A comprehensive, easy-to-understand intermediate approach to jazz guitar playing techniques, helps develop an individual concept of improvising by learning scales and their basic chord forms and further develops improvisation skills through the use of practice patterns. Utilizes transcriptions along with several original pieces by Joe Pass.
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The CAGED system, applicable to all playing styles, will help you clearly map out the fretboard with recognizable forms and shapes that intertwine sensibly. The result is equal comfort with all areas, and the confidence to play what you want, where you want! Break free from the prison of unfamiliarity – get CAGED! Covers major, minor and 7th chords, song structures, shortcuts, and info on studying theory. The price of this book includes access to audio tracks online, for download or streaming, using the unique code inside. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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Expand your guitar knowledge with the Guitar Lesson Goldmine series! Featuring 100 individual modules covering a giant array of topics, each lesson in this Acoustic volume includes detailed instruction with playing examples presented in standard notation and tablature. You'll also get extremely useful tips, scale diagrams, chord grids, photos, and more to reinforce your learning experience, plus online audio performance demos of all the examples in the book! A huge variety of acoustic guitar styles and techniques are covered, including: strumming techniques, basic to advanced chords, chord embellishments, basic to advanced fingerstyle, alternate tuning, hybrid picking, Carter style, percussive techniques, Travis picking, block-chord style, fingerstyle arranging, and much more! Audio can be streamed or downloaded and includes PLAYBACK+ tools including tempo adjustment, looping, and more to assist with practice!
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This book with online audio explores all the main components necessary for crafting well-balanced rhythmic and melodic phrases. It also explains how these phrases are put together to form cohesive solos. Many styles are covered – rock, blues, jazz, fusion, country, Latin, funk and more – and all of the concepts are backed up with musical examples. The 50 ideas are divided into five main sections: The Basics – covers fundamental but all too often forgotten techniques, such as slurs and vibrato, that can breathe new life into your phrases; Melodic Concepts – explores various aspects of melodic phrasing, such as motifs, chromaticism and sequences; Harmonic Embellishments – discusses the melodic potential of harmonic intervals (dyads), chords and chord partials; Rhythmic Concepts – explores various aspects of rhythmic phrasing, such as accents, free-time phrasing and metric modulation, and how it pertains to melodic soloing; Solo Structure – all of the topics discussed in the book come together to help form the big picture. The companion audio contains 89 demos for listening, and most tracks feature full-band backing. The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right. Also available for keyboard, tenor saxophone and trumpet.
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The Legendary Licks series presents the music of a band or artist in a comprehensive play-along package. Each book contains note-for-note transcriptions and detailed performance notes on how to play a multitude of classic licks, fills, riffs, and solos – complete with recorded demonstrations. Slowed-down versions are also on the CD for the fast and tricky passages. Covers: Angels Don't Kill • Are You Dead Yet? • Downfall • Everytime I Die • Hate Crew Deathroll • Hellhounds on My Trail • In Your Face • Living Dead Beat • Needled 24/7 • Sixpounder • Tie My Rope • and We're Not Gonna Fall, complete with gear setup info.
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El metodo para guitarra Hal Leonard esta disenado para cualquiera que este aprendiendo a tocar la guitarra acustica o electrica. Esta basado en anos de esnenanza a estudiantes de guitarra de todas las edades, y tambien refleja algunas de las mejores ideas para la ensenanza de la guitarra de todo el mundo.
El Libro 1 incluye:
• Afinacion
• Posicion
• Simbolos musicales
• Notas en la primera posicion
• Acordes de C, G, G7, D, D7, A7 y Em
• Ritmos con corcheas
• Rasgueo y pua
• 100 grandes canciones, riffs y ejemplos
Incluye 47 pistas con una banda al completo, como demostracion o base sobre las que tocar. El precio de este libro incluye acceso a las pistas de audio en Internet, por descargar o streaming, utilizando el código único que se encuentra en la primera página del libro.
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Leavitt's practical, comprehensive method is used as the basic text for Berklee's guitar program. After mastering the fundamentals from Volumes 1 and 2, guitarists will be ready to take their skills to a more challenging level. This book teaches: techniques relating to scales, arpeggios, rhythm guitar, chord/scale relationships, chord construction and voicings, tips for advanced playing, and more.
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One of the world's most popular beginning classical guitar methods by South American guitar virtuoso Julio Sagreras and translated by Bernard Moore. Features carefully sequenced studies covering technique and theory through music etudes and pieces.
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A complete collection of all three Acoustic Guitar Method books in one volume! Learn how to play guitar with the only beginning method based on traditional American music that teaches you authentic techniques and songs. Beginning with a few basic chords and strums, you'll start right in learning real music drawn from blues, folk, country and bluegrass traditions. You'll learn how to find notes on the fingerboard, expand your collection of chords by learning songs in various keys, and learn different kinds of picking patterns. When you're done with this method series, you'll know dozens of the tunes that form the backbone of American music, using a variety of flatpicking and fingerpicking techniques.
Songs include: Bury Me Beneath the Willow • Delia • Frankie and Johnny • The Girl I Left Behind Me • House of the Rising Sun • Ida Red • In the Pines • Little Sadie • Man of Constant Sorrow • Sally Goodin • Scarborough Fair • Will the Circle Be Unbroken? • and many more. Accompanying audio examples are all available for download!
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Learn the slide guitar stylings of Warren Haynes from the man himself! The legendary guitarist of Gov't Mule, Phil Lesh and Friends, the Grateful Dead, and the Allman Brothers Band offers instructions on choosing a slide, perfecting left- and right-hand techniques, playing rhythm, and blues soloing-on electric and acoustic. The Warren Haynes Guide to Slide Guitar will give you the most in-depth and personal lessons ever on how to play slide guitar in the style of Warren Haynes. Also includes access to audio tracks of the exercises, played by Warren himself with a full band. Listen to the master or solo along to the backing tracks! The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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This multi-volume method was developed to allow students to study the art of classical guitar within a new, more contemporary framework. For private, class or self-instruction. Book One features an all-new format that incorporates chord frames and symbols, as well as audio examples to assist in tuning and to provide accompaniments for at-home practice. Book One also introduces beginning fingerboard technique and music theory. Book Two and Three build upon the techniques learned in Book One.
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This book provides the pentatonic scale fingerings, diagrams, lessons and licks that every guitarist needs to know. It covers: major and minor pentatonic scale patterns in all positions; licks in the styles of Chuck Berry, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, B.B. King, Jimmy Page and other great artists; and much more. The online audio tracks include 90 full-band demos for listening and/or play-along. Each example is played twice: once at normal tempo and once slower for closer examination. The book is in standard notation and tablature.
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Are you a rock or metal guitarist who wants to expand your technique vocabulary? Better yet, do you want to learn from a songwriter and composer who has played with the likes of Lita Ford, Rob Halford, David Lee Roth, Meat Loaf, Marilyn Manson, and Rob Zombie? If so, this collection of lessons by shredder extraordinaire John 5 is for you! Lesson topics include: arpeggio licks, flamenco fingerpicking, string skipping, speed picking, country sounds, tapping, infusing techniques, hybrid picking, exotic and outside sounds, and more! The book also includes recorded demos of each exercise. The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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The partial capo is a tool that revolutionizes the way players approach the guitar. The road map for using partial capos is simple, but the variations are deeply complex. Use this clear, yet comprehensive book/online audio pack to give the partial capo a try, and discover the beautiful frontier of sounds that awaits you!
The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that alows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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Learn to master rock's most tried-and-true sound: the power chord. With just a few different power chord shapes, you can rock through hundreds of songs – from death metal, to rockabilly, to grunge and beyond. This book/audio pack includes: famous progressions from popular songs, by artists from Alice in Chains to Weezer; clear photos and frames of all the essential power chords; riffs in all styles; alternate tunings; notes and tab. The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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Here at last is the long awaited, definitive jazz guitar scale method by music legend Chuck Wayne. With a career that includes recordings with Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Woody Herman, George Shearing, and Tony Bennett, Chuck Wayne's approach to the guitar and improvisation has paved the way for a generation of guitarists. This book presents an in-depth analysis of his own highly influential developments in technique and jazz theory. Dozens of examples and exercises are featured that Chuck Wayne has found invaluable in his own teaching.
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Play ten blues classics in the style of the masters! These transcriptions and annotations show you how the world's greatest blues guitarists created their unique, inspired solos and rhythm parts. Veteran blues guitarist and educator Michael Williams reveals the techniques and nuances behind the notes that give each solo and artist their personal character and sound. By studying these solos by the blues masters, including four complete classic instrumentals and rhythm parts with turnarounds and fills around the vocals, you'll be able reuse their techniques for your own performances. Songs: Okie Dokie Stomp • The Last Time (I Get Burned like This) • Frosty • The Woman I Love • San Ho Zay • The Sad Night Owl • Worried Life Blues • I Need You So Bad • Wait on Time • Papa Ain't Salty. Includes access to audio tracks online for download or streaming.
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Whether you're completely new to the guitar, you've strummed chords before but always wanted to fingerpick, or you've tried fingerpicking in the past but could never get the hang of it, this easy-to-use book with online audio for electric or acoustic guitar is for you! The progressive approach of this book is designed to bring you from an absolute beginning level of fingerpicking to a point at which you can play many songs with multiple picking patterns – and even create countless patterns of your own! Includes tablature, and recorded audio tracks of every example in the book! The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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Whether you're a first-time fingerstylist who's studying with a teacher or on your own, The Acoustic Guitar Fingerstyle Method by David Hamburger gives you the detailed, comprehensive instruction you need to improve your skills. This book introduces you to the two most essential fingerstyle approaches for playing American roots music: Travis picking and the steady-bass style. In each lesson, you'll learn new techniques, concepts, and chord voicings along with ways to practice and get them under your fingers. Then you can use what you just learned to play a classic song or solo break from the blues, ragtime, folk, country, and ragtime traditions. 18 In-Depth Lessons, including: Travis Picking Basics, Switching Chords, Eighth Notes and Syncopation, Picking Pattern Fills, Double Stops, and much more. 15 songs to play, including: John Henry • Delia • St. James Infirmary • Nobody's Fault but Mine • Houston Blues • Alberta • and more. Each book includes access to recordings of demonstration tracks of all the exercises and songs. Audio is accessed online using the unique code in each book.
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An outstanding instruction book for general music classes that includes 48 pages of the basics for a quick introduction to the guitar. Presented in a sing and strum format, the book teaches finger picking and uses 15 basic chords. Great popular songs such as: Hound Dog * Where Have All The Flowers Gone? * The Rainbow Connection * and more.
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Learn the art of fingerstyle jazz guitar with these 12 insightful lessons. With chapters aimed at building chord vocabulary, separating bass and melody voices, and improvisation in the style of jazz guitar greats like Wes Montgomery and Joe Pass, this book is your guide to building and playing great solo guitar arrangements of songs from the classic jazz-standard repertoire. Complete with jazz interpretations of traditional songs. Lessons include audio downloads, standard notation and tablature for all examples and songs, and much more.
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A supplement to any guitar method, these 96 perforated cards aid in learning guitar and are perfect for private, classroom, and/or home study. The cards cover basic concepts, including: music notation; notes on each string; chords; keys; scales; and more!
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Features over 25 original tunes and exercises to teach fingerpicking in all styles, including rock, folk-rock, blues, country and folk. The accompanying online audio includes 57 demo tracks, and the book covers: how to create fingerpicking solos; accompaniment patterns for rhythmic grooves; tunes and exercises in the style of The Beatles, The Byrds, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Ani DiFranco, Fleetwood Mac, The Indigo Girls, Jewel, Tom Petty, James Taylor, Suzanne Vega and others; and much more. Appropriate for beginning to intermediate level players. Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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This book with online audio access is a hands-on guide to the tapping techniques used by Eddie Van Halen, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Michael Hedges, Jeff Watson, Vito Bratta, Jennifer Batton, Stanley Jordan and other top guitarists. It covers: the basics of tapping; tapping arpeggios; tapping scale fragments; the ascending tap concept; right-hand slides, tapped bends, tap harmonics and chordal tapping; multi-fingered tapping; combining techniques; and much more, in standard notation and tab. The accompanying online audio is available for streaming or downloading using the unique code printed inside the book and features each example played at slow, medium and fast tempos.
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This first book launches you straight into a hands-on contemporary approach to learning the basics of both guitar and music. The essential visual element of shapes and patterns on the fingerboard unlock the secret to successful and creative playing. You'll learn exciting power chords, strum patterns, riffs, guitar techniques like muting and string bending, and 12 bar blues progression. All presented with contemporary music examples and figures (from rockabilly to hard rock). In addition, you'll gain essential musical knowledge from the basics of notation (including tablature and grids), rhythm and meter and intervals transposition. Special Playing Tips and Music Builders sections further enhance your guitar and music chops. 41-minute audio Chapters Include: * Two- and three-note power chords * Single note playing riffs over chords in all styles * 12-Bar blues used in most styles of popular music * Riff-building over 12-bar blues * Building scale riffs and motifs over open chord forms
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Here's your complete guide to getting your guitars to play and sound their best! Step-by-step instructions and photos teach how to adjust the action, truss rod, bridge saddles, nut, intonation and more on electric guitars and steel string acoustic guitars. Basic electronic repairs are covered as well. This book will get you started on the road to becoming your own guitar repairman.
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Using this no-nonsense book with online audio, guitarists will learn to apply and execute all types of arpeggio forms using a variety of techniques, including alternate picking, sweep picking, tapping, string skipping, and legato. This is not just another arpeggio book, but a methodical approach to expanding your skills as a guitarist – and as a musician!
The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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Apprenez a jouer les accords de guitare grace a ce guide a la fois complet et facile a utiliser. Contient plus de 1100 diagrammes d'accord pour les 31 types d'accords les plus importants, y compris trois harmonisations pour chaque accord. Ce guide s'adresse egalement aux joueurs de guitare basse electrique.
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Now you can add authentic jazz feel and flavor to your playing! Here are 101 definitive licks, plus online audio, from every major jazz guitar style, neatly organized into easy-to-use categories. They're all here: swing and pre-bop, bebop, post-bop modern jazz, hard bop and cool jazz, modal jazz, soul jazz and postmodern jazz. Includes an introduction by Wolf Marshall, tips for using the book and online audio, and a listing of suggested recordings.
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Add to your blues toolbox! This book/online audio pack teaches 75 turnarounds over common chord progressions and in a variety of styles, including those of blues guitar greats like Albert King, Johnny Winter, Mike Bloomfield, Duane Allman, Jeff Beck, T-Bone Walker and others. Excellent material for performance and practice, with detailed info for every example. The accompanying audio includes recorded demos of all 75 turnarounds to make learning easy!
The price of the book includes a unique code that provides access to audio tracks online, for download or streaming. The tracks include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right – available exclusively from Hal Leonard.
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