Jazz Treasures for Solo Guitar PDF. 35 chord melody arrangements in standard notation and tab. The thirty-five challenging chord melody arrangements in this book come from some of the finest composers of the 20th century, and are well-known by musicians and singers. Playing these arrangements will show you new chords, the logic of bass lines, and inner moving voices in chord progressions. The Series of books are very accurate and rich arrangements of the great jazz classics from the 20’s through the 50’s. Here’s what they are not. They are NOT instructional books. They are NOT play along with...

Paul Musso Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar PDF. Paul Musso has written an excellent method for learning how to play walking bass lines over jazz and blues progressions. Mr. Musso presents the material well, laying out exercises in a step-by-step approach that allows you to apply the technique immediately to common chord progressions. The example songs he uses are some great jazz standards, but after going through the book you’ll be able to walk over any tune. Highly recommended “Teaching Your Guitar to Walk” to all guitarists who want to enhance their knowledge of their instrument! A very well-written book teaching...

Dave Limina Accelerate Your Keyboard Playing download. In Accelerate Your Keyboard Playing, keyboard guru Dave Limina shares his proven method for improving the fundamental skills required to build your harmonic, melodic, and rhythmic vocabulary. The DVD offers easy-to-understand exercises and demonstrations that can be applied to all levels and styles. Includes scale and blues techniques, ear training, rock and blues phrasing, two-hand grooves for funk, Texas shuffle, roots-rock, Latin styles, as well as jazz voicings and rhythms. Clear and detailed instruction is given both on-screen and in the accompanying 80-page booklet. This DVD is best viewed, not as a...

Ernie Hawkins Gospel Guitar Of Rev. Gary Davis PDF. The authentic blind-seer. He is a genius with a brightly burning spirit, enormous musical intelligence, technical brilliance, an encyclopedic memory, driving passion, deep faith, a raunchy and gracious sense of humor. A mystic. He is an icon of the style of guitar he was born into, known today as the Piedmont blues. Through players of the first half of the twentieth century like Alfred Shultz, Mose Ranger, Merle Travis, and Chet Atkins, this is the signature American fingerpicking style that would so deeply inform the country, folk, blues and even...

Tom Kolb Soloing Strategies for Guitar PDF. Expand your improvisational horizons with this incredible resource for all guitarists! Soloing Strategies for Guitar explores a variety of improvisational concepts and techniques, backed up with fingering patterns, exercises, and lick examples galore. In addition, each chapter includes several extended solos (in the styles of rock, blues, funk, jazz, and country) based entirely on the techniques brought forth in each lesson. Furthermore, each chapter features Quick Theory Tutorials that you can refer to if you need to brush up on your music theory. You’ll also find a section called Tone Tips that...

Brad Carlton’s Guitar Lab Slash Chord Progressions. Slash chords are an effective way of notating inversions of triads, extended harmonies and tension oriented sonorities. The concept of a triad over a bass note serves not only in the solo guitar realm, but also in an ensemble situation in which the bass note is played by the bass player thus freeing up the guitarist both technically and texturally to use major or minor triads in various inversions as a springboard for melodic fills. Another added benefit of viewing harmony via slash chords is the ease of determining which scales to...

Herb Ellis Jazz Guitar Method Swing Blues PDF. Mitchell Herbert “Herb” Ellis was an American jazz guitarist. Perhaps best known for his 1950s membership in the trio of pianist Oscar Peterson, Ellis was also a staple of west-coast studio recording sessions, and was described by critic Scott Yanow as “an excellent bop-based guitarist with a slight country twang to his sound.” The Herb Ellis Jazz Guitar Method is designed to take the mystery out of playing jazz guitar. Herb teaches single-note improvisation through a system of simple guitaristic ‘shapes’ that are derived from chord fingerings you already know. If...

Marco Minnemann Extreme Drumming download free. Marco Minnemann has exploded onto the drumming scene with his amazing technique and cutting edge extreme “interdependence” skills. Listen carefully as Marco reveals many of his drumming secrets that have propelled him into the musical stratosphere. Marco performs over ten incredible tracks and five live band performances from his best selling CDs. The band features stellar musicians Steve Hamilton on piano from Bill Bruford’s EARTHWORKS, and legendary bassist Wolfgang Schmid of PASSPORT. Never before has a drummer pushed the limits of independence, creativity, style & groove as Marco has. Seeing is believing, a...

Guitar Play-Along Volume 16 Jazz PDF. This interactive and easy-to-follow method will have you playing your favourite Jazz standards in no time! All you have to do is follow the Tablature notation, listen to the demonstrations on the accompanying CD, and then start playing along to the high-quality backing tracks. Furthermore, if you are a Mac or PC user, the CD is enhanced so you can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing the pitch! You don’t need a background in theory to enjoy these. The songs sound right, because they are right and they feel right. There’s...

Fred Sokolow The Gershwin Songbook. George and Ira Gershwin’s beautiful songs are timeless jazz standards, and they sound great on guitar. In this dvd, Fred plays and teaches six complete Gershwin arrangements, including guitar backup (for singing) and instrumental chord solos for each tune. Just for fun, Fred includes the rarely-heard introductory verses to the songs, as well as ad-lib instrumental solos. After playing each tune, Fred gives you a rundown on the arrangement, going over tricky spots and analyzing the chord progression and substitutions. Then he replays it slower, on a split screen with close-ups of both hands....