Piano Play-Along Volume 13 Yuletide Favorites PDF. With these book/CD collections, piano and keyboard players will be able to practice and perform with professional-sounding accompaniments. Containing eight songs each, the books feature new engravings, with a separate vocal staff, plus guitar frames, so players and their friends can sing or strum along. The CDs feature two tracks for each tune: a full performance for listening, and a separate backing track that lets players take the lead on keyboard. The high-quality, sound-alike accompaniments exactly match the printed music. Each book/CD pack features cream-of-the-crop songs of the genre. Songs include: Angels...

Don Latarski Practical Theory for Guitar PDF. A Player’s Guide to Essential Music Theory in Words, Music, Tablature, and Sound. A guitar player’s guide to music theory. This book is a complete theory course with recorded examples that put everything in an applicable, musical context. The recording includes all the musical examples and play-along tracks. Not just another “how to play” book, this one is concise with lots information on guitar theory and especially helpful if you want to learn improvisational techniques. This is an excellent book, but be forewarned it is not for beginners. You should have a...

Chuck Kerrigan Rap Beats On The Drum Set PDF. Rap music has become a valid and exciting part of today’s music. Underlying the “Rap” of the front person, is the drum pattern-A most important and integral part of the music. An understanding and mastery of these rap rhythms should be a part of every sincere drummer’s repertoire. Chuck Kerrigan has been playing drums since the age of 14. He has played Rock, Funk, Jazz-Rock, Jazz, Country-Rock, Big Band and with pop groups for over 20 years. He attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he studied with Alan...

Paul Mehling – Learn To Play Django-Style Gypsy Jazz Guitar Volume 2 Soloing. They don’t call it “hot guitar” for nothing! The driving style pioneered by Django Reinhardt and other Gypsy players became one of the dominant sounds in jazz during the thirties and forties, and its influence is still strongly felt today. Paul Mehling knows the style as well as anyone, and he takes it apart in detail for the learning player. A band won’t swing without a strong rhythm section, and the powerful guitar accompaniment that typifies the Gypsy style is the foundation of this terrific lesson....

Andy LaVerne Learn to Play Jazz Piano Standards DVD download. A challenging and rewarding learning experience for all proficient Jazz pianists who want to broaden their vocabulary and improvise more creatively, based around six stunning standards. Andy LaVerne illuminates the chord changes, voicings, embellishments and improvisational ideas that make the standards come to life. You’ll begin by learning the basic changes, before moving into more complex renditions, demonstrated at half-speed so that you won’t miss a note. Each song is harmonically dissected, opening up huge potentials in reharmonisation and substitution, as well as providing a solid guide for your...

Jamey Aebersold Jazz Play-A-Long Volume 66, 67, 68, 69, 70 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 66 – Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life. Intermediate. Billy Strayhorn is one of the best-loved, yet underrated composers of jazz. His famous collaborations with and for The Duke Ellington Band have...

Barrett Tagliarino Chord Tone Soloing PDF. A Guitarist’s Guide to Melodic Improvising in Any Style. Learn how the professionals create monster solos with this easy-to-use book/CD pack! The accompanying CD includes 68 tracks of exercises, licks, solo examples, and play-alongs. Includes all necessary foundation materials; detailed instructions on how and what to practice; essential concepts for players at every level; developing your real-time melodic reflexes; soloing over any progression in any style of music; using chords as an endless source of ideas; and more. This book is the advanced user manual for your guitar. If you already know the...

Jazz Piano Solos Volume 5 Cool Jazz PDF. Cool Jazz contains sheet music for 24 tunes from the ’50s and ’60s jazz cats who invented cool. This book has fantastic transcriptions of some great jazz songs. They aren’t too lengthy, but they also feel full. There are also several spots that work well for improvising also, before the Coda in “All Blues”. Very good arrangement, not too difficult but still challenging to play. This book is written with note by note improvization for both hands. Great book for beginner jazz piano player. Songs include: All Blues – Miles Davis,...

Mark John Sternal Easy Acoustic Guitar DVD download. Beginner Basics and Beyond. The proven content was designed by Expert Guitar Instructor Mark John Sternal to be the FASTEST and EASIEST way to learn to play, GUARANTEED! The student will learn to read guitar music with notation, TAB and charts. The method is geared to allow the viewer to start playing instantly, learning individual notes, then progressively builds up from partial two string chords to full, six string chords. In part 3 of this video, the student will graduate to learn their first 5 SONGS in the most popular music...

Scott Williams The Funky Six PDF. Book provides a comprehensive method to develop the ability to play the funk shuffle and other jazz/funk/rock grooves that use a sextuplet (or 16th note triplet) feel. An understanding of these feels and the ability to play them well is an integral part of being a versatile contemporary player. The Funky Six is the perfect book for drummers who enjoy playing in the jazz/funk/rock genre, but are stuck in a “straight 16th note rut” and would like to feel more comfortable playing triplet-based rhythms. This book contains basic exercises to create a strong...