Steve James: Learn To Play Blues Mandolin: Mandolin: Instrumental Tutor

Get Bluesy on the Mandolin as Steve James brings learning Mandolinists more of the funky old-time songs that made his previous instructional DVD on this instrument so popular! He covers blues scales chord patterns walking lines arpeggios accompaniments and a selection of great tunes!

Includes Guitar solo tutorials and 3 speed Guitar jam tracks to solo sections lessons by Andy James.This excellent DVD will show you how to nail five Guitar solos by this master of the fetboard! The accompanying CD includes Guitar jam tracks for each solo section at slow medium and full tempo so you can learn each solo at your own pace and steadily build up to full speed. Guitar solo lessons include: Ladies Nite In Buffalo; Going Crazy; Elephant Gun; Big Trouble; Bump And Grind

Learn five Steve Vai tracks note for note with Andy James and Jamie Humphries. This superb 2 DVD set will teach you the fretboard pyrotechnics and superb melodic playing that define one of today's most influential guitarists. Songs include: Die To Live The Boy From Seattle Juice The Animal and Boston Rain Melody.

Perfect for the student of Jazz. --Michael Brecker ?I encourage the jazz guitar students at the University of North Texas to emulate tenor saxophonists. Greg Fishman's book, Jazz Guitar Etudes, contains idiomatic bebop lines and will be a great tool for any guitar teacher with aspiring jazz guitarists. Thanks, Greg!? Fred Hamilton, professor of jazz guitar, University of North Texas ?These are great solos and etudes! I'm always telling my guitar students to learn lines and phrasing from horn players, and Greg Fishman's book is perfect for this approach. The book is nicely done and very well laid out.? Corey Christiansen Professor of Guitar, Utah State University, Visiting Professor, Indiana University This book is very well put together and very thorough. It gives guitar students the information necessary to obtain a vocabulary based on the bebop tradition, yet ultimately encourages them to improvise on these structures, creating their own lines and ideas. I commend you on meeting this challenge head-on, and for effectively clarifying these concepts in your liner notes. --Steve Cardenas Professor of Guitar, The New School, New York City, member of the Paul Motian Band and Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchesra. The lines are great, the rhythm section is terrific, and I really love the fact that the student guitarist working out of this book gets to play along with both the guitarist on the CD and with your tenor. This book is incredibly well thought out. Congratulations on a fantastic book! --Jack Peterson, legendary jazz guitar professor (retired) from Berklee and North Texas State Just Jazz Guitar's rave review of Jazz Guitar Etudes by Greg Fishman: Jazz Guitar Etudes is an excellent resource for all guitarists and teachers. After releasing a very popular etudes book for jazz saxophone, Greg Fishman collaborated with guitarist Mike Allemena to do a guitar version of the book. The book includes standard notation and tablature. The studies in the book are great written improvised solos over familiar chord progressions such as the blues, rhythm changes, and standards. The book comes with a CD that features a guitar version, a saxophone version, and a rhythm section version of each etude. In addition, Fishman begins the book with concepts in developing jazz lines such as proper voice leading and sequences. The melodic lines are very well designed phrases using the the bebop language. Guitarists can gain so much by playing and analyzing these etudes --Just Jazz Guitar Magazine Endorsed by Michael Brecker, Dave Liebman, Phil Woods, James Moody, Plas Johnson, Mark Colby, Bob Sheppard, Jerry Coker, Gary Campbell, Tim Price, Gary Keller, Chip McNeil and many other teachers and players around the world, this series of saxophone etude and duet books will immediately help you take your playing to the next level. Click a cover and hear a sample... New book release for Jazz Guitar: Jazz Guitar Etudes book and CD Play-along set is now in stock and shipping! This book features master jazz guitarist Mike Allemana playing twelve bebop style etudes. Also includes Greg Fishman playing each etude on tenor saxophone. This allows the guitarist the choice of playing with Mike (guitar) or Greg (tenor). Book also features tablature with Mike's own fingerings! 52 pages, 8.5 x 11 format, ISBN 978-0-9766153-7-8

Arrangements for Solo Acoustic Guitar 2 - more instrumentals from a national champion.Pete Huttlinger continues his exploration of the guitar arrangements that have won him accolades throughout the acoustic guitar world - and a National Fingerstyle Championship! An engaging and accomplished instructor, Pete brings his spectacular playing with dramatic performance pieces that are as challenging as they are fun to learn.Pete starts out by teaching his Merle Travis-inspired chord/melody arrangement of the great Gershwin tune I Got Rhythm. His exciting version features lightening-fast fingerpicking and a total left hand workout.Things calm down a bit as you learn Pete's somewhat easier 'Chet-style' fingerpicking tune Darcy's Guitar. Then you're off and running again, this time with an in-depth teaching of Pete's most requested tune, the showstopper, The Santa Rita Connection.McGuire's Landing in DADGAD brings us back to a mellow Celtic mood. Tommy In The Morning, written by Pete for fellow fingerpicker Tommy Emmanuel, and the lovely hymn On Eagles' Wings, played in James Taylor's evocative style, round out this terrific DVD lesson.Over the years, Peter Huttlinger has established himself as a top-notch session player, composer, arranger, songwriter and sideman. The Berklee graduate has been a featured artist with the San Diego and Housten symphonies and the Nashville Chamber Orchestra, and has performed on numerous Grammy winning and nominated projects. In 2000 he won first place in the prestigious National Fingerstyle Championship in Winfield, Kansas. Pete toured, recorded and performed with John Denver from 1994 until the singer's death in 1997. He has also written music for HBO, PBS, ESPN, and many other networks. His 2003 release Naked Pop is on Steve Vai's Favored Nations label. / Guitare