Easy Soloing for Blues Guitar: Fun Lessons for Beginning Improvisers
A great blues guitar solo can express the full range of human emotions. Easy Soloing for Blues Guitar will give you everything you need to get started on this path of self-expression. So many guitarists love the blues but have never learned how to improvise or take a solo. This book shows you that it’s easy and fun! It teaches soloing strategies like tension and release, and call and response, plus easy technique-building warm-ups and exercises. You’ll also find tunes in the style of B.B. King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and other great blues artists. Best of all, everything is explained in simple terms and demonstrated using actual examples, with every solo featured in standard music notation and TAB. Every blues guitarist should be able to improvise a solo, so let’s get started! A CD demonstrating the examples in the book is included.
Jazz Performer: Solo Inspirations: Standards for Advanced Solo Piano
Paul Johnston’s arrangements of these wonderful standards incorporate stylistic elements of some of the great pianists of the last 60 years, including Bud Powell, Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett and others. Each arrangement includes a written-out solo section, so that even non-jazz pianists will feel as if they’re improvising. Titles: Alice in Wonderland (Farn/Hilliard) * The Days of Wine and Roses (Mancini) * Eternal Triangle (Stitt) * A Foggy Day (Gershwin) * Our Love Is Here to Stay (Gershwin) * Over the Rainbow (Arlen/Harburg) * Scrapple from the Apple (Parker) * Skylark (Mercer/Carmichael) * When I Fall In Love (Young/Heyman) * You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To (Porter).
Barry Galbraith Jazz Guitar Study Series #3: Guitar Comping: With Bass Lines …
From the great recording artist and studio guitarist Barry Galbraith comes the first comprehensive material on the art of jazz guitar comping. This book contains jazz voicings and rhythms for a range of standards and blues, and bass parts are shown in treble clef. The recordings on the play-along CD feature excellent stereo separations, with Barry on guitar and Milt Hinton on bass, making improvisation practice fun!
Barry Galbraith Jazz Guitar Study Series #3: Guitar Comping: With Bass Lines
The Barry Galbraith Jazz Guitar Study Series #3 is a book and online audio package focused on guitar comping with bass lines, specifically tailored for intermediate to advanced level jazz guitarists. Published by Alfred Publishing in 2015, this study series offers a comprehensive approach to mastering jazz guitar skills. With contributions by Barry Galbraith, the book provides 48 pages of insights, exercises, and bass lines to help musicians deepen their understanding of jazz guitar techniques. Whether you are looking to enhance your guitar comping abilities or expand your repertoire, this resource is a valuable tool for jazz guitar enthusiasts.
The Jazz Guitar Experience: Your practical guide to the landmark styles of jazz
Take a trip through the history of jazz with The Jazz Guitar Experience. You will also learn about other styles that have influenced jazz music along the way, such as bossa nova and the blues. The CD demonstrates all the music examples in the book.
Daily Studies for All Saxophones
A professor of jazz studies at Western Michigan University, Kynaston lays a foundation necessary before the saxophone student can venture very far into jazz. Scales, arpeggios, tonguing, and playing in tune are essentials covered here in a manner that should lead to ease in using the language of jazz.
A Month of Sundays: Easter and Lent: Preludes, Offertories, and Postludes for…
Creatively arranged by renowned pianist-arranger Jan Sanborn, A Month of Sundays-Easter and Lent offers church pianists 12 beloved hymns grouped into four prelude-offertory-postlude combinations (one for each Sunday of the Easter and Lent season). Titles: Ah, Holy Jesus * All Glory, Laud and Honor * Beneath the Cross of Jesus * Christ the Lord Is Risen Today * The Hallelujah Chorus * Hosanna, Loud Hosanna * I Know That My Redeemer Liveth * In the Cross of Christ I Glory * Rejoice, the Lord Is King * Were You There? * What Wondrous Love Is This * When I Survey the Wondrous Cross.
Guitar Styles: Punk: The Guitarist’s Guide to Music of the Masters
Dive into the raw energy of punk music with « Guitar Styles: Punk – The Guitarist’s Guide to Music of the Masters » by Tobias Hurwitz.
Bach for Guitar: Masters in TAB
Easy to intermediate pieces by J. S. Bach including Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring, Bourrée and more. Musical and technical information accompany each piece, and helpful fingering suggestions are also included.
7-String Guitar
Get ready to turn it up to « 11 » and go « 7. » Learn the styles and sounds of the most impressive rock artists to ever use seven-string guitar. This book covers the characteristics of four of the most important tunings, with related chord forms, rhythm guitar riffs, scales and licks. You’ll learn the significance of each tuning and the reasons different artists use them. Plenty of usable riffs, licks, and solos emulating their styles are included. All music is written in both standard music notation and tablature. The CD contains all the music featured in the book. This is a must-have title for the modern rock guitarist who is always looking to go to that extra step.