Improvising Jazz Bass PDF composed by Richard Laird. Tunes and exercises in the styles of Ron Carter, Stanley Clarke, Jaco Pastorius, and others presented to provide a well-rounded improvisational background. Plus professional insights into jazz scales, rhythms, tonal concepts, equipment, and more. Includes a bibliography and discography. Tells you all you need to know in order to play a variety of contemporary styles successfully. Important chapters on Fundamentals of Technique, Positioning, Scales, Making a Walking Bass Line, Developing an Idea and much more. Richard Laird has performed throughout the world with many of the leading jazz artists of today...

Drumeo Edge Courses Beginner 2 download. Stop wasting your practice time on random drum lessons. With carefully designed video courses featuring the best teachers in the world, you’ll always know exactly what to work on for maximum results. Supercharge your drumming practice. Download also Drumeo Edge Courses Beginner 1. Play your favorite songs on the drums. Nothing is better than playing to real music! So you’ll love play-alongs for applying your new skills to songs – plus detailed song breakdowns for music by popular bands of all eras and styles. Drumeo Edge is GUARANTEED to help you learn the...

Fred Sokolow Jazz Chord Solos For Beginners. If you love old standards like Georgia On My Mind and Ain’t Misbehavin’ but always thought that only advanced guitarists could play jazz, you’ll love Fred’s easy-to-play jazz chord solos. In this DVD, you’ll learn six timeless tunes from start to finish: how to play backup while you sing them, and how to play a beautiful chord-melody solo/instrumental for each song. The tunes are arranged for beginners: there are no difficult chords, and Fred goes over the tricky spots in each tune before playing it… then you’ll watch him replay the song,...

Charlie Byrd Contemporary Acoustic Jazz Guitar free download. Charlie is generally recognized as the founding father of nylon string jazz guitar. He was one of the original Great Guitars that recorded on Concord (along with Herb Ellis and Barney Kessel) and is an “elder statesman” of the instrument. This video is full of Charlie doing what made him famous. Taking his time, he begins with a discussion of general classical-style technique, hammers and pulloffs, trills, and right hand fingerstyle warmups. The examples are liberally sprinkled with lovely chordal passages and licks. Other subjects that Charlie covers include blues playing,...

Fred Sokolow Jazz Standards for Beginners. If you love old standards like Autumn Leaves and Moonglow, but always thought only advanced guitarists could play jazz, you’ll love Fred’s easy-to-play jazz chord solos. In this lesson, you’ll learn six timeless tunes from start to finish: how to play backup while you sing them, and how to play a beautiful chord melody solo/instrumental for each song. The tunes are arranged for beginners, with very few difficult chords. Fred plays and sings each song, then goes over the tricky spots in each tune before playing it slower, on a split screen with...

Dave Weckl Ultimate Play Along Level 1 Volume 2 PDF. This book/CD package has been developed so that the beginning to intermediate drummer can practice in a wide range of styles along with all-star musicians Mike Stern on guitar and John Patitucci on bass. The styles covered include straight eighths, shuffle (blues), sixteenth-note feel, hip-hop (jazz funk), pop ballad, reggae (shuffle), and rock. Contains perforated ‘road map’ charts for each tune. Recommended as a really good book for starters. For those of you who wish to really solidify your playing. Very comprehensive and the quality of songs is exceptional...

Robbie Calvo Sweet Notes. Most of us have been taught to solo and improvise by learning how to play specific scale patterns over certain chords and progressions. The classic example of this is the minor pentatonic scale, which we are told works beautifully over any I IV V progression. And sure enough, millions of guitar players blow minor pentatonic scales incessantly without worrying about the ‘chord changes.’ For the most part, those notes do indeed work BUT there’s still something missing. Where are those ‘sweet notes’ that our guitar heroes are playing? Sweet Notes to the rescue! The next...

Corey Christiansen Bebop Blues PDF. Bebop Blues book introduces the jazz language to the intermediate guitarist who already has a basic knowledge of the blues. Many guitarists are familiar with basic twelve-bar blues progressions and how to solo over this form using minor pentatonic scales, blues scales, and common blues licks. The material presented in this book will build on these basic blues playing concepts of adding color, expression, and sophistication to their music. The examples and exercises included here are easy to understand and enjoyable to play. Topics such as modes, bebop scales, enclosing (targeting), jazz comping, and...

Robin Nolan The Gypsy Jazz Volume 1 PDF. This book and CD was the first one I wrote and is the best place to start playing Gypsy Jazz. I put 11 of THE most played and famous Django and Gypsy Jazz standards in there so as to get you ready for a jam session anywhere. Even before it went to print I had my brother Kevin learn these tunes the way I laid them out in the book and it worked a treat! This is a great book for anyone who wants to get into Gypsy Guitar,if you can...

Richard Scheufler Slap and Funky download free. This course focuses on learning to play the bass guitar. Richard Scheufler introduces slap techniques, will tell you about the various nuances, methods and secrets. Very interesting and informative material. Beginners and advanced players will catch something new and helpful. Richard Scheufler – a multi-instrumentalist, solo singer, composer, music arranger, teacher and producer. He is one of the most significant personalities of the contemporary Czech, but also European music scene. Richard’s music represents a mixture of various music styles including funk, Pop, Rock, modern jazz, hardcore and its fusion with the classical...