Begin your adventure into the passionate and thrilling world of gypsy jazz guitar. The Gypsy Jazz Fast Track covers 6 tunes in hardcore depth – and there’s 14 lessons per tune. This course is self-paced, online and includes 84+ video lessons, backing tracks and chord charts. For each tune there’s lessons covering: Intros and Endings; The Tune; The Chords; Soloing Ideas (we’ll spend a lot of time working on soloing); Gypsy Jazz Ninja Moves (each tune has 5 of these lessons); Applying the Blues; And a bunch more stuff. The Gypsy Jazz Fast Track is designed for intermediate to...

Both Frank Gambale Technique Book 1 & Book 2 are essentially studies of five different improvisational approaches to tackle a particular chord type, namely: scale, pentatonics, arpeggios, triads, intervals. As such, Frank presents a wide range of harmonic possibilities on improvisation, based upon which the intelligent student can construct meaningful solos when these music elements are internalized. Note that in those two books there is a large amount of materials to digest, however a solid understanding of these materials is fundamental to jazz improvisation. The aspiring guitarist is urged to seek ways, from other sources, to build lines once...

String Theory: Applying Jazz Harmony to Rock Lead Guitar. Learn how to apply jazz harmony to rock lead guitar with over two hours of instruction! You’ll learn how to craft musically strong melodies over chord progressions, apply arpeggio sweeps to changing chords, employ upper-structure voice leading to create harmonic tension, use chromatics to smoothly connect chord tones, and how to play like Michael Brecker, Carlos Santana, Gary Moore, and more! TAB booklet included on disc. String Theory, written by and featuring Guitar World Senior Music Editor Jimmy Brown, is a collection of the first 10 String Theory columns that...

Jazz Play-Along Volume 28 Big Band Era PDF. For use with all Bb, Eb, and C instruments, the Jazz Play Along series is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues, and other split-track choices on the included CD, this first-of-its-kind package makes learning to play jazz easier than ever before. For study, each tune includes a split track with melody cue with proper style and inflection, professional rhythm tracks, choruses for soloing, removable bass part and removable piano part. For performance, each tune also has an additional full stereo accompaniment track (no...

Don Mock Melodic Minor Revealed PDF. Legendary guitarist and educator Don Mock exposes the closely-guarded “secret” soloing techniques of jazz and rock giants, revealing easy ways to create ultra-cool sounding lines and patterns by substituting simple harmonic minor patterns over dominant 7th chords. These book/CD packages each contain over 60 music examples, lines, licks and patterns. All music is written in standard notation and tablature. This book displays the ideas of how to apply the melodic minor scale, through the means of scalar sequences, static chord vamp, ii-V applications, arpeggio superimpositions, pentatonic fragments, etc. From learning these ideas, one...

Until now learning how to play the bass guitar has meant a choice between struggling along on your own, expensive private guitar lessons or even attending evening group-classes. Now below is the general jist of how simple to follow this DVD is. In the example below, my girlfiend tried the Guitar DVD, but having checked over the Bass DVD its along very similar lines. “The guitar DVD contains everything you need to start play the guitar – and says that it ‘can get you up and running in just one day’. Now when I first read that statement, I...

The purpose of Jazz Mastery is to give the serious student an entry into the creative process as quickly as possible. Presented here is the necessary information, stated clearly and simply as possible, in the hope that motivation and inspiration will soon follow on the heels of comprehension. The responsibility of a teacher lies in getting students excited, as well as presenting the theory to them in an easily assimilated form. Jazz Mastery will certainly serve up equal portions of the requisite information and inspiration. This material was written and recorded in 1999 and looks like it’s been transferred...

This book is more than just a catchy collection of jazz guitar licks. It presents a teaching concept which relates a great-sounding guitar phrase to a typical chord progression and also to a typical standard tune. All examples are in notation and tablature and are applicable to pick or fingerstyle jazz. Contents: Major Seventh Sound Dominant Seventh Sound Minor Seventh Sound Diminished Seventh Sound Augmented Sound Varietes of Licks Built on Chord Progressions from Standart Tunes Introductions Endings Format: PDF + Audio tracks (Mp3). Download Alan de Mause – 101 Jazz Guitar Licks free and other lessons from our...

In this info-packed DVD, Clark explains and demonstrates the blues, funk, and jazz roots behind his unique and highly influential approach. Step by step, Clark takes viewers through the evolution of funk, shuffle, and swing, showing with concise illustrations how he shaped his signature “Oakland ghost-note” style into the pioneering grooves he played with Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters. Bonus live performances with his trio show the range, power, and passion that have made Clark into one of the most in-demand, genre-crossing drummers in contemporary music. On this program, Mike Clark, the man behind the “Oakland Ghost-note” style, shares his innovative...

One of America’s great contemporary players takes you on a journey of discovery and insight into the world of jazz piano that will start you playing the right way. In a 90-minute lesson packed with information, music theory and keyboard technique, players getting their start in the jazz idiom will gain a wealth of knowledge and acquire the tools you’ll need to improvise jazz standards. Warren Bernhardt’s clear, easy-to-follow method builds your keyboard skills step-by-step, starting with the most basic of concepts: proper hand positions, ascending and descending diatonic scales in 3rds, and an understanding of chord shapes, inversions...