Media Type : Book/CD Set Level : Intermediate Musical Genre : All Styles Series : Mastering Guitar Number of pages : 144 Mastering the Guitar is an innovative, comprehensive method for learning the guitar. Level 2 Book C includes a wealth of challenging and creative guitar solos, duets and studies in the keys of A-flat,F-minor, G-minor,D-flat, and B-flat minor. Special concepts presented in this volume include: basic improvisation, rhythmic variation, barre chords, key of A-flat/closed position, passing tone studies, harmonized scales, western swing, fingerstyle performance, chord progression studies, blues, chords, common rock and blues licks, bass string chords, Latin rhythms, and comping. Guitar solo material provided in rock, jazz, bluegrass, Latin, blues, Baroque, Renaissance, and from a wide variety of historical periods and contemporary musical styles. Mastering the Guitar 2C Double CD set is a recording to accompany the volume of the same title. These CDs contain most all of the solo and duet settings found in the book as performed by William Bay, Mike Christiansen, and John McClellan.

Ultimate Play-Along for Guitar has been developed so that the beginner to intermediate level guitarist can practice in different styles along with all-star musicians including Mike Stern on guitar, John Patitucci on bass and Dave Weckl on drums. This book and CDs package contains two CDs: the first disc contains seven complete rhythm tracks with the guitar melodies and solos, and the second CD contains the rhythm tracks minus the guitar. The book features complete transcriptions of all of Mike Stern's guitar parts and solos, as well as tear-out roadmap charts for each tune.

Carl Fischer Music's best-selling Guitar Grimoire series from Adam Kadmon has swept away all others in the world of guitar and bass pedagogy and the new pocket-size edition makes it easier than ever for players to consult its wealth of information on the go. The Carl Fischer Case Book Series features guitar case-sized versions containing the complete contents of the original but have been rearranged and condensed to a more gig bag friendly size. These volumes are simply essential for guitar players containing complete scales and modes along with thousands of diagrams charts and graphs; a professional reference for years of use. 'Why study from animitator when you can learn from the innovator?'

Par HAHN JERRY. This jazz guitar book is a compilation of three books formerly published as Volume 1 - Scales and Exercises, Volume 2 - Patterns and Solos and Volume 3 - Improvisation Course and Chord Studies. This comprehensive edition covers all of the facets of jazz guitar study including all of the primary scales and arpeggios in five positions. There are several exercises to help increase technical facility including an excellent cross-picking exercise. Also there is a large single line section that includes jazz vocabulary and ideas to be played over certain chords and progressions. Learning and memorizing these single line studies expands the student's improvisational concepts and technique. The chord section includes the primary chord forms found in jazz and contemporary music as well as examples of turn-arounds, variations on twelve bar blues, and modal comping. The harmonized bass line section has four chord studies in a Freddie Green style. The Improvisation Course is a unique systematic approach to teaching improvisation. It consists of four lessons that has the student write out solos (with out an instrument) utilizing certain rules. The material in this book will provide a solid foundation for the aspiring jazz guitar student and has been used as the primary text for the jazz guitar programs at Portland State University and Wichita State University. / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Jazz - Methods / Méthode / Guitare

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

A collection of 28 Ernesto Nazareth compositions expertly transcribed for classic guitar solo. One of the major difficulties in trying to arrange Ernesto Nazareth?s themes for any instrument but the piano is to separatethe melodic line from its accompaniment: both are so closely together (that is one of the strongest characteristics of his pianistic style of composition) that it becomes almost impossible to treat one of the features disregardingthe other. If one did that the result would be only a pale and incomplete portrait of what was intended by the composer. That thought has guided us in the making of this book. In spite of the huge obstacles that resulted from thetransposition of a piece originally written for the piano a very rich instrument regarding the expressive recourses to the more 'modest' guitar we always kept in mind our principal intention: to preserve at the most all themelodic dialogues of the scores in special the ones between the melody and the bass line both the elements that form the soul of Nazareth?s compositions. We obviously had to do some changes. Thus for instance in somearrangements it was necessary to transpose the original key to a more appropriate one (at the guitar view-point of course). Some phrases or fragments had also to be written an octave higher or lower (that can be perfectlyunderstandable if we consider the very wide melodic range of the piano and the extensive way with which Nazareth uses it). Needless to say that all those recourses were used only when it has been strictly necessary. Despite thefact that those 28 pieces are only a little portion of Nazareth?s work this group of arrangements represents a good and representative panel. Among them there are some of Nazareth?s greatest hits ('Apanhei-te Cavaquinho' 'Odeon' 'Brejeiro' 'Ameno Resedá' etc.) as well as other not so known compositions but no less beautiful and important. Listening to those pieces one can observe the compositional talent of Nazareth and his incredible

Classical Guitar Solos - Favorite Sonatinas. In this book, guitarist and music historian David Grimes presents 20 ?small sonatas? or sonatinas, complete with detailed performance notes and bio sketches of each of the contributing composers: Leonhard von Call, Matteo Carcassi, Ferdinando Carulli, Mauro Giuliani, Francesco Molino, and Antonio Nava. While flexible, the early 19th-century sonatina form usually consists of 2 - 4 contrasting movements, here in guitar-friendly keys, making these pieces ideal for performance by intermediate-level students. In all but the most challenging passages, Grimes has intentionally kept fingering to a minimum to allow students to form their own concept of this critical skill. Then, as many bass notes in these pieces are played on open strings, the player must develop a sense of when to selectively damp dissonant tones or observe a rest? exposing and overcoming yet another shortcoming in the education of many guitarists. Most classic guitar teachers are familiar with the easy didactic studies by Carcassi, Carulli and Giuliani; Favorite Sonatinas offers more highly developed, but not yet virtuoso pieces by the same Italian triumvirate? plus three more composers in a similar vein? promoting confident, enjoyable sight-reading by guitarists of all levels.

Make advanced Guitar harmonies more intuitive and effective. This inventive approach to imagining and organizing notes will expand your concept of Guitar harmony.You will be able to organize and use tensions more easilyand with greater expression whether you are soloing playing in a rhythm section or in a solo Guitar context. Practical etudes over popular chord changes will help you to understand and apply these new theoreticalconcepts.The accompanying recording includes examples and play-along tracks featuring innovative guitarists Mick Goodrick and Tim Miller along with an all-star rhythm section featuring Terri Lyne Carrington on Drums andJohn Lockwood on Bass.You will learn to: develop and apply new chord voicings using a rich palette of notes; isolate and organize the most essential notes of any chord-scale (Generic Modality Compression); view chordscales as five families of 3-note chords: triads sus4 clusters 7th no 3 and 7th no 5) to be used systematically and simultaneously; leverage this chord-scale organization to lead you to inventive harmonies; incorporatetensions more intuitively into your comping and lead lines; and use new arpeggio patterns in linear improvisation.

With a new introduction by Woody MannJazz and blues guitarist Woody Mann learned from the legendary Rev. Gary Davis and then played and recorded with Son House Bukka White and John Fahey. He has performed throughout the world recorded over a dozen CDs and is an internationally renowned guitar teacher.Six great lessons from the masters of rockabilly guitar:Lesson 1: Arlen Roth-shows you Travis picking heel damping and alternating bass licksLesson 2:James Burton-the legendary pioneer of rockabilly teaches techniques from his days with Ricky NelsonLesson 3: Danny Gatton-teaches pick-and finger style trills and special chordsLesson 4: Brain Setzer-ex-Stary Cats-shows you hisspecial tricksLesson 5: Joe Dalton-country and rockabilly specialist Joe demonstrates hot chromatic runs double stop licks and arpeggiosLesson 6: Scotty Anderson-gives you an intense workout on Chet Atkins fingerstyle guitar andboogie licksYou'll never miss a note!-You see the music and the tablature on screen as it's being played!-All right- and left-hand techniques are shown in close-up and with helpful split-screen effects to make learning easy-Slowmotion segments with standard pitch sound-Artist biographies-Suggested listening-Booklet with music examples included

Written by a master of Hawaiian Slack-Key Guitar this text teaches the history tunings and other techniques found in Slack-Key Guitar music. Because of the altered tunings in Slack-Key Guitar music all of the examples andexercises in this text have been written in tab only.Topics discussed are: right and left hand technique alternating bass slides pull-offs hammering harmonics and other Slack-Key related topics. Recordings of nineexercises from the book which demonstrates these techniques (with tunings) are provided on an accompanying audio online. Beautiful black and white photos of native Hawaiian musicians are scattered throughout the text.

Well-respected educator and best-selling author Jerry Snyder has put together the most versatile guitar method available. This comprehensive method for classroom or individual study comes in two sections: the first section teaches chords and accompaniment, while the second teaches note reading. This flexible method allows you to start with either section or use both sections simultaneously. The Teacher's Guide helps the instructor develop and organize a guitar class curriculum and provides background on the guitar class, teaching tips, elements of music and how to address the National Standards for Arts Education. The Teacher's Guide also includes 48 pages of reproducible worksheets. The ensemble book offers graded duets, trios and quartets as well as optional parts for bass.

In this DVD El shares his insights on music and guitar playing along with his evocative and distinctive guitar style. His music ranges from Celtic songs and dance tunes through alternating-bass Americana sacred music pop tunes and his original compositions.

In this Mel Bay publication guitarist/composer Rico Stover offers his original composition Romance Variations in a 25 page score of the work with accompanying audio.The RomanceAnonimo ('Anonymous Romance') is one of the most popular pieces in the classical guitar repertoire. Also known as Spanish Romance Romance de Amor Jeux interdits and Estudio de Rubira this 19th centurywork has continually delighted lovers of the instrument around the world and has become a standard part of guitar pedagogy.Different 'flavors' of guitar styles are heard in these variations which are inspired byguitarists/composers whom Rico admires: Mateo Carcassi Joe Pass Heitor Villalobos Luiz Bonfa Chet Atkins and Atahualpa Yupanqui.After a short introduction the Romance theme is heard after which the variations commence. Each variation follows the minor/major pattern:Variation 1: Arpegiado - classical arpeggios. Variation 2: Bordoneo - bass line textures. Variation 3: Villalobosiana - in the style of themaster. Variation 4: Bossanova - Brazilian syncopations. Variation 5: Chet's Pick - country style fingerpicking. Variation 6: Aire de Danza - Latin American dance rhythms.The essay 'Romance Anonimo: Who Composed It?'explores the different theories regarding the question of authorship including an analysis of seven different editions of the Romance that date from 1900 to 1958.