12 Folk Songs for Guitar Ensemble
Twelve Folk Songs for Guitar Ensemble features 12 well-known, much-loved folk tunes from around the British isles. Together they make up a satisfying performance repertoire that allow small groups of guitarist to play together. There are three folk songs from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Rhythm Changes for Jazz Guitar
Improvising over Rhythm Changes was a staple of Charlie Parker's practice regime, and hundreds of jazz tunes have been written using its chords. It is a must-know chord progression for every jazz guitarist, and Rhythm Changes for Jazz Guitar teaches you how to solo on the changes with ease.
Chord Tone Soloing for Jazz Guitar
There are many different bebop chord progressions, but in essence they can be broken down into just thirteen simple structures. Chord Tone Soloing for Jazz Guitar teaches you to how to use arpeggios, extensions, chromatic ideas and substitutions over each of the thirteen essential jazz sequences, and how to combine these building blocks into authentic, melodic solos.Each progression is approached both logically and methodically to build articulate guitar solos from the fundamental principles of jazz guitar. By applying arpeggio-based techniques, and learning to decorate your solos with chromatic ideas, you will quickly learn how to 'play the changes' in a musical and creative way.Chord Tone Soloing for Jazz Guitar helps you build an articulate jazz language around the most important sequences in jazz.
Rhythm and Notation for Drums
Most beginner drum students know a few rhythms and symbols but few actually realize it is quick and easy to expand into effortless competent understanding of how to read drum music and play all the essential techniques. Rhythm and Notation for Drummers is not just a cold list of drum theory, it's a complete guide for beginners that teaches you how to read and write notation for a lifetime of drumming success.
Voice Leading Jazz Guitar
Easily master sophisticated voice leading on guitar - Voice Leading Jazz Guitar teaches you the most important principles of voice leading, substitution, secondary dominant and tritone use to quickly make your jazz rhythm guitar parts musical and rich. Using real life musical examples that you can see and hear, you will quickly learn to open up the fretboard and gain deep insight into chords and harmony.
The Complete Jazz Guitar Soloing Compilation
With hours of audio to download for free, this compilation includes three best-selling books: Fundamental Changes in Jazz Guitar, Minor ii V Mastery and Jazz Blues Soloing for Guitar. They each study three essential jazz chord progressions. The Jazz Blues, The Major ii V I and the Minor ii V i. Each book covers many fundamental concepts in incredible depth, building from first principles right through to advanced substitutions and arpeggio choices.
Chord Tone Soloing for Bass Guitar
Chord Tone Soloing for Bass Guitar teaches you to how to use arpeggios, extensions, chromatic ideas and substitutions over each of the thirteen essential jazz sequences, and how to combine these building blocks into authentic, melodic solos. Each progression is approached both logically and methodically to build articulate bass solos from the fundamental principles of jazz. By applying arpeggio-based techniques, and learning to decorate your solos with chromatic ideas, you will quickly learn how to 'play the changes' in a musical and creative way.
The Complete DADGAD Guitar Method
Starting with getting reliably in tune (with online video bonus content), Simon takes you on a progressive journey through the art of DADGAD Guitar. You will learn open and movable chords, scales and arpeggios in the context of real music, and work your way up to advanced, beautiful techniques like cascading 'harp' open-string scales, finger-picking, harmonics, and even some funk picking!
Sight Reading Mastery for Guitar
Sight Reading Mastery for Guitar contains extensive chapters and exercises that help you achieve mastery of each of these essential elements in a fun, challenging way. Every important major and minor key is covered, as are all the rhythms that you will come across in most normal playing situations.
Progressive Metal Guitar
Progressive Metal Guitar will help you dominate the guitar in the style of the most cutting-edge bands and guitarists of the Progressive Heavy Metal genre. You will learn the tips, tricks, techniques and approaches of the world's best guitarists and the best way to apply them to create exciting dynamic solos and music.
Heavy Metal Lead Guitar
Heavy Metal Lead Guitar teaches you all the essential techniques the modern guitarist must master, but throughout the book each technique is rooted in hundreds of relevant musical examples in the style of your favourite guitarists.
50 Essential Warm-ups for Drums
50 Essential Warm-ups for Drums teaches you the perfect method to approach every practise session, gig, or drum lesson. After covering the fundamentals of stretching, you will learn the essential drum techniques used in each exercise. Once the basics have been nailed you will embark on a concise set of warm-ups that will both loosen you up and build devastating drum technique.
How to Play Guitar 3 in 1 Beginner Series
This three book beginner guitar compilation forms a complete course that will take you from zero to hero as you learn to play the guitar. Discover how to read guitar tab, play essential chords, write chord progressions, and build your fluency and speed on the guitar.
Rock Rhythm Guitar Playing
Rock Rhythm Guitar Playing illustrates the musical components of metal, such as power chords, single-string lines, open and power chord riffs, embellishments and much more using real musical examples.
Funk Guitar Mastery
Funk Guitar Mastery focuses on developing the rhythmic and technical skills needed to develop and understand how a funk guitar part functions and sits in the band. As proficiency is developed, funky chords, riffs, techniques and approaches are added to get you grooving like a pro.
Minor ii V Mastery for Jazz Guitar
Minor ii V Mastery is the definitive guide to bebop minor ii V soloing for guitar. Following hot on the heels of the best selling "Fundamental Changes for Jazz Guitar" this book delves deep into all the major soloing approaches to the minor ii V i chord progression. Beginning from basic first principles such as chord arpeggios, chromatic approach notes, extended arpeggios and target notes, Minor ii V Mastery goes on to cover the more exciting and advanced melodic concepts used by all the great bebop jazz guitarists.
Creative Bass Technique Exercises
Creative Bass Technique Exercises is much more than a cold set of drills. It gets into the detail of great technique without losing sight of the music. It will help you play without pain or strain and avoid problems in the future. It also gives great insights into effective practice methods.
100 Classic Blues Licks for Guitar
100 Classic Blues Licks for Guitar is different to every other guitar lick book available. It's not simply a cold list of licks, it is a breakdown of the playing styles of the world's most important blues guitarists. You won't just copy lines verbatim, you'll internalize the language of the blues guitar masters and incorporate it into your everyday playing.
Scales You Can Use!
ABOUT SCALES YOU CAN USEScales You Can Use! is the latest GMI publication from guitarist and GMI lead tutor Ged Brockie. This 152 full colour book distils his thirty five year guitar playing experience which has covered every conceivable musical scenario. Learn the scale patterns that are both powerful and meaningful and really make the difference. This thought through method includes a template system of learning that acts as a force multiplier for your learning and understanding.WHAT'S IN THE BOOKA full colour publication offered in physical print, ePub and PDF Download form, 154 pages long.An easy to understand template system that enables you to learn and play major, natural, harmonic and melodic minor scales over the entire neck in seven positions.OTHER BOOK HIGHLIGHTS Scales You Can Use! includes tutorials and shows you how to play pentatonics in 10 different keys in one position. Learn how you can play in fourteen keys in one position using modal scales giving you complete musical control over key changes! Included are fret maps which detail a simple to understand root based system in two key positions giving you complete understanding. Theoretical explanations of pentatonic, major, melodic and harmonic minor, blues, chromatic, whole tone and diminished scales. A suite of "exotic" scales are also included for those that are looking to learn patterns that are on the fringe. Original music examples in music and TAB provided throughout Scales You Can Use! to ensure that you really learn the patterns shown. Open string patterns cover major, minor, pentatonic and blues scales. If you think you know what the cycle of fifths is about, then think again! Scales You Can Use! shows again and again how you can use this to the max! BOOK COMPOSITION Divided into three chapters - Open Scale Patterns - Fretted Scale Patterns - Symmetrical Scale Patterns, each section within these chapters includes blank chord boxes and staff/TAB sheets for your own workings and examples. Traversing the entire neck in one key, playing round the cycle of fifths in one position, major, harmonic and minor scale comparison sheets are in there to give you the best chance of getting your scalar knowledge together once and for all! Modes are also covered and demystified showing you how to both create and apply these often misunderstood patterns. All three chapters are backed up by our Youtube videos viewable via QR codes so you can view the scales being demonstrated by GMI's Ged Brockie.
The Beginner Classical Guitar Method
Build Perfect Classical Guitar Technique While Developing Your Repertoire- A clear concise guide to perfect classical guitar technique- Contains warm-up exercises and melodies- Introduction to arpeggios, scales and harmonised chords- Teaches students famous classical guitar pieces by the masters- Learn dozens of beautiful etudes and expand your performance repertoire- Analysis and playing guidance for each pieceThe Beginner Classical Guitar Method- Would you like to play classical guitar, but don't know where to start?- Would you like a guide that not only helps perfect technique, but teaches you to play achievable, complete pieces?- Want to discover the simple golden rules of classical guitar playing?The Beginner Classical Guitar Method is a clear, concise guide to perfecting classical guitar technique. Included are helpful warm-up exercises, including melodies and arpeggio work-outs. After working on technique, readers are guided through a series of etudes, examples illustrating specific techniques and over 30 complete pieces to play. Here's What You Get: - A comprehensive guide to perfecting classical guitar technique- Playing advice and guidance for each piece, from fingering to playing positions- Over 30 complete pieces you can immediately add to your repertoire- Perfectly notated examples with tab, and studio-quality audio to download for free. The Perfect Foundation for a Lifetime of Classical GuitarThe Beginner Classical Guitar Method is not a sterile list of instructions and exercises to tick off. Written by accomplished player and teacher Ross Trottier, this book communicates his passion for the classical guitar repertoire, and provides expert insight into these timeless pieces. With Ross' guidance, the 30+ etudes in this great resource come to life. Hear it!The Beginner Classical Guitar Method contains over 100 supporting audio examples, so you can hear exactly how each piece should sound.Buy it now to begin crafting your classical guitar skills.
First Pieces for Classical Guitar
Master 20 Beautiful Classical Guitar Pieces for Beginners. No Need to Read Music- Learn 20 great classical guitar pieces written by legends of the instrument- Presented in easy-to-read tablature and notation. No need to read music- Includes helpful analysis and breakdown of each piece, along with its historical background- FREE audio download - hear how each piece sounds to speed up your learning- Carefully selected pieces start easy and gradually become more complex - improve naturally as the book progressesFirst Pieces for Classical Guitar- Do you want to learn classical guitar, but don't know how to read music?- Do you want to build an impressive repertoire of complete pieces, but don't know where to start?- Do you want to develop style and authenticity on the classical guitar? First Pieces for Classical Guitar features 20 carefully selected pieces - each written by a past master of the instrument - aimed at beginners who want to learn to play entire, beautiful pieces. The natural progression of the studies from beginner to intermediate will help you develop your classical guitar language quickly and easily. Notation is included, but each piece is also presented in easy-to-read tablature, so an ability to read music is not necessary. Here's What You Get: - 20 beautiful, incremental classical guitar studies- Playing advice and a breakdown of each classical guitar piece- Perfectly notated music and guitar tablature with studio-quality audio to download for free. Go Beyond Traditional Guitar Lick BooksThis collection of classical pieces develops a satisfying performance repertoire for the advancing beginner, while progressively developing musical technique as the pieces progress.The music is drawn from some of the most famous and influential composers for the guitar, including...CarulliGiulianiCarcassiFernando SorT獺rregaJ.S. BachMarschner ...along with two traditional folk song arrangements.These 20 classical guitar masterpieces are presented in clear notation and tablature, along with a complete technical breakdown.This book is for students who have a passion to learn classical guitar, but do not necessarily read music. Hear it!Learning classical guitar pieces from paper is one thing, but once you hear them, they become much easier to learn. First Pieces for Classical Guitar contains supporting audio for each track, to help you get inside the music and quickly improve your ability.Buy it now to bring the authentic language of the classical guitar into your playing.
First Steps in Classical Piano
First Steps in Classical Piano is the beginning of your journey to playing beautiful classical piano pieces. Either as a stand-alone guide, or as a resource to support lessons with your piano teacher, First Steps in Classical Piano will dramatically speed up how you learn to play piano. You will quickly master excerpts from iconic classical piano pieces, while learning to read music, play scales and develop piano technique.
200 Paradiddle Exercises for Drums
200 Paradiddle Exercises For Drums examines the four most common paradiddle-based drum rudiment patterns and combines them into over 200 meaningful exercises, drum beats and fills. You'll also learn how to combine paradiddle patterns to create unlimited useful phrases on drums.
Guitar Scales in Context
With over 50 backing tracks, each scale for the guitar is analysed, discussed and shown in the five most commonly used patterns. Each scale shape is combined with corresponding chord, triad and arpeggio pattern to help you build and memorise the scale; physically, mentally and aurally.
Fingerstyle Blues Guitar
Break down the challenging yet rewarding genre of blues guitar step-by-step, from your first finger independence exercises right through to complete studies that seamlessly combine chords, bass lines and melodies into full pieces of music.
Fundamental Changes in Jazz Guitar
Aimed at the intermediate guitarist or first time jazz soloist, this important and comprehensive work takes the student from first principles right through to advanced substitutions and extensions that can be played over each chord of the progression.
Learn to Play Drums Volume 2
Learn to Play Drums Volume 2 is the second book in the highly successful Learn to Play Drums series. These are the most in-depth guides to building modern drum technique available for beginners. You will discover essential techniques, rhythms, grooves and exercises that build and internalise the fundamentals of modern drumming and learn important advanced playing skills.
Intermediate Pieces for Classical Guitar
Intermediate Pieces for Classical Guitar features 20 carefully selected pieces aimed at Intermediate players who want to learn to play entire pieces. The natural progression of the studies will help you develop your classical guitar language quickly and easily. Notation is included, but each piece is also presented in easy-to-read tablature, so the ability to read music is not necessary.
I’ll Never Love Again
The beautifully unique, melancholic ballad from 2018's remake of A Star Is Born, starring Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga, has been arranged for easy piano. This arrangement includes the vocal melody and a simple yet expressive accompaniment.
How to Read Guitar Tablature
How to Read Guitar Tablature is the ideal music stand companion and gig bag essential. Never be confused again by the odd signs and abbreviations that appear in tab, and expand your technique repertoire as you learn.
Bass Heroes
From the publisher of Electric Bass Guitar comes Bass Heroes - interviews with 30 of the world's greatest bass players. It's a collection of interviews spanning the past 25 years, adapted from Guitar Player magazine. The interviews here feature some of the best players who ever lived, regardless of stylistic leanings. Divided into rock, jazz, studio and pop, and blues and funk, all the greats are included...from Monk and Montgomery to Paul McCartney to James Jamerson and John Patitucci. This book also features private lessons with luminaries such as Billy Sheehan. These select musicians come alive in their own words as they discuss topics ranging from early musical influences to unique playing and recording techniques and their favorite basses and amps. 8-1/2″ X 11″. 208 pages. 30 photos.
Fender
A behind-the-scenes account of the Fender Electric Instrument Company by its former general manager. White traces the company's entire history, from Leo Fender's beginnings as a radio repairman up to the eventual sale of Fender to CBS, and beyond. Includes stories about the development of the Telecaster, Precision Bass, and Stratocaster, as well as insights into Leo Fender's unique personality. It is packed with more than 100 historic photos and illustrations, instrument diagrams and specifications, and anecdotes about artists such as Merle Travis, Bob Wills, Speedy West, and Tex Ritter. 7-1/4″ x 9-1/4″.
Guitar Pedals
Guitar Tone Guru Rob Thorpe Gives a complete rundown on every type of guitar pedal, and answers all these questions and more in Guitar Pedals: Mastering Guitar Effects. If you have ever wrestled with your tone, this book is for you.
Country Guitar Heroes - 100 Country Licks for Guitar
100 country licks for guitar goes way beyond most normal 'boring' lick books... you will learn authentic country guitar licks "In the style of" the 20 greatest country guitarists...ever. What's more, you'll learn how to form their licks into your own personal language... in any key and in any style.
Martin Taylor Walking Basslines for Jazz Guitar
Walking Basslines for Jazz Guitar teaches you Martin Taylor's own secret method for building a rock solid walking bassline on any jazz standard. You'll become a one-instrument rhythm section and be perfectly placed to accompany singers and soloists in a duo setting.
Country Guitar for Beginners
Country Guitar for Beginners is a complete guide to help beginners master elements of the country genre. Split into two sections, this book is designed to develop chord playing, rhythm guitar skills and lead guitar solos.
100 Indie Rock Riffs for Guitar
The Indie Rock revolution changed the landscape of modern music forever and paved the way for many great guitar players who may not otherwise have been heard. 100 Indie Rock Riffs for Guitar unpacks the playing styles of Indie rock's 20 most influential guitarists in a way that will grow your ability as a player.
Delta Blues Slide Guitar
Delta Blues Slide Guitar is a complete guide to the techniques and music of "bottleneck" acoustic blues - a genre that can be traced back over 100 years to the Mississippi Delta. It's where blues guitar was first heard over 60 years before Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton and others brought it to the masses.
The Country Fingerstyle Guitar Method
Master Fingerstyle Country Guitar and Learn the Styles of the Greatest Country Guitar Players
100 Classic Jazz Licks for Guitar
100 Classic Jazz Licks for Guitar goes much further than other lick books. Rather than a cold list of licks with little explanation, this book contains an in-depth insight into the playing styles of the world's most influential jazz guitarists. You won't just copy licks parrot fashion - you'll learn the concepts behind the licks and be able to incorporate these ideas into your everyday playing.
Modern Jazz Guitar Concepts
Modern Jazz Guitar Concepts provides an in-depth insight into the modern jazz guitar techniques you'll hear in the music of Kurt Rosenwinkel, Adam Rogers, Jonathan Kriesberg, Gilad Hekselman, Lage Lund and others.
10 Classical Pieces for Guitar Ensemble
Ten Classical Pieces for Guitar Ensemble features 10 well-known, much-loved classical pieces. Together they make up a satisfying performance repertoire for small groups of guitarist to play together. It is often difficult to find works by the great composers written specifically for guitar ensemble, so this book is an essential resource for teachers and students alike.
Bass Technique Finger Gym
Whether you play rock, jazz, blues or funk, all bassists come up against the same pain points. The Bass Technique Finger Gym will build your skills and develop your finesse in an organic and musical way. Over 130 essential bass technique exercises are included to help you build speed and fluency along with exciting musical studies to consolidate your skills.
The Complete Guide to Playing Blues Guitar Book One - Rhythm Guitar
Every aspect of playing great blues guitar is covered, building from first principles such as blues rhythm, riffs, structure and fills, to more advanced techniques such as approach chords, shell chords and 'drop two' chord voicings.
The Caged System and 100 Licks for Blues Guitar
Whether you want a complete method to learn blues guitar or just a set of 100 excellent blues guitar licks, this book has you covered. Most guitarists stay locked into the same patterns and scale shapes for years, unable to break out of the habits and licks they first learnt as a beginner. This leads to creative stagnation, boring solos and a sense that something will always be missing from their playing.
The Complete Guide to Playing Blues Guitar Book Three - Beyond Pentatonics
Sometime it seems like our favourite blues guitar players simply have more notes to choose from... those notes that just make you go 'ahhhh'! The truth is that they are often simply targeting the right note at exactly the right time. The Complete Guide to Blues Guitar Beyond Pentatonics shows you how to add these secret notes into your own playing.
The Complete Guide to Playing Blues Guitar - Compilation
The Complete Guide to Playing Blues Guitar is a three-part series that teaches you the essential skills required to become a master blues guitarist. You save 15% when you purchase all three best-selling books in this one edition!
How to Play Rock Guitar
HOW TO PLAY ROCK GUITAR - THE BASICS AND BEYOND REVISED 2ND EDITION
