This chord dictionary from the assistant chair of Berklee's guitar department includes 100+ chord forms from basic 7th chords to guide tone chords and triads over bass notes. It is organized to reveal chord relationshipsand help guitarists learn voicings quickly and thoroughly. Includes notes fretboard diagrams and tab for each chord.

Learn how to play in the style of guitar greats such as Jeff Beck Mike Stern Kenny Burrell Joe Pass Stevie Ray Vaughan and other players. This workshop will help you develop your own approaches and phrase your own solos by using the techniques of master guitar players. Learn to play rock blues jazz funk Latin or R

Learn ten jazz guitar standards arranged for solo guitar. These performance-ready arrangements demonstrate different ways to interpret jazz standards and render them for solo guitar performance. Each includes a technicalintroduction from the arranger discussing his motivations and identifying some of the defining aspects of each approach such as the use of line cliché harmony song form and modality. In learning these arrangements youwill gain insight into how to craft your own solos.

From Bach to Bebop-In Jazz Guitar Fretboard Navigation Mark White will help you to develop a fingerboard facility that fuses the great navigational conception of the classical Guitar tradition with the improvisational on-the-fly solo content/language of the modern jazz guitarist to create an overall fingerboard concept that is flexible and rich. The result is a complete approach to the Guitar fingerboard that combines vertical orientations mixed with side-to-side and diagonal phrasing. Each Bach/bebop pair of arrangements presents similar fingering concepts so that you can see how they are applicable across styles. This comprehensive BerkleeGuide teaches a continuity in fingering concepts that you can apply to all Guitar traditions. The accompanying online recordings include demonstration and play-along tracks such as Guitar duets and jazz combos. Traditional fingering and tablature are included.

Country Guitar Styles - 2nd Edition. Learn those beautiful hot licks and fingerpicking patterns of country music. You'll learn all about the various types of country music, from classic to current-from Western Swing to bluegrass and everywhere between. Get beyond the cowboy chords to more complex arrangements, signature opening licks, and solos that characterize today's country hits. Online audio tracks illustrate these licks and concepts in context, and the book shows you exactly how to play them. You will learn how to play: Single and double-note lead style: Rhythm guitar styles: String bending, including single-, double-, and triple-note bends: Triadic pedal steel styles: Fingerpicking technique: Western swingstyle: Bluegrass lead and rhythm style: Sound effects, to make your guitar sound like a marimba, Theremin, banjo, and more! Learn those beautiful hot licks and fingerpicking patterns of country music. You'll learn all about the various types of country music, from classic to current-from Western Swing to bluegrass and everywhere between. Get beyond the cowboy chords to more complex arrangements, signature opening licks, and solos that characterize today's country hits. Online audio tracks illustrate these licks and concepts in context, and the book shows you exactly how to play them. You will learn how to play: Single and double-note lead style: Rhythm guitar styles: String bending, including single-, double-, and triple-note bends: Triadic pedal steel styles: Fingerpicking technique: Western swingstyle: Bluegrass lead and rhythm style: Sound effects, to make your guitar sound like a marimba, Theremin, banjo, and more!

This is the first book of this 3-volume series which aims to be a practical and comprehensive guitar instruction programme. Includes studies chord forms and rhythm accompaniment. Book only edition.