Paul Howard Guitar Roots Swing PDF. The ultimate starter book for players looking to learn the classic guitar style that’s once again so popular. Learn swing progressions and forms, as well as how to construct a swing guitar solo, and so much more. This is the only book ever needed to get swingin’ right away! If you’ve always wanted to add swing to your list of playing styles but never knew where to begin, Guitar Roots: Swing is the book for you! Performer and teacher Paul Howard leads you through the elements that will result in an authentic swing...

Peter Erskine Drum Concepts and Techniques PDF. Peter Erskine is a world-renowned jazz/fusion drummer. This book on Erskine’s concepts and techniques behind jazz drumming is for the beginning to intermediate drummer and covers topics like drum set up, beats, brushes, phrasing, reading, etc. Includes a full discography of Erskine’s performances. Peter Erskine: “In this book, I am going to share my drumming experiences and philosophies with you. We shall explore all of the rhythmic influences that make up my understanding of music – in other words, my drumming vocabulary and techniques. Book contents: Autobiography Setup of the drums Ride...

Anthony Vitti Accelerate Your Bass Playing DVD download. This DVD will help take your playing to the next level. Professor Anthony Vitti shares his proven method for improving the fundamental skills required to freely express yourself on the bass in many musical styles. Professor Vitti is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music and has been teaching there since 1990. He is known for his contemporary style of playing, particularly for knowledge and instruction in slap bass, fingerstyle R&B, and sightreading. He has played all along the East Coast with a variety of artists including Sammy Davis, Jr.,...

Andreas Oberg Jazz Combustion Volume 1, 2. Jazz guitar is a cruel mistress. After spending years learning and adding all of the genre’s theories and techniques to your arsenal, you’re still left with the challenge of putting it all together into a cohesive statement when it’s time to step up and solo or comp behind a vocalist or soloist. Jazz Combustion offers up a fresh and insightful approach for comping and improvising innovative solos. By using real world examples, Jazz Combustion breaks down higher improvisational concepts such as chord voice selection, chordal movement, target tones, chord substitution, motifs, pacing,...

Colin Woolway’s Drumsense. In this DVD, drummer Colin Woolway gives absolute beginners the chance to learn basic rock drumming starting with simple beats and building up to fairly difficult four way co-ordination. It includes a section on ‘fill ins’ which uses a unique system of subdividing and phrasing. The DVD will show the student how to move around the kit using toms and cymbals, employing the now famous ‘Drumsense’ teaching technique. There is also a section on ‘beginners’ jazz’ and hi-hat timekeeping, where you will use easy-to-learn phrases to build up an ability to play comfortably in rock and...

Jon Liebman Bass Aerobics PDF. Bass Builders. Perfect for beginning to advanced players, this book with online audio access by world-renowned bassist and educator Jon Liebman provides a 52-week, one-exercise-per-week workout program for developing, improving and maintaining bass guitar technique. Liebman teaches: chromatics; scales & arpeggios; string-crossing and advanced patterns; slapping & popping; and more all in styles ranging from rock, funk and R&B to jazz, disco, reggae and more. Bassists using Bass Aerobics will benefit from increased speed, improved dexterity, better accuracy and heightened coordination not to mention an awesome new groove vocabulary! The accompanying online audio contains...

Pat Donohue Rags To Rock. Advanced Fingerstyle Guitar Solos. Are you interested in challenging, difficult and advanced fingerstyle solos that stretch from a New Orleans standard to a Sonny Rollins’s jazz classic to a Booker T. & The M.G.s rock hit? If so, then this video lesson is for you. Pat Donohue has prepared a one hour and forty minute lesson that presents six great arrangements. Pat best described his approach: “For me, folk and jazz have always been closely related. They both evolved through the idiosyncrasies of basically unschooled but extremely talented musicians who, playing from the heart,...

Fingerstyle Guitar Standards PDF: 15 Classic Songs Arranged for Solo Guitar. Bill Piburn is a wonderful arranger. He has a true gift for creating solo guitar arrangements that capture the essence of the song and exploit the guitar as an instrument. Lots of great and familiar tunes are here, so these would be excellent choices for entertaining listeners that like good stuff they have heard before, not the latest fancy tapping, etc. Great selection of songs. The book is for the intermediate to advanced player. Contains tablature as well as standard notation. The CD is great to listen to...

The Bride’s Wedding Music Collection PDF. A great collection of popular, classical and sacred songs for wedding musicians or engaged couples who are planning their service. Over 40 categorized songs, plus a website to hear audio clips! Choosing the perfect wedding music has never been easier! Over 40 selections for your perfect ceremony, including preludes and processionals, recessionals, pop songs, country songs, contemporary christian songs, hyms and sacred songs. This book contains a wide variety of wedding music, from traditional to contemporary. Songs include: Allegro Maestoso Angel Bless The Broken Road Canon In D Dawn Everything Fanfare Rondeau Forever...

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...