This guide to playing modern and traditional electric country lead guitar includes access to audio demo tracks online for download or streaming. Topics covered include: pentatonic and other scales - string bending - hybrid picking - chicken pickin - flatpicking - pickin on the low strings - steel guitar - double stops - triad basics - banjo rolls - open-string cascades - cow jazz - intros and endi…

For all levels, instrumentalists and vocalists. Hear David Liebman solo over every scale listed in the Scale Syllabus. He solos on two versions of each scale: the first is slow and simple, and the second is more complex and fast. Stereo separation allows you to practice and improvise too! David is on one channel and Jamey is on the other. An excellent list of piano voicings are included.
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Beginner's Guide to Electric Guitar is all you need to start playing electric guitar. With an easy-to-understand and down-to-earth tone, this book gets to the important stuff first and doesn't bog you down with all the details. Learn all about the different types of electric guitars, amplifiers, and effects, and learn how to play like Led Zeppelin, The White Stripes, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Gre…

Par RAE JAMES. 18 studies written to develop familiarity with the main types of scales and arpeggios in Jazz. More enjoyable than the scales themselves, James Rae has deliberately chosen keys that give a comfortable, user-friendly introduction to the various tonalities. Each section describes a particular type of scale and includes studies based on it. Included are: the major scale, the dorian mod…

Master shredder Terry Syrek makes it easy to become a rock lead-guitar virtuoso. Discover monster chop-building exercises and the secret to mind-bending, super-fast, sweep-picking licks. Plus, make creative use of the pentatonic scale and other scales you wouldn't necessarily think of using. 48 pages. DVD running time: 60 minutes. / Guitare

Know only 20 banjo solo licks? How about 50? 100? 200? If that's all, then you need this book, designed to help you improvise bluegrass style banjo solos. These 400 licks are played over standard chord progressions- the use of licks sometimes will take precedent over stating the melody. The progressions used are based primarily on common vocal numbers. Some of the licks included are: chromatic lic…

This book is great for acoustic guitarists who have learned the basics and are ready to take the next step. Beginning with a brief review of reading standard music notation and TAB, this book takes you further into three major areas of study: sounds, grooves and special techniques- theory and improvisation- and alternate tunings. You'll be introduced to a variety of styles including acoustic funk,…

Start taking your fusion playing to the next level with an injection of jazz and practical theory. Lessons by Levi Clay.In this excellent DVD, Levi Clay introduces the jazzy sounding melodic minor scale based on the sound, teaching you how to hear this scale in music. After taking you through simple ways to introduce this harmony into your improvisations via the pentatonic scale, Levi teaches you …

Jazz Play-Along Vol.47. Tous niveaux amusantes et éducatives ! Explore les principes fondamentaux de jouer les changements de rythme (I Got Rhythm) dans toutes les clés. Pendant des décennies, les grands du jazz ont utilisé ces progressions comme tremplins de nouvelles interprétations et improvisations. Charlie Parker pratiqué I Got Rhythll 12 touches et enregistre ces progressions à 28 reprises !…

Frank Gambale est un des joueurs plus distinctifs de guitare sur la secne. Il sonne comme un hybride heureux de l'amour du jazz joueur de lignes harmoniques, amour du joueur métal arpèges et un ton legato chantant complet, comme si les George Benson, Malmsteen et Holdworth ont collaboré sur un solo unique. Le livre technique se penche sur la façon dont Gambale solos de cordal harmonies. La méthode…

Par CHRISTIANSEN MIKE. Absolutely a landmark text! Author Mike Christiansen spent countless hours researching the scale forms used in all major musical idioms and also those found in other non-Western musical cultures. In addition to a myriad of scale forms (both conventional and rare) for major, minor, pentatonic, and blues, in-depth sections are contained on modes symmetrical altered scales, exo…

The mastery of scales and scale patterns has long been established as the best way to improve technical abilities on all instruments. The Complete Scale Compendium focuses on what is most common in the study of classical music: core major and minor scales, as well as chromatic, pentatonic, whole-tone, and blues scales. Students will learn the construction of these scales while practicing unique pa…

Pieces, exercises and tips for the beginner. This step-by-step tutor is designed for players of all ages at an early stage of their studies, having mastered the main keyboard functions and with a foundation of basic music reading and playing skills in place, and follows on directly from Introducing Electronic Keyboard - part 1. Suitable for use either with a teacher or by self-learners, this book …

Par JACKSON JAKE / BROWN ALAN. All great solos have their roots in scales. A solid grounding across the keys - knowing your Harmonic Minor from your Melodic, understanding the diffference between a Pentatonic Major or Minor scale - with practice for good muscle memory will make your guitar sing like a guitar hero's! With notation and TAB. / Etudes et exercices / Etude / Guitare