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Designed to motivate and inspire students Guitar Sherpa's innovative learning systems employ a hands-on contextual format. Students 'play' their way through Guitar Sherpa curriculum rather than working through tedious examples and exercises.Trey Alexander winner of Guitar Player's Guitar Superstar award opens up his big bag of improvisational theoretical and technical chops to reveal the blazing techniques and high-level concepts that he has cultivated over years of intensive study live performances and a tenacious dedication to his craft.Atomic Rock guides your development of the essential skills needed to succeed in today's modern rock arena. You'll learnfretboard navigation concepts and a variety of right and left hand techniques to facilitate easy movement both vertically and horizontally across the neck. Trey also drills down on a wide range of improvisational skills that will help you develop strong melodic statements and distinctive rhythmic grooves.Atomic Rock covers a broad range of modern rock concepts including Trey's award-winning 'Modern Equivalent'. This course is designed to expose you to the variety of contemporary grooves rhythmic patterns techniques phrasing and theoretical approaches that today's rock Guitarist must master. You'll work through ballads up-tempo power grooves and jazz rock styles and also study expressive devices such as legato tapping sweep-picking and the use of harmonics to enhance a tune's melodic structure avoiding shred for shred's sake.Atomic Rock is a hands-on playing course - you'll be rockin' out from the very first lesson and will quickly develop a raging addiction to your Atomic Rock practice sessions. Hands-On Learning Tools included with Atomic Rock Guitar: Text Lesson Guide Standard Notation Guitar Tab Power Tab Files Power Tab Software Practice Rhythm Tracks Bonus Material. Secure PIN enclosed in DVD package for quick and secure download of learning tools.

Young players of today are exposed to a variety of contemporary styles and this new series of jazzy and relaxing pieces for Recorder attempts to provide players with experience of the syncopated patterns of Jazz Rock and Pop music whilst keeping within technical bounds which will have been achieved at various grades. The Piano accompaniments are deliberately simple in order to encourage young players to act in this capacity.

In this information-packed DVD master jazz drummer and clinician Peter Magadini reveals the essential ingredients of jazz drumming. Inspirational live performances concise explanations demonstrations and exercises provide a comprehensive overview of traditional and contemporary jazz drumming styles and techniques including: Playing the jazz ride cymbal Playing with a ‘two’ feel The ride cymbal and independence Jazz form and structure Latin and Latin-Jazz patterns Samba Cascara and more Techniques for improvising on the drumset Playing fours and eights: how to trade solos with the band Brush technique Interpreting drum charts inall styles Jazz-Rock Fusion

The Associated Board's Jazz Piano series is a comprehensive introduction to the world of jazz. A pioneering set of publications and a rigorously planned syllabus provide the building blocks you need to play jazz with imagination understanding and style and to improvise effectively right from the start. Five books of graded pieces provide a wealth of jazz repertoire for you to play from the great African-American tradition to the vibrant dynamic and multicultural nature of jazz today. Throughout there is a huge range of styles: funky rock grooves up tempo swing tunes calypsos latin pieces jazz waltzes modal pieces bebop gospel etc. There areclassic tunes by such jazz greats as Miles Davis and Thelonius Monk in addition to the brand new pieces which have been specially commissioned from professional British jazz pianists and educators.Within each album there are 15 pieces presented in three categories - blues standards and contemporary jazz. Each piece provides a head which contains all the characteristic voicings phrasing and rhythmic patterns needed for a stylish performance. An improvised section follows where guideline pitches and left-hand voicings are given as a practical starting point for your own solos.These pieces will get you playing confidently and creatively.

A guide to Applying afro-cuban grooves to funk rock and jazz for bass and drums. CLAVE and TUMBAO. Traditional bass tumbao examples Cascara paila and bell ride patterns. SONGO. Drumset orchestrations Funfified slap songo tumbaos Songo style jam. GUAGUANCO. Conga patterns on the drumset combining traditional and hybrid bass lines with rumba and funk. AFRO-CUBAN 6/8 6/8 patterns as a vehicle for other rhythmic possibilities and diferent time feels CHA-CHA-CHA. Adaptability to rock Spap cha-cha-cha playing a backbeat. MOZAMBIQUE. Mozambique in rock and funk context. Lincoln Goines is one ofNew York's most respected and recorded bassists. His concept of the bass as a rhythm instrument and his ability to incorporate traditional Latin lines with ideas drawn from percussion patterns can be heard on recordings with well known Latin-jazz artists Dave Valenting Michel Camilo Gato Barbieri Paquito D'Rivera Tania Maria and Eliane Elias. Lincoln is also known for his contemporary jazz-funk playing with John Scofiel Mike Stern and Bob Berg. Bobby Ameen has made a life study of Afro-Cuban rhythms and combines this knowledge with his own powerful drumming style to create a highly original funk/Afro-Cuban amalgam. Robby's ability to complement a Latin rhythm section can be heard on recordings with Ruben Blades Dave Valentin Dizzy Gillespie Kip Hanrahan and Eddie Palmieri among many others. Robby has also worked with Paquito D'Rivera Gato Barbieri Willie Colon and Paul Simon. Includes separate pull-out in Spanish.

Creative Saxophone is an innovative series for the beginner Alto or Tenor Saxophonist who wants to play Jazz Rock and other contemporary music styles whilst developing a solid technique. The idiomatic exercises and pieces encourage an awareness of authentic styles and give players the confidence to begin improvising from as early as possible.An accompanying CD features backings for many of the pieces performed by world-class musicians giving the student an opportunity to experience playing against a real band.Introduces essential techniquesBuilds confidence and fluency in performance and improvisationHarmonics vibrato alternative andaltissimo fingerings all coveredProvides interesting and effective ways gto practice scales modes and arpeggiosDevelops improvisation skills through focusing on patterns cycle of fifths II-V-I and transcription

Ultimate Contemporary Rhythm Keyboard Grooves by Andrew D. Gordon will give you an insight into how keyboardists play rhythm Keyboard grooves in many different styles of contemporary music such as: Pop Rock Blues Jazz Funk R&B Latin Gospel New Age Reggae Calypso. Each of the 21 grooves is broken down into patterns ranging from 3 up to 16 with over 150 patterns in total. Each groove uses a chord progression that is commonly used for that style of music and generally starts off with a simplified pattern and as you progress through the groove the patterns become more complex both rhythmically and harmonically.The CD that accompaniesthis book contains all the patterns that are notated in the book. Each pattern is recorded twice 1st. with the Keyboard rhythm part playing along with a rhythm section of Organ Guitar Bass and Drums and in certain grooves percussion 2nd. the rhythm section without the piano rhythm part so you can practice along. Also there are extended 2-3 minute play-a-long mp3 files of all 21 grooves contained on the CD that can be accessed from a computer enabling you to practice each groove and pattern for an extended period of time. The play-a-long mp3 files gives you the ability to either practice the rhythm patterns notated in the book in whatever order you prefer as well as the possibility of creating your own rhythm patterns. MIDI files are also included on the CD.This book is being used by Andrew to teach Keyboard students in his 'Keyboard Groove Lab' at Cornel School of Contemporary Music in Los Angeles.

The Blues Scale for Alto Saxophone and Eb instruments by Andrew D. Gordon is he feels one of his most important books because of the nature of the blues scale and how it is used to improvise in many styles of contemporary music. This book contains 20 grooves in 13 styles: Pop: 2 Grooves Rock: 3 Grooves Blues: 2 Grooves Jazz-Swing: 1 Groove Funk: 3 Grooves R

Par HESSLER CLAUS. A new, comprehensive 224-page publication by the open-handed playing specialist, Claus Hessler! Here you can find everything a contemporary drummer needs to be able to play today. Claus teaches you new rhythmic skills that facilitate greater security and musical freedom. Whether you play rock, pop, funk, Latin, jazz, Afro-Cuban, or second-line music, the high-quality MP3 CD enables you to practice every exercise in every style in three different tempos. Each groove, style and tempo, using dynamics from very soft to very loud, are practiced in a daily routine, and through this technique, the player's response to the rhythmic grooves and patterns becomes automatic, allowing greater concentration on the musical aspects of modern drumming. Constant and ritualized practice will not only advance your skills at the drumset and help develop key competencies like endurance, discipline, structured thinking, and ear-training, but will give you the space and time to develop your own musical personality as well. Practice routine formulas and drumset applications using straight eighth/sixteenth notes and triplet-based rhythms for: * Basic Independence * Accents * Single Strokes * Double Strokes * Inverted Doubles * Buzz Rolls * Flams * Syncopation Concepts * Various Ostinato Patterns * Three-Note Groupings * Five-NoteGroupings. / Methods

Groove Essentials is based on the definitive collection of contemporary Rock Jazz R And B/Funk and World/Ethnic drumming styles contained in the Groove Essentials poster developed by world class drummer teacher and author Tommy Igoe. On this DVD Tommy demonstrates forty seven of today's most popular drum patterns including a performance of each with a rhythm track played by some of New York's top players. This unique feature lets students hear what each groove sounds and feels like with real music played by live musicians.The DVD Package includes a Groove Essentials poster which contains fully notated examples of every one of the forty sevengrooves on the DVD.