Essential Elements for Guitar - Book 2: Guitar Solo: Instrumental Album

For those of you who enjoy playing or want to play unplugged, this is your book of choice. Written in standard notation, it guides you through the basics of playing the guitar using rock, blues, country and folk music. In addition, techniques such as bending, sliding, hammer-on and pull-off are included. This book combines the essential elements of Books 1, 2 and 3 of Alfred's Basic Guitar Method and is a complete course.

Take your guitar teaching to a new level! Hal Leonard's top-selling comprehensive method for band and strings is now also available for guitar.With the time-tested classroom teaching methods of Will Schmid and Bob Morris popular songs in a variety of styles and quality demonstration and backing tracks available as online audio Essential Elements For Guitar is an ideal resource of guitar teachers' instruction. This method has been designed to meet the National Standards for Music Education with features such as cross-curricular activities quizzes multicultural songs basic improvisation and more. Concepts covered in Book 1 include:Getting startedBasicmusic theoryGuitar chordsNotes on each stringMusic historyEnsemble playingPerformance spotlights

Essential Elements for Guitar Book 2 is a continuation of the concepts and skills taught in Book 1 and includes all of its popular features as well - great songs in a variety of styles a high-quality audio CD withdemonstration and backing tracks quizzes music history music theory and much more. Concepts taught in Book 2 include:- Playing melodically in positions up the neck-Playing movable chord shapes up theneck-Playing scales and extended chords in different keys-More right-hand studies ? fingerpicking and pick style-Improvisation in positions up the neck-Studying different styles through greatsong selections-and more!

(Sample solos by Mike Steinel) At last, a jazz play-along book for developing players! In addition to being a perfect introduction to some of the best-known jazz standards, Essential Elements Jazz Standards includes hints for improvising on each tune, a guide to jazz articulations, a scale/chord correlation chart, and biographical sketches of key jazz figures. And if that wasn't enough, each tune comes with its own sample solo for reference or performance! The professionally recorded audio CD has tempo adjustment software for use in your computer. Includes: Now's the Time, Killer Joe, Blue Bossa, C-Jam Blues, Footprints, Song for My Father, Autumn Leaves, Freddie Freeloader, St. Thomas and Blue Train. · Play-along CD with choice of full recording (with melody) or rhythm section only · Tempo adjustment software (computer required) · Sample written solos and improvising hints · Rhythm book includes bass lines, piano voicings, and drum patterns / Section Rythmique (Piano, Guitare, Basse, Batterie)

Media Type : Book Level : Beginning-Intermediate Musical Genre : Classic Number of pages : 76 Traditionally the classic guitar has been either excluded or inadequately represented in orchestration textbooks, resulting in much misinformation about its technique, its practicality in various performance contexts, and its character. The guitar's unique tuning, broad timbral variety and intimate nature pose a formidable challenge to non-guitarist composers, for whom an extensive amount of time would be required to gain even a minimal hands-on acquaintance. For most composers this is an unrealistic expectation, leading to time-consuming consultations and extensive drafting or rewriting. The purpose of this book is to provide the non-guitarist composer with the fundamental tools needed to write idiomatically for the guitar. The first of its kind for the guitar, the reference was written in consultation with dozens of composers and conceived with three types of end users in mind: - Experienced composers with a concern for writing idiomatically for the guitar. - Guitarists who are commissioning a work from a composer who has never written for the instrument. - Libraries that wish to add this essential sourcebook to their music reference section. The very structure of the book reflects the composer's own intuition by addressing such questions as: - How is the guitar constructed? - What does successful guitar music look like? - How is the guitar played? - How does the guitarist interpret music and express emotion? - Which musical elements and gestures are most effective? - How do these elements combine to create an effective pacing of idioms? By examining the parameters of successfully written pieces, The Composer's Desk Reference for the Classic Guitar provides an expedient resource of ideas and illustrations contributing to the fluency of both first-time and seasoned guitar composers.

Comprehensive band method-Now the best-selling band method is even better! Book 1 for absolute beginners includes a start-up video and much much more all on CD-ROM.Features:Same great Essential Elements 2000 method!15-minute video/?super lesson? for learning the basicsPlay-along mp3* tracks for all 185 exercises (featuring a professional player on your instrument)Tempo Adjustment SoftwareDuets and TriosMusic Listening LibrarySmartMusic® Software for Exercises 1-100 (for use on PC/Mac) - practice record and email a performance with on-screen assessment

Take your guitar teaching to a new level! Hal Leonard's top-selling comprehensive method for band and strings is now also available for guitar. With the time-tested classroom teaching methods of Will Schmid and Bob Morris andpopular songs in a variety of styles Essential Elements for Guitar is sure to become a staple of guitar teachers' instruction – and get beginning guitar students off to a great start.This method has beendesigned to meet the National Standards for Music Education with features such as cross-curricular activities quizzes multicultural songs basic improvisation and more. Concepts covered in Book 1 include: getting started; basicmusic theory; guitar chords; notes on each string; ensemble playing; and much more!Songs used in Book 1 include such hits as: Dust in the Wind • Eleanor Rigby • Every Breath You Take • Hey Jude • HoundDog • Let It Be • Ode to Joy • Rock Around the Clock • Stand By Me • Surfin' USA • Sweet Home Chicago • This Land Is Your Land • You Really Got Me • and more!

The most complete guide to jazz/blues soloing ever written! This comprehensive book details the sounds elements and approaches that make the blues such an integral part of the jazz vocabulary. Moving from blues progressions tofingerboard organization to phrasing essential blues scales riffs lick development and an array of advanced concepts and devices including substitute scales & extended super arpeggios are covered. Throughout this process 38solos over 100 music examples and hundreds of licks are featured. Written in notation and tablature.

The Language of Music and How to Speak It-Victor Lemonte Wooten emerged as a once-in-a-lifetime game-changing bassist in the early- 90s via his highly innovative playing with Bela Fleck & the Flecktones. Launching his solo career a few years later with A Show of Hands it soon became apparent that Wooten was also a major musical force thanks to an organic and highly original approach to music and music education. In this book/online video package Victor Wooten Bass Workshop: The Language of Music and How to Speak It Victor reveals his musical soul. In Part 1 he outlines his ten essential elements of music including such important and under-emphasized areas as emotion and feel dynamics tone phrasing space and listening. This section deals more with Victor s concepts and approaches and are more theoretical in nature. In Part 2 Victor addresses the personal lessons using text notation tablature and video footage to cover such key topics as warming up and hand-strengthening tone harmonics thumb technique tapping looping and soloing. This section is a more how to approach with hands-on demonstrations. Throughout Victor underscores this vital material with a groove first ethic as well an accent on being musical and creative three mandatory ingredients to becoming a highly-sought-after professional bassist. All of which makes Victor Wooten Bass Workshop a must-have tool for bass players at all levels. Includes online 4 hrs. of video that can be streamed or downloaded.