Guitar World -- Play Lead Guitar!

This book is part of a series that forms an expertly structured and comprehensive method of studying acoustic guitar; it has been compiled by the Registry Of Guitar Tutors ? the world?s leading authority on guitar education. The book is very user-friendly as it is written in easy-to-read TAB as well as traditional notation and it comes with a free 16-track CD so you can ?listen and learn?. This book covers all the material needed for the London College of Music Grade Eight examination in acoustic guitar playing enabling you to study for an internationally recognised qualification. However even if you do not intend to takean exam this book will help you achieve your full potential as a guitarist by developing all aspects of your playing in a structured way. This volume includes fingerstyle/flatpick pieces in a range of styles ? from traditional to contemporary plus a comprehensive selection of chords scales and arpeggios. There are also chapters on musical knowledge and accompaniment playing plus aural exercises to help improve your musical abilities ? making it ideal for those who wish to extend their musical range and knowledge and improve their playing to the highest level. The book is cleverly designed so that it can be used by both fingerstyle and plectrum players.

Worship Band Play Along Volume 5-The Worship Band Play-Along series is a flexible and innovative tool for worship leaders and bands. Each volume offers five separate correlated book/CD packs: Keyboard Guitar Bass Drumset and Vocal.Bands can use the printed music and chord charts to play live together and members can rehearse at home with the CD tracks. Worship leaders without a band can play/sing along with the CD for a fuller sound. The eight songs in each volume follow a similar theme for easy set selection and the straight-forward arrangements are perfect for bands of any level.The CDs are playable on any CD player and also enhanced so Mac and PC users can adjust the recording to anytempo without changing pitch to learn the songs at their own pace.

This collection of the work of the Maltese composer Gordon Mizzi for solo guitar is being made available to the public for the first time. Song of the Sea The Music of Gordon Mizzi Volume One is the first of two albums which are available from Mel Bay Publications. The title is taken from the CD Song of the Sea Carlos Bonell Plays Gordon Mizzi recorded by Carlos Bonell one of today's most celebrated guitarists and which is available fromSpearhead Music. This album has been received with critical acclaim and broadcasted by leading radio stations including the Cowan Collection BBC Radio 3. The critic Robert Matthew Walker writing in Musical Opinion Britain'soldest classical music magazine in May -June 2007 said in a review of a concert in London: Gordon Mizzi's music is 'fascinating and inventive.' His music is performed by leading guitarists all over the world. In this music wefind a truly inspired creativity and diversity. This album draws on a wide range of influences from Gordon Mizzi's musical canvas from the Maltese Variations of a Maltese Theme to the Hispanic Tango and Habanera to otherEuropean influences such as the Two Anthem Studies Song of the Sea Madliena Sonata which has four movements Morning Hymn Sun Dance Evening Song and Serenade and the haunting beauty of the Sonata for Six Mute Swans with threemovements Flying South In the Bay and Lament of the Swans.

The Art of Acoustic Blues Guitar - The Basics. Whether your favourite blues guitarist is Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Blind Blake, John Lee Hooker, Big Bill Broonzy, or Mississippi John Hurt, studying the basic techniques presented in this program is the first step toward being able to capture the essence of their traditional styles. In this book, Woody Mann shows you practical ways to develop fundamental technique and offers you insights into the musical logic of blues guitar. Woody walks you through each song, explaining the chord positions and picking techniques. He teaches blues in the keys of D, G, C, E, and A, presenting a wide selection of classic blues songs and instrumentals from the masters of blues guitar. Included in this program are the basics of the Delta blues of Robert Johnson, the ragtime style of Blind Blake (the man with the piano-playing guitar), and the music of Big Bill Broonzy, Memphis Minnie, Willie Walker, and Willie Moore. Each song illustrates how solo players approach the guitar like a piano, playing melodies and bass lines simultaneously. Developing this independent two-line picking technique enables you to get the feel, syncopation, and subtleties of the music. The songs in themselves are studies in acoustic blues technique and present the authentic elements of the acoustic blues sound and style including blues technique and ways to play off of the chords and improvise within a song. This program is recommended for beginning acoustic blues guitarists as well as electric guitarists and acoustic fingerstyle guitarists of all levels who would like to go beyond pattern picking and develop a more dynamic and syncopated sound. Woody Mann had his first schooling as a teenager in the living room of Rev. Gary Davis, the now legendary gospel and ragtime guitarist. Mann soon went on to perform and record with blues masters Son House and Bukka White as well as contemporary innovators including John Fahey. He has recorded extensively, performed throughout the world, and is widely recognized as one of the world's leading teachers and transcribers of acoustic blues music, having taught countless guitarists through his popular books and videos.

In the early 1700s, Bach's chorales enchanted listeners with their inventive harmonies, chromaticism, contrapuntal motion, and changes of tonal center. Since that time, music students the world over have studied the chorales as a paragon of 'common practice' harmony and voice leading. And by virtue of their sublime beauty, musicians continue to perform the chorales to this day. The four-part texture of the chorales can make their performance on guitar ? with its fingering limitations ? somewhat problematic. But by sometimes thinning the texture to three or two parts, and sometimes inverting the lower parts (allowing the alto or tenor to temporarily serve as the bass), we've created easy-to-play classical guitar solos that capture all the interest and beauty of Bach's original compositions.

The Jazz Guitar Omnibook features transcriptions for all C instruments of solos as played by some of the world's leading jazz artists. Now all C instrumentalists - not just guitarists - can enjoy playing these fantastic versions! This combbound collection includes 30 songs: Airegin (Wes Montgomery) · Freight Trane (Kenny Burrell) · Honeysuckle Rose (Django Reinhardt) · Just Friends (Pat Martino) · My Funny Valentine (Jim Hall) · Night and Day (Joe Pass) · On Green Dolphin Street (Barney Kessel) · Rose Room (Charlie Christian) · Royal Garden Blues (Herb Ellis) · Stella by Starlight (Jimmy Raney) · What Is This Thing Called Love? (Grant Green) · Yardbird Suite (Tal Farlow) · and more. Also includes guitar tab and a guitar notation guide. Airegin Autumn Leaves Bloomdido Body And Soul Conception The Cooker Freight Trane Honeysuckle Rose I'm Old Fashioned In Your Own Sweet Way Just Friends Lady Bird Lazy Bird Lover, Come Back To Me Marionette Move My Funny Valentine Night And Day On Green Dolphin Street Rose Room Royal Garden Blues Scrapple From The Apple Softly As In A Morning Sunrise The Song Is You Stella By Starlight There Will Never Be Another You Unit 7 What Is This Thing Called Love? Yardbird Suite You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To / Instrument en mib / Hal Leonard

House of Blues Learn to Play Series-House of Blues and The Rock House Method® join together to bring you this unique and comprehensive beginner Metal method. Jam-packed with the fundemental techniques you need to develop the skills to play any style of metal.World renowned instructor/guitarist John McCarthy guides you step-by-step through easy to learn metal power chords complete classic and modern metal rhythms his very own speed demon exercises pentatonic death scales and thedemonic half step. You will learn bends pull-offs and hammer-ons all key components of effective lead playing. It is a must have for aspiring metal guitar players!Each Rock House product includes free lifetime membershipto Rock House's online lesson support system. Enhance your learning experience links with instructors download backing tracks access message boards and much more. You'll connect with a community of musicians around the worldlearning to play music using The Rock House Method.

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

One of the most intriguing thoughtful and distinctive of today's modern guitar masters gives you an in-depth guide to his approach style and perspective in this very special DVD presentation.Eric Johnson took the guitar world by storm with the release of his albums Tones and Ah Via Musicom. His style combines all the technical skill of the Los Angeles MIT generation but with a delicacy and taste that simultaneously mirrors such legends as Hendrix Chet Aitkins and Dave Gilmour.This DVD tutorial brings you two products in one! Part 1 features Eric sharing his 10 'must know' musical concepts in an intimate one-to-one format. Discover the techniquesthat have contributed to his remarkable style including his unique perspectives on chords lead playing improvisation and song writing.Part 2 is something very special - a full performance of eight never-before-heard songs alongside Chris Maresh and Tommy Taylor! Multiple widescreen camera angles and fantastic audio get you closer than ever before to the jaw-dropping guitar playing of this unique star.

Par RODMANN BERTINO. Gypsy Jazz (sometimes known as Jazz-Manouche) is the first unique style of jazz music originating from Europe. It has influences that stem from; Hungarian Czardas; French musette waltzes; Spanish flamenco; and, of course, the music of the Sinti. It was originally played exclusively by Sinti musicians in a swing style. Django Reinhardt, the most renowned player of Gypsy Jazz, made it popular throughout the world with his ground-breaking techniques. To this day countless guitarists are influenced by the music and personality of Django Reinhardt. In Sinti culture, the techniques of playing Gypsy Jazz are traditionally passed down orally from generation to generation without ever being written down. It is because of this that musicians who are not Sinti often misunderstand the essence of this distinctly intriguing and fascinating music. The need for an authentic, written introduction to Gypsy Jazz guitar inspired Bertino Rodmann, a performing Gypsy Jazz guitarist from Frankfurt, Germany, to create this written method for Gypsy Jazz Guitar. Using the best examples of all the best  performances, past and present, as well as showcasing the typical aspects of rhythm and lead guitar in Gypsy Jazz, his book aims to develop the reader?s respect for the ancient traditions of the Sinti and their music and bring this to a wider culture.   Contents: Rhythm Guitar: Comping | La Pompe-rhythm | Dead notes | Gypsychords | Voicings | Blues cadence | Chord substitution Solo Guitar: Reststroke picking | Arpeggio picking | Sweptstroke picking | Scales | Arpeggios | Solo licks Transcriptions: Blues Clair (Django Reinhardt) | Blues en mineur (Reinhardt/Grapelli) | Douce Ambiance (Django Reinhardt) | Good times (Bertino Rodmann) | Minor Swing (Reinhardt/Grapelli) | Swing 48 (Django Reinhardt) | Valse à Bertino (Bertino Rodmann)   / Methods