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Book and CD sets
The Total Jazz Guitarist
This unique and wide-ranging method features exciting lessons for players at all levels of ability. You will find tons of chords, scales and other improvisational devices to use. This book will teach you how to create great sounding chord melodies, cool improvised solos, and other creative jazz techniques using actual standards and jazz tunes, such as I'm in the Mood for Love, Over the Rainbow, and Blue Moon. Standard notation and TAB.
Book and CD..........$19.95
Book and CD..........$19.95
Jazz Guitar Harmony
This comprehensive study of harmony is a must for any guitarist interested in jazz. It explains the essentials of jazz harmony in a friendly, easy-to-understand manner. Learn about chord scales, abbreviated voicings, extended harmonies, altered chords, substitutions and analyzing chord progressions. Other topics include ii-V-I progressions, the dominant cycle, "rhythm changes", clusters, quartal harmonies, working with upper structures and much more. Finally, jazz harmony is demystified in one reliable book.
Book and CD----------$20.95
Book and CD----------$20.95
The Art of Solo Guitar--Book 1
Book One focuses on the nuts and bolts of playing solo guitar. Basic fingerboard knowledge and theory are covered, followed by extensive information about chords, harmony and basic arranging.
Book and CD----------$20.95
Book and CD----------$20.95
The Art of Solo Guitar--Book 2
Book Two focuses on more advanced arranging techniques and adding the element of improvisation to your solo work. You will also find lots of information about ornamentation, the various musical and stylistic feels and many aesthetic considerations.
Book and CD----------20.95
Book and CD----------20.95
Beginning Jazz Guitar w/CD
This book is for guitar players who want to start playing jazz. If you have a knowledge of basic chords and scale fingerings, then you are ready for this. Spanning from the major scale and basic triad theory all the way to extended chords and the modes, this book features a full-length etude or song to go with every new concept introduced in the book. Beginning Jazz Guitar provides an actual step-by-step and enjoyable method for learning to play in this style. Organized into easily mastered segments, each chapter is divided into separate lessons on harmony or improvisation. Standard notation and TAB.
Book and CD...................$20.90
Book and CD...................$20.90
Intermediate Jazz Guitar
This book is for guitarists who have learned the basics of jazz harmony and improvisation. Topics include the ii-V7-I progression, creating solo lines, altered chord formulas and comping in different feels such as Latin, swing, ballad and funk. Continuing the format of Beginning Jazz Guitar, every new concept is accompanied by etudes and songs for practice, and every chapter is clearly divided into harmony and improvisation lessons. You will find literally hundreds of chord voicings and improvisation ideas. Standard notation and TAB.
Book and CD...................$20.90
Book and CD...................$20.90
Mastering Chord Melody
This book picks up where the harmony lessons in Intermediate Jazz Guitar leave off. Topics include integrating melody and harmony, developing bass lines, chord enhancement and substitution, simultaneous chords and walking bass lines, quartal harmonies, and arranging guitar solos. Concepts are illustrated with lots of examples to practice. Standard notation and TAB.
Book and CD.....................$19.90
Book and CD.....................$19.90
Mastering Improvisation
This book picks up where the improvisation lessons in Intermediate Jazz Guitar leave off.Topics include improvising over altered dominant chords, the diminished scale, the super locrian scale (altered dominant scale), the whole tone scale, targeting the altered tones, altered tone clusters, revamping licks, modes of the minor scales and more. Standard notation and TAB.
Book and CD..............$19.90
Book and CD..............$19.90
Jazz Skills
In this book, the author helps guitarists with their most common problems. Based on a popular course at the National Guitar Workshop, Jazz Skills clarifies everything from understanding altered chords to spelling out chord changes in solos and developing better technique. A great supplement for any serious guitarist's studies, this easy-to-use book will fill gaps for even the most experienced player.
Book and CD................$19.95
Book and CD................$19.95
Jazz Licks Encyclopedia
Over 280 useful jazz guitar licks! Organized by chord type. Four voicings given for each chord type. Examples in TAB and standard notation. Includes sections on important scales for improvisation, articulation, "feel" and other important subjects. Licks for common progressions such as ii-V7-I.
Book and CD...................$19.95
Book and CD...................$19.95
Rhythm Guitar Encyclopedia
Most guitarists want to become great improvisers. The truth of the matter is that without great rhythmic backup the soloist has nothing to work with. To a large extent, the success of a solo has a lot to do with how the rhythm section and lead player interact. You can use this book as a reference source. You come home from the gig, embarrassed because you didn't know how to play an authentic Bossa Nova pattern and look it up. Maybe you had to play some Reggae or a Viennese Waltz. Perhaps you are a jazz player who has limited rock rhythm chops, or a rocker who needs more funk ideas. If you need to be able to play in a wide variety of styles you will find everything here from Afro-Cuban rhythms to the Bunny Hop.Over 450 examples. Standard notation and TAB.
Book and 2 CDs......$26.45
Book and 2 CDs......$26.45
Stand Alone Tracks/Smooth Jazz
This book/CD playalong set will help develop your improvisational prowess. Backup tracks include guitar, bass, keyboards, sax and drums. Suggested scales are shown in standard notation and grids. Each track is long enough to let you really stretch out. The ten songs are based loosely on popular smooth jazz tunes featuring Scott Smith on keyboards, Jeff Stover on bass, Glen Myerscough on sax and Ron Dunn-Jones on drums. Intermediate to advanced. 60 minutes.
Book and CD.......................$12.95
Book and CD.......................$12.95
Jazz Guitar Christmas
The Christmas carols found in this volume are some of the most popular. There are two versions of each song, one fairly easy and one considerably more challenging. Some arrangements sound very traditional, and some have a definite jazz feel, due mostly to the chosen harmonies. Contains: Angels We Have Heard On High, Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, We Three Kings of Orient Are, Away in a Manger, The First Noel, O Little Town of Bethlehem, It Came Upon a Midnight Clear, God Rest ye Merry Gentlemen, What Child Is This?, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, O Come All Ye Faithful. Standard notation and TAB.
Book and CD..........$18.90
Book and CD..........$18.90
Teaching Guitar - An In-Depth Guide to Making a Living as a Professional Guitar Teacher
Optimizing personal income while developing a career both as a guitar teacher and musician can be rewarding, but challenging. Finally, here is a guide written by a seasoned professional--full of teaching tips, musical examples and business advice to help you run a successful teaching business. The Enhanced CD included with this book contains recorded examples, backing tracks fro students to improvise over, and helpful forms fro bookkeeping and tracking student attendance and progress. This in-depth guide, which explores a diversity of teaching situations and styles, will put you on the right path to follow your dream of making a living as a guitar teacher.
Book and CD....................$17.50
Book and CD....................$17.50
I Used to Play Guitar
If you once played guitar and have always wanted to pick it up again, this is the book for you. Jody Fisher's friendly, step-by-step method will reintroduce you to concepts and techniques you used to know and take you further down the road to guitar proficiency. Part 1 will reacquaint you with the guitar itself and how to take care of it. All of the basic chord forms and strumming patterns are covered in Part 2, including barre chords and other moveable chords. Part 3 will remind you how to read standard music notation in an easy, fun-to-use way. Part 4 will give you all the ideas and tricks for improvising that you once knew and the tools you need to rise to a new level. By the time you finish the book, you'll not only be up to your old tricks, you'll be better than ever. Book and CD. $19.95
Ear Training for the Contemporary Guitarist
Ear training is the study of tonal relationships. Recognizing notes, scales and chords is important whether you are learning tunes from recordings, composing music, playing with others or studying the music of other players. The exercises in this book require listening and the desire to improve one's ear. Working with both the book and the CD, you should, with repeated study, see a gradual improvement in your ability to hear changes, intervals and chords. This book can be used on its own but it also correlates with Theory for the Contemporary Guitarist by Guy Capuzzo (also published by Workshop Arts and Alfred).
Book and CD...................$19.95
Book and CD...................$19.95
Mel Bay's Anthology of Fingerstyle Guitar Solos--Vol.2
This book features solos by Andrea Benzoni, Tommy Emanuel, Jody Fisher, Michael Fix, Jim Goodin, Lars Johansson, Michael O'Dorn, Larry Pattis, Bill Piburn, Preston Reed, Colin Rein and Rick Ruskin.
Book and CD....................$19.95
Book and CD....................$19.95
Books
Beginning Jazz Guitar - Book Only
This book is for guitar players who want to start playing jazz. If you have a knowledge of basic chords and scale fingerings, then you are ready for this. Spanning from the major scale and basic triad theory all the way to extended chords and the modes, this book features a full-length etude or song to go with every new concept introduced in the book. Beginning Jazz Guitar provides an actual step-by-step and enjoyable method for learning to play in this style. Organized into easily mastered segments, each chapter is divided into separate lessons on harmony or improvisation. Standard notation and TAB.
Book...................$7.95
Book...................$7.95
30-Day Guitar Workout
Becoming a proficient guitarist requires two things: first, an intellectual understanding of music and the guitar; and secondly, physical dexterity so you can translate your ideas onto your instrument. Most of us are highly developed in some techniques but embarrassingly under developed in others. Maybe you can play very fast but your hammer-ons are weak. Can your right hand ALWAYS keep up with your left hand? Are your fingerstyle chops great and your pick chops poor? Or vice-versa? How about string skipping? Playing triplets? This book will help you develop a balanced set of hands. Includes: daily warm-ups, lessons on left and right hand technique, exercises for chords, single notes, pickstyle and fingerstyle as well as a 30-day technical development plan for all guitarists. Standard notation and TAB.
Book......................$7.50
Book......................$7.50
Jazz Guitar Master Class
The players whose lessons appear in this volume are some of the real movers and shakers in the jazz guitar world and it is a rare opportunity to hear them explain in their own words how they think, practice and perform. Steve Khan helps with Building a Phrase Vocabulary for the ii-V7-I Progression. Ron Eschete provides a Finger Style Blues lesson. Scott Henderson teaches about Creating Harmonies with Intervallic Patterns. Joe Diorio gives 19 Ways to Handle the imin7-V7-imin7 Progression. Mark Whitfield gives Exercises for the Left and Right Hands. Jody Fisher teaches about Using Symmetrical Chord Movement to Create Altered Dominant Lines. Standard notation and TAB.
Book..............$5.95
Book..............$5.95
Guitar Chord and Scale Finder
The purpose of this book is to give you a single source to refer to when looking for information regarding the use of scales for improvisation. This is not a method. Rather, it is a reference book. You can look up any chord to learn what scales will work with it. You can also look up any scale to learn every chord it works with. You will find two fingering diagrams for every scale and several voicings for the chords. Standard notation and TAB.
Book................$9.95
Book................$9.95
Guitar Mode Encyclopedia
This volume covers the 21 modes of the major, melodic minor and harmonic minor scales. Each mode is examined from five different perspectives. Includes: the harmonized modes with suggested voicings, modal theory, open, closed and and single string fingerings, lots of sample solos and more. Packed with useful information. Standard notation and TAB.
Book......................$19.95
Book......................$19.95
Book and DVD sets
Beginning Jazz Guitar w/DVD
This book is for guitar players who want to start playing jazz. If you have a knowledge of basic chords and scale fingerings, then you are ready for this. Spanning from the major scale and basic triad theory all the way to extended chords and the modes, this book features a full-length etude or song to go with every new concept introduced in the book. Beginning Jazz Guitar provides an actual step-by-step and enjoyable method for learning to play in this style. Organized into easily mastered segments, each chapter is divided into separate lessons on harmony or improvisation. Standard notation and TAB.
Book and DVD...................$24.95
Book and DVD...................$24.95
30-Day Guitar Workout--Book and DVD
Becoming a proficient guitarist requires two things: first, an intellectual understanding of music and the guitar; and secondly, physical dexterity so you can translate your ideas onto your instrument. Most of us are highly developed in some techniques but embarrassingly under developed in others. Maybe you can play very fast but your hammer-ons are weak. Can your right hand ALWAYS keep up with your left hand? Are your fingerstyle chops great and your pick chops poor? Or vice-versa? How about string skipping? Playing triplets? This book will help you develop a balanced set of hands. Includes: daily warm-ups, lessons on left and right hand technique, exercises for chords, single notes, pickstyle and fingerstyle as well as a 30-day technical development plan for all guitarists. Standard notation and TAB.
Book and DVD......................$23.95
Book and DVD......................$23.95
DVDs
Beginning Jazz Guitar--DVD
This video starts with basic chords and moves on to jazz chord-scales, the major scale and basic jazz improvisation. You will be accompanied by a live jazz combo featuring Jeff Seigal--Drums, Peter Einhorn--guitar and Troy Millard--bass. Close-ups of the hands, split screens and other techniques make this video easy to follow. Complements the book, Beginning Jazz Guitar.
DVD....................$19.95
DVD....................$19.95