Learn an entirely new way to improvise over jazz changes!This hefty book and CD pack sheds new light on the old five-note scales that all guitarists know and love.The system is theoretically sound easy to implement and best of all it's designed specifically for Guitar.It will work with any chord progression - from simple to complex and unlike other systems there are no notes to avoid.

Guitar Signature Licks-Learn and explore the music of one of the most respected jazz guitar players of our time with this useful book and CD package. An in-depth hands-on analysis of 13 performances including 'Affirmation' 'Body Talk' 'Clockwise' and more.

Pioneer Of The Electric Guitar. Par AYEROFF STAN. D'innombrables musiciens ont été inspirés en entendant Charlie Christian pour la première fois. Dans ce livre passionnant, l'auteur a compilé 39 transcriptions solos précises (en notation seulement), mais aussi une analyse approfondie de chacun. Il y a aussi une 'comment' complète à la section qui est un livre en soi. L'auteur a enregistré chaque transcription dans les versions lentes et rapides sur deux CD. Le livre contient un de meilleure travaux de Charlie y compris les Sessions de Jam à de Minton, Spirituals de John Hammond se balancer des concerts et des enregistrements de Blue Note céleste de Express. Charlie Christian fut le premier à populariser l'utilisation de la guitare électrique dans le jazz. Il a été le pionnier qui a ouvert la voie. / Niveau : Intermédiaire à Avancé / Jazz - Solos / Recueil / Guitare

Pour la première fois en DVD, Al Di Meola partage les techniques et concepts qui ont fait de lui un guitariste reconnu mondialement. Al Di Meola montre ses choix de gammes pour les solos, des mélodies, plans et patterns. Les techniques de la main droite dont le picking. Dans cet enregistrement il joue 'Cielo e Terra' et 'Orient Blues'. En bonus : une performance avec Frank Gambale, une leçon sur les diminutions. 90 minutes, en anglais et livret de partitions. / Guitare / Dvd

Cole Porter est reconnu pour son esprit et son style ludique dans les paroles et la musique. Il a vécu la vie et la musique avec style, avec de l'énergie et une appréciation copieuse pour la subtile, le grandiose, l'animé et le silly. Ce livre est le premier d'une série de deux volumes contenant toutes ses chansons les plus aimés, y compris ' I get a Kick out of vous ', ' Begin the Beguine ', ' Chaque fois nous Say Goodbye ' et ' Night and Day '. Il comprend aussi une biographie et une sélection fantastique de GIF, qui offre un rare aperçu de la vie de Porter. / Piano/Vocal/Guitare (PVG) / 288 pages / Partition

11 superbes arrangements par le guitariste Andy Jones présentés en solfège et tablatures. / Guitare / Partition

This comprehensive step-by-step guide will get you soloing like a true Jazzer by providing a complete understanding of chords scales and solos based around four popular standards.Whether you are new to Jazz playing or are looking for a way to progress from your current level Sokolow's approach will have plenty to offer you to lift your improvising and help you understand the potential in these great tunes. Each of the four tunes has a different level of difficulty offering a choice of starting points to suit your own experience.Song 1: First position chordsSong 2: Moveable chords and a more developed harmonic vocabularySong 3: Substitutionsand re-harmonisationSong 4: An improvisational chord solo over a given set of changes.Along the way you'll find a generous level of guidance and support. Furthermore an accompanying CD features all the backing tracks and demonstrations you could possibly need.This is the ideal choice to develop your Jazz vocabulary as well as your improvising confidence - no matter what your playing level.

With the help of this book Jim Ferguson who is one of the foremost names in jazz guitar instruction helps you unleash the improvisational power of the same fingerboard shapes that are utilized by many guitargreats.Material includes numerous major minor and dominant chord-based patterns and superimpositions along with a host of ideas and concepts to help you assemble them into dynamic solos. Four complete solos on commonsong forms/progressions are included along with a 28-track CD. Presented in standard notation and TAB.

A special close-up examination of the unique virtuoso techniques of guitar maestro Stanley Jordan. Jordan's multi-layered guitar sounds have created albums that defy conventions and catagorisations. He has taken the technique of two-handed tapping and developed a method of playing that pushes the technique to the limit creating the impression of two or three simultaneous guitars. This style of playing allows Jordan to perform otherwise impossible melodic lines. arrangements and chords that embrace the full range of the fretboard at once. The technique has given Jordan a unique Jazz voice and an unmistakable sound that is both captivating and thrilling to witness.This DVD coversall aspects of his tapping technique and how to develop the idea into full improvisations and solos including:Aspects of melody and the extended range offered by this techniqueDynamics and creating rich expressive guitar tonesUtilizing electronics to create alluring and unusual soundsPractice methods to minimise mistakes and boost your dexterityDiscover a whole new world of possibilities with this indispensable DVD from a true virtuoso. Includes a 28-page booklet of examples and exercises.

Develop your own unique Guitar style by expanding your vocabulary of licks and melodic ideas! This book/CD pack will teach you dominant altered dominant minor and II-V-I licks by examining the lead styles of Larry Carlton Larry Coryell Pat Metheny John Scofield Mike Stern and other greats. The CD includes demonstrations of each lick at normal and slow speeds.

In the pursuit of improvisation (jazz or other styles) scales are the ?palettes? utilized for creating melodies. Often scales are only practiced ascending or descending step-wise. ?Jazz Scale Workout? by Ken Karsh contains eightmeasure through-composed continuous eighth note exercises (or ?workouts?) utilizing ?jazz style? melodies based around the Major Dorian (minor seventh) Mixolydian (Dominant) and Super-Locrian (Altered Dominant) scales?the mostcommon scales in the jazz idiom. Four basic guitar fingerings for each scale are provided for the foundation of these exercises. Since these scales are the basis for improvising over the frequently utilized ii-V-I progression thefinal ?workouts? found in this publication cover this area. There are two ?workouts? provided for each scale form?one with only the scale tones (labeled ?Diatonic?) and the other with ?outside? chromatic tones resolving to thediatonic scale tones (labeled ?Chromatic?). The ?workouts? can and should be tried with different fingerings and should be played in all keys for maximum benefit. ?Jazz Scale Workout? provides an enjoyable ?finger and mentalfitness program? for guitarists interested in expanding their scale awareness in the jazz idiom.

Have you ever wanted to play some great jazz tunes but found it difficult to locate the best fingerings for guitar? This book/CD pack will help you play 12 terrific bebop standards in their definitive keys with tablature and play-along tracks! Major scale patterns and chord diagrams are also included for reference and study.

13 Jazz favourites arranged for chord-melody Guitar with notation and tab as well as demo recordings. Songs include: All Of Me; Edelweiss; Yesterdays; Misty and more!

The Pursuit is Jamie Cullum's first solo album in four years his fifth record in a genre defying career that has entertained an ever-growing fanbase across the world.The songs are wonderfully eclectic as always mixing modern influences with his love of jazz and timeless standards.This book contains all the songs from the special edition album arranged for Piano and Voice with Guitar chords along with four pages of colour photographs.