Takes you from the fundamentals of fingerpicking to five authentic blues tunes. With graded exercises, illustrated tips, plus standard notation and tablature. This is a great book because it breaks down the process of learning acoustic (fingerstyle) blues step-by-step, and shows you how to play the blues in the old Mississippi-blues and other related styles.

Joseph P Befumo - Boxes Beyond the Blues: A Pattern Approach to Jazz Improvisation. Many guitarists begin by learning a few ubiquitous ‘blues boxes’,and indeed,this approach has sufficed for many great musicians. Unfortunately,this approach can prove crippling if the player wishes to move beyond the blues,and into the world of jazz and fusion.

Craig Lauritsen has made one more excellent drumming book! This book is perfect for every drummer. With this excellent book you can teach yourself how to play, and the cd helps to ensure you are playing every note properly!!! A valuable source of additional beats and fills in 10 of the most popular drumming styles.

Getting Into Guitar Improvising: A Systematic Approach to Soloing. For all guitarists interested in improvising, the material in this method can apply to any style of music. This integrated approach to soloing provides numerous musical examples promotes an understanding of the theory behind improvising, and also promotes better visualization of shapes on the fingerboard through the use of fingerboard diagrams.

"Strum It" was created to get guitar students and self-taught guitarists playing along with their favorite songs. The songs are arranged using their original keys in lead sheet format, and include the chords for each song, beginning to end. Perfect for players who want to play along with the original recordings, the melody and lyrics are also shown to help players keep their spot and to sing along. Strum It does not include tablature, or the difficult solo passages from the original recordings.

Duke Ellington For Jazz Guitar - 15 sensational songs. A cool solo guitar collection of 15 Ellington classics! The arrangements are based on the orchestral recordings, which results in melodic music with single-note lines and hip chord voicings that blend seamlessly. Don't miss a chance.

Expand your chord-melody chops with these outstanding jazz phrases by Ron Eschete! He covers: chord substitutions, chromatic movements, contrary motion, pedal tones, inner-voice movements, reharmonization techniques, and much more. The book includes standard notation and tablature, and the CD features 39 helpful demo tracks. Very useful book because of all the great ideas that can be extracted for intros and endings in a jazz setting.

The Strum It! series lets players strum the chords (and sing along) with their favorite hits. Each song has been selected because it can be played with regular open chords, barre chords, or other moveable chord types. Guitarists can simply play the rhythm, or play and sing along through the entire song. All songs are shown in their original keys complete with chords, strum patterns, melody and lyrics. This book includes 27 songs.

New York City bassist and teacher Patrick Pfeiffer has created a regimen that will teach the developing bassist how to become truly great, through practice, discipline, and perseverance. But who said it has to be boring? Daily Grooves for Bass is jam-packed with a different groove for every day of the year and these funky, hip, and inspiring exercises will get newcomers reading and playing grooves worthy of any bassist’s repertoire.