solos that will challenge intermediate and advanced fingerstyle guitarists. These arrangements show the broad musical textures fingerstyle techniques and styles available tofingerstyle guitarists. Right hand rhythmic patterns counterpoint lines single-string runs and alternating bass techniques are used throughout the arrangements. Many of the tunes are Stefan's original compositions however thearrangements of music by Big Bill Broonzy Reverend Gary Davis and other fingerstyle guitar gurus are showcased. All of these arrangements are presented in standard notation and tab. A thorough explanation on how to read tab isincluded in this text. An essay by Dale Miller in Stefan Grossman's colossal role in world of fingerstyle guitar is included in this text. This book comes with three CD's which contain performances of these arrangements.Fingerstyle guitarists will enjoy playing and listening to these challenging but workable arrangements.

Playing in 6/8 Time- Let???s face it: playing djembe as it???s traditionally played can be really hard on your hands. The Gentle Djembe for Beginners series is the only set of DVDs for beginning hand drummers - especially adultbeginners - who want to experience the joys of playing djembe while going easy on their hands. It was created by Alan Dworsky the best-selling author of? How to Play Djembe and two-time winner of DRUM Magazine???s readers??? poll for ' Best Percussion Method Book .' Each of the step-by-step lessons on Volume 3 starts like a private lesson and ends with Alan???s entire class playing the rhythm so you also get a sense of what it???s like to play in a group. West African rhythms--including kpegisuand dunumba???are adapted to a Gentle Djembe style so that you can play safely and comfortably no matter what your age. Each lesson also has a matching play-along track and the DVD contains a PDF file with charts of all thepatterns so the the video is a complete learning tool. Shot in gorgeous wide-screen format and endorsed by Arthur Hull as 'the most non-intimidating way for beginning beginners to get started.' In Volume 3 you???ll enter the polyrhythmic world of 6/8 time while still going easy on your hands. You???ll learn patterns adapted from powerful West African rhythms - including kpegisu and dunumba -as well as one of the most popular 6/8 bell patterns. Like the first two Gentle Djembe videos Volume 3 provides clear step-by-step instruction with the feel of private lessons. And in addition to separate play-along tracks this DVD includes a PDF file with charts of all the patterns.

Blues Keyboard Level 1 within the School of the Blues Lesson Series is an exciting journey into blues piano and organ for the novice player. Book contains: Review of piano and theory basics; two-handed exercises in the 12 barBlues form; development of musical ideas in the right hand over the 12 Bar Blues Progression; Blues openings breaks and endings when performing with other musicians; and Blues as it???s played on the Hammond organ. This seriesis designed for students of other instruments to play together. If you have friends that play harmonica guitar bass or drums tell them about this series so that you can play together.

Jazz Blues Styles presents Guitar solos in the styles of Charlie Parker Thelonius Monk Sonny Rollins and other jazz blues greats.  Within the context of the blues this book teaches:styles of jazz blues; jazz ideas phrases and licks; jazz syncopation the rhythmic language of jazz; jazz phrasing the breath of jazz; how to use the triplet altered chords and slash chords; how to reharmonize the blues; anew innovative vocabulary of jazz chord sequences; how to use fragments of the chords to outline the harmony and create interesting new sounds; and how to play walking bass lines with chords.  JoeDiorio's 'Right Brain Guitarist(R)' approach helps to direct your playing with your intuitive sense as opposed to your logical sense. The accompanying audio download available online will help convey the subtle nuances of themusic.