Par . Learn some of Berklee's favorite, most popular guitar music. This collection includes some of the most popular songs and repertoire taught by the Berklee Guitar Department faculty. The music is taught and performed in their Guitar Sessions summer programs, global initiatives, online, and on campus. By learning this music, you will experience a diversity of styles: classic rock, blues, country, singer/songwriter, jazz, jam band, funk, progressive rock, funk, classical, and contemporary improvisation/microtonal music. Each piece is selected and introduced by some of Berklee's most popular faculty members. This collection will help you become a well-rounded player and prepare you to participate in Berklee's guitar programs. Notation varies, depending on the style of the selection, and may include traditional notation, tablature, and chord diagrams. 20 songs, including: Apache (Jerry Lorden) · Freight Train (Elizabeth Cotten) · Hey Hey (Big Bill Broonzy) · Two Bones and a Pick (T-Bone Walker) · We Gather Together (16th Century Dutch song) · The Weight (Robbie Robertson) · Wildwood Flower (Maybelle Carter) · You've Got to Hide Your Love Away (Lennon/McCartney) · and more. / Date parution : 2023-08-12/ Recueil / Guitare

Kim Perlak, Curator Developed by the Berklee Guitar Department Faculty. Par . Become a more musical guitar player! This book will help you learn and use chords, scales, and other building blocks of music from a guitarist's perspective. It applies concepts of music theory directly to your instrument, using the time-honored teaching approaches of the Berklee Guitar Department. These applications facilitate creative, expressive playing and writing in all styles and directly map to the Berklee Guitar Department proficiency evaluations. Players at all levels will find a clear, organized approach to the materials and musical examples in a variety of styles, provided by Berklee's guitar faculty. You'll learn to: Master the fingerboard by understanding how strings and frets relate to scales, intervals, and chords; Understand and use the most important types of scales and modes; Construct chords and voicing possibilities based on the essential building blocks of harmony; Choose chord voicings that are ergonomic, intuitive, and expressive for every unique playing situation; and more. / Date parution : 2023-08-12/ Etude / Guitare

Volumes 1 2 and 3 with 14 Hours of Video and 123 Audio Tracks-The William Leavitt Modern Method for Guitar used as the basic text for the Berklee College of Music guitar program has stood the test of time and earned a vast and loyal following of dedicated guitar students and instructors. By popular demand Berklee Press has created a compilation of the original volumes 1 2 and 3 including all audio and video tracks. Now serious guitar students and instructors from beginning through advanced have the convenience of progressing through all three volumes of this classic guitar method in one comprehensive book. Innovative solos duets and exercises progressively teach melody harmony and rhythm. This edition contains audio andvideo produced by William Leavitt's students Charles Chapman and Larry Baione (who was his successor as chair of the Berklee Guitar Department) demonstrating the examples and providing play-along tracks for the ensemble exercises.

Play ten blues classics in the style of the masters with Berklee Blues Guitar Songbook.These transcriptions and annotations show you how the world's greatest blues guitarists created their unique inspired solos and rhythm parts. Veteran blues guitarist and educator Michael Williams reveals the techniques and nuances behind the notes that give each solo and artist their personal character and sound.By studying these solos by the blues masters including four complete classic instrumentals and rhythm parts with turnarounds and fills around the vocals you'll be able reuse their techniques for your ownperformances.Berklee Blues Guitar Songbook includes sheet music for songs such as Okie Dokie Stomp The Last Time (I Get Burned like This) Frosty I Need You So Bad and Papa Ain't Salty.

Play great jazz while you learn from this revered guitar method! These solos and duets map directly to the lessons in William Leavitt's Modern Method for Guitar Volume 1 the basic guitar text at Berklee College of Music.Since the 1960s the Modern Method for Guitar series has been one of world's most popular guitar methods translated into Spanish French and Japanese and selling over half a million copies.Carefully overseen by LarryBaione chair of Berklee's Guitar Department (and a former student of William Leavitt) these arrangements are crafted to Leavitt's time-proven approach giving you the chance to apply what you learn to music by Miles Davis Duke Ellington Sonny Rollins Django Reinhardt and other jazz greats. The accompanying audio demonstrates all the tunes and offers play-along tracks for practicing the duets.Songs include: Afternoon in Paris BasinStreet Blues A Child Is Born Daphne Here's That Rainy Day In a Sentimental Mood My Little Suede Shoes St. Thomas Samba De Orfeu So What Swing 42 Valse Hot The Very Thought of You When I Fall in Love Willow Weep forMe.The audio examples are accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be downloaded or streamed according to personal preference. The files also include PLAYBACK+ a multi-functional audio player thatallows you to slow down audio without changing pitch set loop points change keys and pan left or right.

Il Metodo Moderno Per Chitarra di William Leavitt e usato come testo base nei corsi del Berklee College of Music. Dalla sua prima pubblicazione ha guadagnato un nutrito e fedele seguito dio studenti e insegnati. Articolato intre volumni il metodo accompagna il chitarrista in un percorso di studio che spazia dalle nozioni di base fino alle tecniche piu avanzate attraverso un approccio pratico e completo. Il secondo volume affronta lo studiodella melodia delle scale degli arpeggi e degli accordi lungo l'intera tastiera. Contenuto: Intervalli Figure accordali Improvvisazione Studi di velocita Nozioni teoriche

This DVD will help to take yor playing to the next level. Professor Tomo Fujita shares his proven method for improving the essential skills required to play with other musicians and to freely express yourself on the Guitar.Professor Fukita has been teaching at Berklee College of Music since 1993 and continues to be one of the most sought after and effective Guitar and ensemble teachers. He has played Guitar with the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning musical Rent and has shared the stage with notables such as Phil Collins Roomful of Blues and Darryl Jones and the Saturday Night Live band to name a few. Additionally Tomo is the winnerof Boston's Best Guitarist Competition and he has won critical acclaim in Guitar Player and Guitar Shop magazines.

Learn the essential tools and skills for playing jazz guitar. This practical guidebook will help you master the theory technique and conceptual framework for how to play jazz: comping chords soloing and playing withexpression facility and good hand health. The accompanying recording provides demonstrations of key technical concepts with play-along tracks to help you develop phrasing and location concepts on the fingerboard. It also provides examples to train your ear with call-and-response exercises similar to what you might be asked to perform at an audition or jury. A unique section on audition preparation for colleges andprofessional music programs with an extended interview with Berklee College of Music's director of admissions will help you advance in your career.

With Blues Guitar Technique you can learn classic blues rhythm Guitar and soloing techniques in the style of the greats such as B.B. King T-Bone Walker Albert Collins Robert Lockwood Jr. Jimmie Vaughan andothers.Blues Guitar Technique is the more technique-oriented companion to Mike Williams' first book Berklee Blues Guitar Songbook. The accessible online recording includes live blues band that demonstratesall techniques (full band and play-along tracks).

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!