Par GORDON ANDREW D.. With the continued worldwide success of the book series Ultra Smooth Jazz Grooves that I co-authored with sax player Frank Villafranca based on compositions that we wrote for our band The Super Groovers, I have now authored this series of Smooth Jazz books for the following instruments: Piano/Keyboards, Guitar/Bass, Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Tenor and Alto Saxes, Trumpet and Trombone. Smooth Jazz covers a wide variety of different styles and I have combined elements of Jazz, Rock, Pop, Blues, Latin, GospeL Funk and R

The composer says: For years, my fellow guitarists have been asking me to compose a solo classical guitar piece that reflects that most American of musical styles?the blues. Their prodding was the motivation for Periwinkle Memories; the inspiration for the piece, however, really came from a maestro of extraordinary skill, and a teacher of even more extraordinary patience, Elias Barreiro, my guitar teacher at the University of New Orleans. I have always tried to emulate in my performances the beauty of his interpretations, and to fuse in my compositions the power and emotion of the blues. The name, Periwinkle Memories was a serendipity. I was struck by the light purplish-blue hue of the periwinkle, and soon learned the history of the funnel-shaped flower (Vinca minor.) Though it now grows wild in parts of the United States it is native to Australia, some consider it an invasive weed, most admire its extraordinary beauty. Common herbicides won?t kill it. The periwinkle is too vigorous and hardy for that. And now it is not merely a begrudged part of the American landscape, it is a vibrant part of the American landscape, elegant, stubborn, and nearly native. Like the blues. And like that young recalcitrant student Maestro Barreiro worked so hard to mold so many years ago. Ogden Nash said, ?One man?s remorse is another man?s reminiscence.? Periwinkle Memories is a celebration of Maestro Barreiro, and of both facets of that adage in me. Carlos Barrientos was born on June 25, 1954 in Tela, Honduras. He began his formal music studies at the National Music Conservatory in Guatemala City, Guatemala C.A. His training with Maestro Elias Barreiro, Director of Guitar Studies at Tulane University, was supplemented with Master Classes with Manuel Barrueco, Leo Brouwer, Juan Mercadal, Michael Newman, Tommy Tedesco and Carlos Barbosa-Lima. He studied composition under the tutelage of Dr. Jerry Sieg, University of New Orleans, and Dr. Roy Johnson, Florida State University. He consulted with Michael D. Martin, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Music, Albany State University, Albany, GA in the creation of a recordings library that reflects Western Art Music and American Jazz for the students at Albany State University. The New York Premiere of the First Movement of his Second Guitar Sonata was dedicated to and performed by Classical Guitarist Maestro Carlos Barbosa-Lima in 2003 at Carnegie Hall. At the request of U.S. Senator Bob Graham one of his compositions, Si Tu Te Vas (If You Go Away), was included on a recording to promote The Everglades Trail. In 2004, at the American Church in Paris, France the World Premiere of his Romance for Flute and Guitar was performed by the award-winning Serenade Duo, flutist Michelle LaPorte and guitarist Gerry Saulter. He has performed with such legendary musicians as Herbie Mann, Donald Byrd and Debbie Reynolds, led an on stage Renaissance Trio in a University of New Orleans production of Shakespeare?s Twelfth Night, and played incidental music for their production of Bertold Brecht?s The Good Woman of Sichuan. He has performed Carulli?s Guitar Concerto in A, Leonard Bernstein?s West Side Story and Marvin Hamlish?s A Chorus Line with the Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra and Okaloosa-Walton Community College, Niceville, FL, and with the Southern Art Music Ensemble, a Jazz/Latin Fusion Sextet, including an Honors Convocation in Atlanta for Mr. Ted Turner. He has been a guest performer with the Albany State University Jazz Ensemble at The Fletcher Henderson Jr., Macon and Atlanta Jazz Festivals, and played the banjo in the Albany State University /Albany Symphony?s co-production of George Gershwin?s Opera Porgy and Bes

Mark Vega’s Jazz Solo Series for Guitar is a great instructional tool for musicians and music students to learn or improve their improvisational abilities in the jazz-swing idiom. There are sixty-six examples in the book starting at a somewhat easy level and gradually increasing in difficulty throughout the book. Sections include: Exercises in all twelve keys using II-V-I and II-V-III-VI-II-V-I chord progressions. Exercises in all twelve keys using I-VI-II-V-III-bIII-II-V-I chord progressions. Complete worked-out solos over chord changes to the popular Jazz standards Stella By Starlight Take The ATrain and There Will Never Be Another You. Includes an easy version of the solo followed by a more difficult one. Recordings of the choruses of the above pieces repeated for convenient practicing. A selected discography of Mark’s favourite Jazz albums featuring great Jazz soloists.

Pickin? With The Book-A DVD of the artistry of Roy Book Binder. No book included. It was 40 years ago that I first recorded for Stefan Grossman’s Kicking Mule record label! Much has changed over the years and much has pretty much stayed the same. I still love the music that caught my attention back in the old days and I still play it. Many of my old pals are gone but they are still a part of my life and they come alive every time I take the stage to tell my story. After 40 years ‘in the game’ I consider myself to be a very lucky man. When your heroes end up becoming your pals life is sweet.you can’t really ask for more than that!” - Roy Book Binder

Lyrical Solos-The Guitar has so many moods and colours. I have always loved the expressive lyrical pieces written for this unique instrument. This book is a collection of 19 solos of medium difficulty which present a colourful array ofmoods harmonies and tonal textures. Each piece gives the guitarist ample opportunity for reflection interpretation and expression. The solos should be played freely with maximum use of dynamics and tone colour. The harmonies arerich and often contemporary. I hope you enjoy playing these compositions as I certainly enjoyed writing them.

For more than a century guitarists have been irresistibly drawn to Bach’s remarkable cello suites. Here for the first time are the first four in the easiest and most resonant guitar keys. Suites I–IV must be transposed to work on the guitar whereas Suite V is always played in A minor in Bach’s own lute version and the equally demanding Suite VI can only be played in its original key of D.By adding as little as possible these arrangements preserve the integrity of the originals in which melody bass and harmony are woven effortlessly into a single fabric. They also crucially offer the guitarist Bach at a lower level of difficultythan his music for lute or unaccompanied violin.Another unique feature is the inclusion of optional ‘improvised’ divisions – suggestions for the additional ornamentation of passages to reflect typical 18th-century performance practice.This is an essential addition to any guitarist's library with selected movements featured in the 2009 ABRSM guitar syllabus (Grades 5-8).“This publication beats the others hands down; no contest. I can’t see me needing any other edition of these four suites. They are that good. Buy with confidence.”Classical Guitar

An incredible collection of 100 Beatles' favorites arranged for easy guitar including: Across the Universe · All My Loving · All You Need Is Love · And I Love Her · Baby You're a Rich Man · The Ballad of John and Yoko · Because · Birthday · Come Together · A Day in the Life · Drive My Car · Eleanor Rigby · Give Peace a Chance · Good Day Sunshine · Help! · Helter Skelter · Here Comes the Sun · Hey Jude · I Saw Her Standing There · I'll Follow the Sun · If I Fell · Lady Madonna · Love Me Do · Magical Mystery Tour · Michelle · Penny Lane · Revolution · Something · Strawberry Fields Forever · Taxman · Twist and Shout · Yesterday · and more.

Description The Renaissance Guitar The first in this book-and-CD anthology of solos, duets and songs covering four centuries of composers for the Guitar and Lute family. Songlist Air(John Dowland) Almain [Cutting, Francis] Alman [Johnson, Robert] As I Went To Walsingham (Anon) Ballet (Elias Mertel) Branle De Bourgogne (Adrien Le Roy) Branle Gay (Jean Baptiste Besard) Come Heavy Sleep (John Dowland) Drewrie's Accordes (Anon) Entree De Luth (Robert Ballad) Fantasia (Alonso De Mudarra) Fantasia (Miguel De Fuenllana) Fantasia [Dowland, John] Fantasia(Anon) Galliard (Alfonso De Mudarra) Galliard (Philop Rosseter) Galliard To The Flatt Pavin (John Johnson) Galliard( Anthony Holborne) Go From My Window (Anon) Greensleeves (Francis Cutting) Guardame Las Vacas (Luis De Narvaez) La Rossignol (Anon) Lady Hammond's Alman (John Dowland) Lady Hunsdon's Alman (John Dowland) Lesson For Two Lutes [Anon] Melancholy Galliard [Dowland, John] Morenica Da Me Un Beso (Juan Vasquez) Mr. Southcote's Pavan (Thomas Ford) Mrs. Anne Harecourt's Galliard (Francis Pilkington) Mrs. Taylor's Galliard (Philip Rosseter) My Love Hath Vowed (Thomas Campion) Never Weather-beaten Sail [Campion, Thomas] Of My Complaints Could Passions Move (John Dowland) Pavan (Luis Milan) Queen Elizabeth Galliard [Dowland, John] Recercate Concertante (Francesco Da Milano & Joanne Matelart) Rest Sweet Nymphs [Pilkington, Francis] Shall I Come Sweet Love To Thee (Thomas Campion) Sonnet(Enriquez De Valderrabano) Spagnoletta (Anon) Tanz (Georg Fuhrmann) Tarleton's Resurrection [Dowland, John] The Cobbler (Anon) The Flatt Pavin (John Johnson) The King Of Denmark's Galliard (John Dowland) The Night Watch (Anthony Holborne) The Parlement (Anon) The Round Battle Galliard [Dowland, John] Toda Mi Bida Os Ame (Luis Milan) Toy (Francis Cutting) Toy For Two Lutes (Thomas Robinson) Volt (Anon) When From My Love (John Bartlet) When To Her Lute Corinna Sings (Thomas Campion) Wilson's Wilde (Anon)

The At a Glance series pairs an instructional DVD lesson taught by a professional guitarist with a supplemental book for a comprehensive learning experience. Each book/DVD features several lessons pertaining to one topic and the hi-def DVD features on-screen music. The lessons are loaded with valuable tips and information and popular song examples help to demonstrate the concepts in action. Jazz Guitar At a Glance features four lessons: Beginning Jazz Rhythm Guitar Jazz-Blues Progressions Beginning ii-V-I licks and Jazz Phrasing. Includes 20 hit songs: B.B.'s Boogie • Billie's Bounce (Bill's Bounce) • I'll Remember April • Moonlight in Vermont • St.Thomas • Speak Low • This Masquerade • Yardbird Suite • and more.

Hal Leonard Pop Melody Supplements are the unique books that supplement any guitar method books 1, 2 or 3. The play-along CD features guitar on the left channel and the full rhythm section on the right. Each book is filled with great pop songs that students are eager to play!Cross-referenced with Hal Leonard Guitar Method Book 1 pages for easy student and teacher use. Includes 15 songs of the season: Away in a Manger - Caroling, Caroling - The Chipmunk Song - Do You Hear What I Hear - Good King Wenceslas - Grandma Got Run over by a Reindeer - Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane) - A Holly Jolly Christmas - Jingle Bells - Jolly Old St. Nicholas - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! - O Come, O Come Immanuel - Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town - Silver Bells - You're All I Want for Christmas. / Guitare

You Should Play on Guitar-Accessible must-know Christmas songs are included in this one-of-a-kind collection arranged for guitar solo with a combo of tab chords and lyrics. Includes: All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth · Blue Christmas · The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) · Do You Want to Build a Snowman? · Feliz Navidad · Happy Xmas (War Is Over) · I'll Be Home for Christmas · Last Christmas · Mary Did You Know? · Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer · Santa Baby · Silent Night · White Christmas · Winter Wonderland · and more.

In the Building Finger Strength section of this book we will cover 12 different finger-strengthening exercises. Practice these exercises slowly and accurately before trying to build speed. On the optional practice-along recordingyou will find three different tempos for each individual exercise. This is to help you build up your speed and your finger strength one step at a time. Obviously beginners should start with the slow tempo. I also believe that themore advanced students should start with the slow tempo to build accuracy. I found when recording these exercises for the practice-along recording that the slowest tempo was the hardest to execute with no mistakes. Diligentpractice will build flexibility and strength! In the latter section of this book (26 ii-V-I Progressions) we will be looking at 26 different ways to play the ii V I chord progression. We will be working in the key of C.The ii chord is Dm7 the V chord is G7 and the I chord is C. It is recommended that you transpose these into other keys. These studies can be used for ear training and to facilitate improvisation on standard chord progressions.