Berklee Practice Method: Guitar

Get Your Band Together-This is the first ever method that teaches you how to play in a rock band. Learn what all the great musicians seem to know intuitively - how to listen interact and respond improvise and become part of the groove. The book andplay-along CD will help improve your timing technique and reading ability. Become the great player that everyone wants to have in their band. Examples are given in full bass tablature.

Play great rock while you learn from one of the most revered guitar methods of all time! These songs map directly to the lessons of William Leavitt's Modern Method for Guitar Vol. 1 (GS49404) the basic guitar text at BerkleeCollege of Music. Carefully overseen by Scotty Johnson of Berklee's Guitar Department these arrangements are crafted to Leavitt's time-proven approach giving you the chance to apply what you learn to the music of theBeatles the Rolling Stones the Who Creedence Clearwater Revival Santana and many others.The accompanying CD demonstrates all tunes and offers play-along tracks for practicing the duets. Songs include: Beast ofBurden • Day Tripper • La Bamba • My Girl • Oye Como Va • Pinball Wizard • Smooth • Sunshine of Your Love • and more!

This is the first book of this 3-volume series which aims to be a practical and comprehensive guitar instruction programme. Includes studies chord forms and rhythm accompaniment. Book only edition.

This if the last book of this 3-volume series which aims to be a practical and comprehensive guitar instruction programme. Intensive instruction in scales arpeggios chord construction rhythm guitar chord-scalerelationships solos and duets.

If you've heard jazz guitarists like Joe Pass play chord melody you may think that the style requires an encyclopedic knowledge of music theory musical super-powers or making a deal with the devil. But fear not! This bookwill show you how to create your own satisfying chord melody arrangements on the Mandolin...and will do so in a practical applicable way.'Aaron Weinstein has many musical accomplishments. I am very proud to have playeda small part with some of them. When he was only 12 he made his first recordings and asked me to play Mandolin on them. I was knocked out to encounter someone that young that was conversant in both old-time or contest fiddling andJoe Venuti style jazz. Not long after that Aaron became interested in the Mandolin and chords and he came by every so often to play and discuss voicings improvisation and the like. I showed him some of the Jethro Burns chordmelody arrangements that Jethro showed me. I've been teaching those for decades in hopes of one day playing them smoothly myself!Fast forward a few more years and Aaron has a Berklee degree traveled the worldplaying hot Violin music and is hobnobbing with the greatest NYC jazz stars. And oh yeah one other thing: he took the art of chord-melody Mandolin style to an entirely new level! The rich harmonies of the standard jazz and showtune repertoire the swinging bass lines and connecting chords and independent voice movements (doing more than one thing at a time) are all present in Aaron's style thanks to his great ear open mind and gift at locating thingson the fretboard. And now Aaron has documented explained and shared his discoveries and approach with all of us in this book. Thank you Aaron!This is truly a step-by-step method that you will enjoy. You'll findyourself saying 'oh of course!' as the author gets you playing and understanding things that sound very detailed and complex. The first section I would call the mandolinistic stuff: the how-to on getting things moving and