Ramon Ricker Technique Development in Fourths for Jazz Improvisation PDF. For the advanced player. Sixty pages of reading and exercises that will give a good understanding of the interval’s uses and expand the musician’s harmonic and melodic vocabulary. In the Ramon Ricker Jazz Improvisation Series. This book for advanced player – the musician who wishes to add yet another harmonic dimension to his improvisations. This book does not take the place of other, more comprehensive books on jazz improvisation. It is a supplement, another tool to aid and expand the serious student’s harmonic and melodic vocabulary. Its purpose is...

Garwood Whaley Primary Handbook For Snare Drum PDF. A beginning method with Play-Along CD. A brand new edition of this internationally acclaimed classic snare drum method with play-along audio. This re-engraved comprehensive and musical method includes reading studies, duets, stick control exercises, multiple drum studies, rudiments and student composition assignments. Beginner through intermediate level. You don’t have to be a snare drummer in a marching band to benefit from the exercises in this book. All drummers have to know how to count rythym/beats and these exercises help develop that skill very well. It is definitely worthwhile to have the...

The Very Best of Fingerstyle Guitar PDF. The Very Best of Fingerstyle Guitar: 25 Songs Arranged for Solo Guitar in Standard Notation and Tablature. An essential collection for all fingerstyle guitarists, this book contains 25 songs in a variety of musical styles. The arrangements are great! It’s worth the practice time to learn these lovely pieces. You can really impress friends with these. Being able to hear each song played on the enclosed cd is the best. If you like the way it sounds start learning it. This is a really good book. It gives you all songs from...

Ulli Bogershausen Easy Fingerstyle Volume 2 PDF. 15 melodic tunes for solo guitar. With this edition Ulli Bögershausen follows up the success of the first volume of “Easy Fingerstyle”. The resulting 14 melodious pieces with song character range from easy to fairly advanced. The overall degree of difficulty is slightly higher than in the first volume, in order to present players who have already worked their way through the previous pieces with a bit of challenge. One of the compositions from the first volume, “Percussive Groove”, has in the meantime developed into a fully-fledged concert piece, which Bögershausen has...

Paul Hanson Shred Guitar PDF. A carefully planned and systematic approach to fretboard mastery, Shred Guitar is actually two books in one. The first half of the book, “Shred Guitar,” is based around 10 popular rock chord progressions with full play-along tracks included on the accompanying CD. The second half of the book, “The Practical Guide to Harmony and Theory,” is a guitar theory reference that contains 17 units of detailed information that will be useful to all guitarists. Highly recommended for intermediate guitarists of all stripes. Simply put, a great guide to improvisation posing as a book on...

Bruce Buckingham Latin Guitar PDF. Tons of more advanced chord voicings there so you might want to be playing the guitar for a while. No need of virtuosistic skills, though. It is about internalizing the rhythms and becoming familiar with the typical chords of latin music. After mastering this book, you will be ready to read a bossa nova song-book and play the tunes with decent strumming patterns. It might help your cha-cha jams, too. The essential guide to Brazilian and Afro-Cuban rhythms, covering Bossa Nova, Samba, Partido Alto, Baião, Bolero, Cha Cha, Mambo and Nanigo 6/8. Each section...

100 Jazz and Blues Greats PDF. One hundred of the world’s favourite jazz and blues classics. Arranged for piano/vocal with full lyrics and chord symbols. An original collection of one of the classic jazz and blues favourites of this century. Includes titles such as “Blue And Sentimental”, “Caravan”, “The Lady Sings the Blues”, “Let’s Get Away From It All”, “One note Samba”, “Round Midnight” and “That Ole Devil Called Love” plus many more which make this an indispensable addition to the musician’s library. Songs include: A Night In Tunisia A Sunday Kind Of Love A Taste Of Honey Adios...

David Burge Perfect Pitch Ear Training SuperCourse with Handbook (PDF). Learn to recognize EXACT tones – BY EAR! The #1 best-selling ear training method, as seen in major music magazines for 20 years and verified by research at two leading universities.  The Perfect Pitch Ear Training SuperCourse contains 8 audio CDs (or cassettes) plus easy handbook. You will learn the fascinating secrets behind the legendary ability of Perfect Pitch – the prized “super ear” of the world’s greatest musicians, the master key that enables you to: recognize EXACT tones and chords – BY EAR! sing correct tones – without...

John Kiefer J. S. Bach for Electric Guitar PDF. Unlike many Bach editions for guitar, these transcriptions are meant to be performed using a pick. Although a few of the pieces may be played on a standard acoustic guitar, most require an electric guitar or a guitar with a cutaway. All pieces are in the original keys and their ranges may require notes as high as the twenty-second fret. Written in notation and tablature, these six pieces make great sight reading exercises. The included CD will prove an asset in learning these often challenging pieces. Songs include: Badinerie Praeludium...

B.B. King Anthology PDF. Guitar Recorded Versions. The All Music Guide praises B.B. King in no uncertain terms as “the single most important electric guitarist of the last half century.” This outstanding book in our Guitar Recorded Versions series provides note-for-note transcriptions with tab for 35 hits from this living legend from 1950 to 2000. There are 35 songs covered in the Anthology, spanning B.B King’s entire career, including many of his classic tracks. Unfortunately there is no discography of the songs – which would have made obtaining the recordings much easier.  If you’re looking for an easy play...