Instruments Instruction category: 8118 books

In this book and online audio, master jazz guitarist Frank Vignola has taken eight different jazz standard chord progressions and recorded rhythm guitar parts so you can play along and learn these most commonly used chord progressions. He has also written out a jazz solo for each of the eight tunes....

Arpeggios m6, m7b5, m7, m9, m11, m13, mmaj7. Five shapes (diagrams represented vertically) with note names, intervals and fingering. Shapes in all keys with the CAGED System. 35 tabs in the key of C (with fingering and pick stroke for sweeping). 35 audio-tracks plus drum loops and backing tracks online (direct link under each tab).

(Trumpet Instruction). If you want to work on your trumpet chops, this is the book for you! These 75 exercises will help you build your endurance and flexibility, challenging you in fun, interesting and methodical ways. Topics covered include: articulation; dynamics; range; breath management; finger & lip flexibility; double & triple tonguing; scales; arpeggios; and more!

Kesh is a lovely Irish folk tune which works well at slow and fast tempos. The piece is suitable for Electric guitar, Acoustic guitar, Plectrum and Fingerstyle guitar so accelerate your guitar playing with this famous folk tune. Learn to make the guitar 'speak' and how to work fast and in...

Withheld by leading pedagogues in an effort to control competition, the art of reed making in the early 20th century has been shrouded in secrecy, producing a generation of performers without reed making fluency. While tenets of past decades remain in modern pedagogy, Christin Schillinger details...

So you want to learn to play the guitar?  You know that it will take practice. You know it will need investment of time.  But where do you start? After all there are a plethora of tuition books out there. How do you choose?  LOOK NO FURTHER THAN LEARN TO PLAY GUITAR WITH EASE. ...

Sight Reading: The Rhythm Book is a graded workbook for instrumentalists and vocalists designed to develop sight reading and rhythmic skills by presenting a course of progressive lessons and studies specifically aimed at these areas. Many different rhythmic groupings and writing styles and clearly...

Reaching and Teaching All Instrumental Music Students draws from credible research and established approaches to offer practical applications for the variety of music classrooms teachers face today, many of which are not ideal. Kevin Mixon shares successful techniques for recruiting and retention,...

As opposed to Complete Piano Photo Chords, this edition encompasses only the most commonly used chords that you will find in BLUES music. All photos are shown in the left hand, except where two hands are necessary. A vivid graphic illustrates the location of the notes and a list of note names and...

A collection, for fiddle, of over 200 great bluegrass, old time, country and gospel standards played by jammers and performers all over the world! Melodies are presented with standard notation, lyrics and chords. Learn to play songs written and recorded by the giants of traditional American...

Christmas Crosspicking Solos for Guitar features 31 arrangements of the most popular and best-loved traditional Christmas songs for crosspicking guitar. Chords, melodies (in tablature and standard notation) and lyrics are presented, as well as extensive instruction in the crosspicking style. Recordings...

This Mel Bay Qwikguide begins with basic music theory about scales and keys and teaches how to transpose several songs with and without the capo. Then we look at chords in keys and explore some typical chord progressions by swapping numbers (one, four, five) for the chord names (D, G, A). Finally...

A collection of over 200 great Bluegrass, Old Time, Country and Gospel standards. Melodies are presented with standard notation and tablature along with lyrics and chords. Learn to play songs written and recorded by the giants of traditional American music: Bill Monroe, The Stanley Brothers,...

Crosspicking is a stunning and beautiful guitar technique played with a flatpick. It has a unique sound that in some ways mimics a three-finger guitar or five-string banjo roll yet is completely different from either. "Old-Time Gospel Crosspicking Guitar Solos," aimed at intermediate guitar...