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

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.

In this easy-to-follow book and DVD set Juan Martin and Patrick Campbell provide a thorough introduction to flamenco Guitar.What are the essential elements and techniques of flamenco Guitar playing?How does one capture the real essence of authentic flamenco Guitar? These are questions that Juan Martin celebrated virtuoso flamenco guitarist and teacher addresses in this first book of a projected three-volumeseries.This method is designed for the complete beginner and requires no prior knowledge of the Guitar or flamenco music. It also provides invaluable insights and material for more advanced players who want to capture theessential sounds rhythms and emotional power of true flamenco.The series begins with in-depth demonstrations of how the basic building blocks of flamenco Guitar technique are used in actual flamenco music. The materialthen progresses to a detailed exploration of the individual rhythmic forms - the palos.In this book the fundamental palos of Solea and Alegrias are presented to emphasize the basic rhythms and provide examples of falsetas- the melodic passages. Martin then shows how to apply these when collaborating with a dancer and singer.In Essential Flamenco Guitar: Volume 1 the music is transcribed in standard notation andtablature (cifra). The two DVDs contain over 3.5 combined hours of explanation and demonstrations.The first DVD provides a detailed introduction to basic techniques using examples of authentic flamenco to show thesetechniques in action. The second DVD progresses to demonstrations of the Solea and Alegrias including music for the soloist and the Guitar accompanying the dancing and singing.

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 quizzes music history musictheory and much more. Concepts taught in Book 2 include: playing melodically in positions up the neck; playing movable chord shapes up the neck; 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 great song selections; and more!

Par MARTIN JUAN / CAMPBELL PATRICK. The acclaimed first volume of this exciting series gave extensive insights into basic techniques of flamenco Guitar playing and the two important rhythmic forms (palos) of Solea and Alegrias. This second volume continues on with an exploration of further essential rhythmic palos. The first of these, occupying the whole of the first DVD, is the Bulerias. Juan Martin brings his many years of experience as an internationally renowned flamenco soloist and accompanist for singers and dancers to unravelling its mysteries, explaining and demonstrating very clearly the different elements of its rhythmic structure and the various ways it may be accented and counted. He uses traditional and more modern examples of the different kinds of rhythm and melodic passages (falsetas) to provide an invaluable understanding of this wonderful palo. The second DVD is devoted to the popular flamenco Rumba, then Tangos, Tientos and that most profound of all the palos, the deeply moving Seguiriyas. Martin's solo playing is complemented by demonstrations of the Guitar's role in accompanying the flamenco dance (baile) and song (cante) with the help of outstanding dancers Raquel de Luna and Miguel Infante and singers Amparo Heredia (La Repompilla) and Carlos Brias. The music for solo Guitar is transcribed in standard notation and tablature (cifra) and the two DVDs contain nearly three hours of explanation and demonstrations. The series is complemented by two other best-selling Juan Martin volumes published by Mel Bay, shown below. These provide progressively graded solo material to extend the repertoire, from beginner to concert level./ Tablatures / Guitare Tablatures

Rhythm Section-(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 FreddieFreeloader 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

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