SKU: XC.WB2420
ISBN 9781644022269.
This is a unique jazz ensemble resource that includes music for rehearsal and performance that can be used to enable your band to sound more mature, become better sight-readers, and help students develop as confident improvisers. The book is divided into 3 sections that become progressively more challenging, both for the wind player and the rhythm section players. The rhythm section parts are completely written out, but also include chord changes to help students make the connection between fully notated parts and chords and slashes. One of the fundamental abilities that all great Jazz groups share is that they can play a swinging unison line so together that it sounds like one voice waving through time. The purpose of this book is to help beginning and intermediate ensembles develop this skill and zero in on the most basic form of Jazzâthe BLUES.
SKU: MB.99802M
ISBN 9781513466941. 8.75 x 11.75 inches.
In this series for the intermediate guitarist, John Fahey teaches a wide variety of instrumental solos. Critics have called Johns style American Primitive Guitar. The book includes tablature and notation with three compact discs featuring note-by-note, phrase-by-phrase instruction. LESSON ONE: A general discussion of pattern picking and the use of the alternate bass. In Christ There Is No East Or West, Take A Look At That Baby and Some Summer Day. LESSON TWO: One of Johns most requested multi-sectioned composition is Indian Pacific Railroad Blues, also known as Beverley. This tune demonstrates how John composes in the fingerpicking idiom. Also taught is another very requested and imitated instrumental, Johns The Last Steam Engine Train. LESSON THREE: When The Springtime Comes Again and The Approaching Of The Disco Void. A discussion of improvisational ideas in relationship to fingerstyle compositions concludes this lesson.
SKU: MB.95501
ISBN 9780786605712. UPC: 796279025959. 8.75 x 11.75 inches. Transcribed by Dan Bowden intro. Dix Bruce.
A collection of 15 note-for-note transcriptions from Fred McDowell's Good Morning Little School Girl and You Gotta Move compact discs. All pieces contain vocal line, lyrics and fingerpicking guitar solo.
SKU: MB.GW865
5.25x7.5 inches.
Looking to spice up your repertoire? Or maybe youâ??d just like to add to your toolbox of licks and turnarounds? The best way to do either is to turn to the greats!In this lesson Ben Gateno guides you through several jaw-dropping instrumentals originally performed and recorded by three of the most legendary acoustic blues and ragtime guitarists: Lonnie Johnson, Blind Blake, and Big Bill Broonzy. Combined, all tunes featured present wildly varying textures, rhythms, techniques, and harmonic language. By the end of the lesson no part of your fretboard will go unexplored. Along the way, Ben offers crucial insights and practice tips that will help you learn not only these numbers faster and better but are sure to ramp up everything you play.All tunes are performed by Ben at speed and slowed down, with clear, detailed views of both hands. A detailed tab/music PDF file is included on the DVD with note for note transcriptions of the tunes taught. The original recordings are included in the Bonus Audio section. DVD is region 0 playable worldwide.120-minute DVD.Titles include LONNIE JOHNSON Blues in G, BIG BILL BROONZY House Rent Stomp, and BLIND BLAKE breaks from Hometown Skiffle.
SKU: MB.GW866
5.25X7.5 inches.
Blind Blake, Lonnie Johnson, and Big Bill Broonzy are among the most iconic performers of early country blues guitar. To master this musical language, it is a must for you to study their licks, techniques, and harmonic approaches.
In this lesson Ben Gateno presents three masterful solos from their repertoire. Each number is performed by Ben at full speed, as well as slowed downâ??all with focused views of each hand. In addition to teaching licks, riffs, and phrases from the tunes, Ben provides learning and practicing strategies that will help you use what you learn to enhance your own skills and find your own voice as an acoustic blues guitarist.
A detailed tab/music PDF file is included on the DVD with note for note transcriptions of the tunes taught. The original recordings are included in the Bonus Audio section. DVD is region 0 playable worldwide. 94-minute DVDTitles include LONNIE JOHNSON Away Down in the Alley Blues, BLIND BLAKE West Coast Blues, and BIG BILL BROONZY Stove Pipe Stomp
SKU: MB.30015M
ISBN 9781513465470. 8.75 x 11.75 inches.
Virtually every country blues recording made prior to World War II that has been recovered by the collectors is commercially available. No one could have anticipated how much of the recorded legacy of country blues would become available to be heard. It really is a treasure trove of musical history, and in listening to the incredible breadth and variety in the country blues that this re-issuing movement has made possible, I stand in awe of the magnitude and scope of what the people who played in this style expressed in their music. There really is something for everyone in this music, whether you like your blues smooth and sophisticated or down and dirty. - John Miller. Includes access to online audio.
SKU: MB.31108M
ISBN 9781513469232. 8.75x11.75 inches.
Award-winning blues songwriter and performer Jon Shain brings us his fingerstyle guitar arrangements of some of the earliest blues and rags ever published. W. C. Handy, known as the Father of the Blues, wrote and arranged for piano and voice and sometimes for full ragtime orchestra. Shain has arranged these compositions to be played on guitar, weaving the timeless vocal melodies and bass lines throughout the pieces. Guitar tablature, standard musical notation, and lyrics are all included, along with historical background on each song. Includes access to online audio.
SKU: MB.30792M
ISBN 9781513462981. 8.75 x 11.75 inches.
The East Coast, from Florida up to Virginia, gave birth to a vibrant fingerstyle blues tradition, documented on recordings from the mid-1920s up into the 1970s and 1980s. In East Coast Fingerstyle Blues Guitar, author John Miller has selected some of the most interesting and exciting recorded performances from that period to present to you, with transcriptions of the performances in TAB and standard notation, lyrics to the songs provided, playing tips that will help you get the songs up and running as soon as possible, and links to the original recorded performances, so that your own playing can be informed by the playing of the masters.
A particular focus of the book is the repertoire of three of the strongest practitioners of East Coast Bluesâ??Buddy Moss, Blind Willie McTell and Blind Boy Fuller. Youâ??ll also find two songs each by Luke Jordan and William Moore, a Blind Blake tune and a host of songs from artists who qualify for the designation talent deserving of wider recognition: Peg Leg Howell, Carl Martin, Floyd Council, Virgil Childers, Sonny Jones, Gabriel Brown, Ralph Willis, Willie Trice and Henry Johnson, many of whose songs are being made available for the first time.
If youâ??re looking for fingerstyle guitar pieces with a great range of feeling, musical variety and depth of expression, you need look no further than East Coast Fingertyle Blues Guitar. It will give you the information and background you need for a total immersion in this exciting music. Includes access to online audio.
SKU: HL.44004860
ISBN 9789043119962. UPC: 073999335774. 9x12 inches. International (more than one language). Jaap Berends, Miguel Boelens and Tom van Beers.
Take a ?blues cruise? with this collection of 13 wonderful pieces. Major and minor keys are used, and many different forms of the blues are covered, including hip-hop, bossa nova, reggae, and more. Includes CD for demonstration and play-along.
SKU: MB.97224M
ISBN 9780786687077. 8.5 X 11 inches.
Learn to play 14 classic blues the best way--by doing. This book and online audio recording provide your backup band as you explore Country and Urban, Acoustic and Electric, Delta, Texas, Chicago, Slide Guitar, Alternate Tuning, Traditional, and Modern styles in many different major and minor keys and in a variety of tempos. Melodies are first presented on the recording at a slow speed with just guitar, then repeated at regular speed with the band. Finally, you can play along with the hot blues rhythm section alone, and youve got the makings of a dynamite blues jam session. Youll play all the leads and solos. Repeat a tune or passage as many times as you want at slow or regular speed. Well jam all night long. Beginners and intermediate players can practice basic skills. Advanced players can hone their improvisation chops. The split track recording allows you to hear either just the melody from one speaker, just the rhythm section from the other, or both for maximum flexibility and specific study. The book includes melodies, chord diagrams and guitar tablature.
SKU: MB.21092M
ISBN 9780786694211. 8.75 x 11.75 inches.
This book stands alone as the most comprehensive teaching method for the jazz/blues guitarist. It provides everything one needs to know to successfully master the jazz/blues style covering topics such as: harmonic form, linear concepts, comping, walking bass lines, background vamps, endings and more. Packed with an abundance of practical examples, it offers something for everyone regardless of ability. This exploration of the jazz/blues will place you directly in the drivers seat once and for all. Standard notation and TAB, includes online audio.The most comprehensive teaching method for the jazz/blues guitar style All topics are covered in depth All examples are practical, enabling one to improve dramatically Offers something for everyone regardless of ability.