David Baker How to Play Bebop Volume 1 PDF. A three volume series that includes the scales, chords and modes necessary to play bebop music. A great introduction to a style that is most influential in today’s music. The first volume includes scales, chords and modes most commonly used in bebop and other musical styles. In volume 1 of the series he describes the bebop dominant and major scales scales are and also gives you some rules for using the scales to construct bebop lines. Some of this is quite technical and may put some readers off, but if...

Frank Briggs Complete Modern Drum Set download free. Addressing a multitude of styles such as jazz, Latin, rock, R&B, African and more, Frank Briggs presents masterful performances and concepts to guide your playing to a higher plane while improving your technique and raising your awareness of cutting edge concepts such as metric modulation, displaced beats, polyrhythms, and more. This DVD features complete performances of Red Moon, Home, Along the Mohawk, Sketch/Electric and more. It includes over 115 minutes of drumming and is the perfect companion to the Complete Modern Drum Set Book (nearly every page in the book is...

Bruce Buckingham Chord-Melody Guitar PDF. A Guide to Combining Chords and Melody to Create Solo Arrangements in Jazz and Pop Styles. Master the art of blending melody and harmony on the guitar with this book/CD pack. It includes in-depth studies of chords and chord melodies as well as a CD containing 90 demonstration tracks. Lessons include: the five patterns; chord shells; inversions; voice leading; cadences; diminished chords; and more. If you’re looking for beginners book on chord melodies look elsewhere. The theory involved is of an intermediate (at least) nature. If on the other hand you are an intermediate...

Jim Nichols Fingerstyle Jazz DVD download. In this DVD, Jim shares his insight to jazz improvising through common chord changes as well as an original blues piece. Jim’s world-class musicianship, technique and style make this a rare opportunity for all students of the guitar. San Francisco based guitarist Jim Nichols’ early years were influenced by Merle Travis and Chet Atkins. His later interest in jazz created a melting pot of styles and techniques that created one of the finest fingerstyle guitarists to ever walk the planet. Jim Nichols has been a part of the jazz guitar scene for over...

Jamey Aebersold Jazz Play-A-Long Volume 36, 37, 38, 39, 40 PDF download. Possession of this collection will enable any musician, independently of level and experience in jazz improvisation mastery, learn the basic styles and genres of jazz, and eventually become a true expert in this. Information for reference (for those who do not know): Jamey Aebersold Jazz Play-A-Long – the world’s best collections of exercises for jazz musicians. Volume 36 – Bebop And Beyond. Intermediate/Advanced. Includes 8 tunes by a variety of jazz greats that have been recorded on many records in the past 40 years and songs by...

Aaron Gilmartin Easy Steps to Bossa Nova Guitar DVD. The distinctive sound of Brazilian bossa nova guitar has permeated the musical landscape for fifty years, influencing singers, instrumentalists and songwriters throughout the world. Based on a melding of jazz voicings and samba rhythms, this gently swinging fingerpicking-based style will bring new colors and rhythms to all your guitar accompaniments and solos. Aaron Gilmartin builds your bossa nova guitar technique step-by-step, providing chordal exercises, melodic passages and syncopated picking along with invaluable guitar advice and musical knowledge. He opens the lesson with his original song, Hold the Place, based around...

50 Essential Bebop Heads Arranged For Guitar PDF. The best lines of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonius Monk, and many more. The tunes selected for this compilation represent the most vital and challenging pieces within the bebop vocabulary. For guitarists, working out the lines of bebop innovators like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis has meant exhaustive hours of memorization and fingering perplexities. With the aid of tablature, this book offers the most efficient performance positions for conquering the almighty bop heads. Of course, the “best” fingerings for bebop tunes can be a subjective topic. Although careful consideration...

Effortless Guitar Rhythm Styles and Techniques DVD. A huge percentage of what all professional guitar players play is rhythm guitar. Some of the greatest musicians of all time were also amazing accompanists: Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen, Peter Townsend, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughn, John Mayer and The Edge, to name just a few. Effortless Rhythm Guitar starts with developing the most fundamental of musical essentials – a good sense of time and feel, moves on to dozens more musical concepts. This DVD will serve any aspiring rhythm guitarist! You’ll learn about: Developing a strong rhythmic feel Right hand...

John Zaradin Jazz for the Classical Guitar PDF. A superb selection of jazz favourites arranged for classical guitar by John Zaradin. These arrangements provide the classical guitar players with an opportunity to add an impressive collection of jazz standards to their repertoire. The pieces are arranged as solos, offering the player scope to develop individual improvisations. Each selection is helpfully annotated with playing hints. John Zaradin is Europe’s foremost player of classical Brazilian guitar music. His early training at the Royal College of Music and the Paris Conservatoire has combined with his deep involvement and love of the music...

Robert Brown Jazz Guitar Concepts PDF. Basix. Learning jazz guitar is fun and easy with this unique step-by-step method. This thorough approach to applying scales and modes to improvisation includes exercises and licks in standard music notation and TAB, easy-to-read scale diagrams, and basic theory lessons. The CD includes performances of the exercises. Basix presumes the ready have some guitar theory basics so it does not waste reader’s time with elementary info. The book very clearly described scale created and proper fingering technique. It next illustrates how chords are construction. Unlike that books, ‘Jazz Guitar Concepts’ details most used...