Par FOSTER RICK. This book presents sixteen right-hand simplified arrangements of sacred music that can be played with just the thumb or both the thumb and fingers. The first twelve arrangements are written for thumb-only playing and will allow you to appreciate the beauty of simplicity, something often overlooked on the guitar. The music is written in standard notation and tablature. / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Recueil / Guitare

Make the Tune Your Best Friend is a fresh musical approach to jazz improvisation that raises the level of your awareness and provides you with the tools to master this unique language. All aspects of a tuneare looked at: Melody harmony dynamics motif development and much more.You will come to believe in yourself and learn to be true to your own unique musical style and expression. For jazz musicians of all levels and allinstruments.

This is the flagship book in Mel Bay's new Achieving Guitar Artistry series. Herein you will find an extensive collection of linear pieces with interesting melodic content. Frequent performance ofthese etudes will not only enhance technique but offer the Guitarist a wonderful opportunity to improve tone touch and lyrical phrasing.We suggest playing each etude at a slow tempo at first the goal being to achievea clear and beautiful tone on every note. The next objective is to develop a sense of lyrical completeness to each musical phrase. Make the phrases sing! Once you have achieved the desired quality of tone and expression increasethe tempo to work on the technique.The pieces in Linear Guitar Etudes are multi-positional. That is the player will be required to move from position to position on the fingerboard. The music ispresented in standard notation only with left-hand fingering included on the more complex passages and circled numbers to indicate the strings where certain notes and passages are to be played.These etudes sound goodon both nylon and steel-string Guitars and will be a valuable addition to the music library of any Guitarist enhancing their abilities regardless of the style of music played.

Legendary guitarist Pat Martino shares his personal formula for chord conversions with you. This uniquely simple system allows you to think melody not theory. Amply illustrated with some of Pat's favorite lines.

for Modern Jazz Guitar. Par MILLER KEVIN. Since the arrival on the jazz scene of John Coltrane, more and more guitarists are looking to incorporate colors into their language which are more dissonant than those generally heard within the realm of jazz guitar. As improvisers, saxophonists and all woodwind players have a certain advantage in that the keys on their instruments are arranged linearly with one or two chromatic pitches associated with each finger. Compared to the sax, the note locations on the guitar fretboard are much less intuitive. It seems a natural process then, for guitarists to gain fluency in improvisation by studying saxophone lines and articulation techniques.Kevin Miller has studied with several stellar teachers including Vic Juris and Rodney Jones. His knowledge of jazz history and the linear and harmonic techniques of non-guitarist giants of jazz like McCoy Tyner and John Coltrane is truly impressive. He is also very adept at transcribing and analyzing the harmonic concepts and articulation techniques used in saxophone solos and making them palatable to guitarists in notation and tablature.Miller brings it all to bear in this book, focusing on giving you new options originating from jazz masters such as John Coltrane and McCoy Tyner, for dealing with common harmonic situations within the world of jazz such as a stagnant minor chord or II-V-I. These options venture ?outside? of the basic harmonic framework, but usually settle back into the core harmonic territory. Not only is the information made accessible through numerous transcriptions of saxophone lines and techniques, Miller provides ways to internalize this material so it can be used ?in an organic way while improvising'. / Date parution : 2023-06-01/ Etude / Guitare

Scott A. Smith teaches you all the essential blues phrasing techniques and tricks. Learn simple concepts like solo construction, phrasing over a 12-bar blues, the blues scale, pentatonic box patterns, and playing multiple scales over a single chord. Also, learn practical, effective techniques like trills, slides, and rakes. In-depth lessons on bending teach you how to use target notes, initial and destination notes, pre-bends, and how to combine bends with box patterns. The included DVD is hosted by Smith and features live demonstrations of the examples in the book. About the Author For the past three decades, Scott A. Smith has remained a dedicated guitarist, musician, and educator. This native Texan started playing guitar in the late '70s and has worked in a variety of genres, including blues, rock, country, and jazz. Scott is a GIT graduate and was featured in the Mike Varney Spotlight column in Guitar Player magazine. No stranger to the road and stage, this veteran guitarist has traveled near and abroad, performing live, teaching, giving clinics, and spreading his love for the instrument. / Guitare

Do you wonder why lots of practice on scales and arpeggios hasn't made you feel fluent and creative when soloing' If so, then this book is the missing link for you! Line Games is an organized series of practical studies for the development of single-note guitar technique and jazz vocabulary simultaneously. Many examples are transcribed from the recorded solos of great jazz guitarists (Wes Montgomery, Pat Martino, Joe Pass, etc.) and then the book gives you the tools to develop complete fluency in creating similar lines on your own! Randy Vincent's Line Games is a serious, well-conceived book on jazz guitar. It has a tremendous amount of useful information which can be truly helpful to guitarists seeking thorough knowledge and training in jazz music.' ' Kenny Burrell Topics Covered Include: Basic six-note scales commonly used by the jazz greats. How to use all of the chromatic notes to make playing inside the chord changes sound more interesting and melodic. Triad pairs for modern-sounding lines, as used by all the great players from Coltrane on. Exercises that will give you the tools to create many interesting chord extensions from a few simple arpeggios. How to build long lines across many chord changes. How to use thematic development for more cohesive solos. Fingerings often given to aid in getting these lines under your fingers. Plus much more! 156 pages. More Endorsements: This book is probably the most complete explanation of linear improvisation as applied to the guitar that I have come across. Randy Vincent goes into his subjects, which include a novel take on hexatonic applications, chromatic neighbor tones, and various scale forms and arpeggios, with unprecedented thoroughness. It is also refreshing to see the emphasis on thematic development, and I like how some of the great recorded guitar solos are often used as illustrative examples. I highly recommend it.' ' Ben Monder Randy has come up with another Winner. This is one of the most comprehensive studies I have ever encountered concerning single line improvisation!' ' Vic Juris With all the books on jazz improvisation available I didn't think it was possible to find one that offers a new perspective but Randy Vincent's Line Games does just that. It's a great book! There are many real- world examples of players using the archetypal bebop hexatonic sound and many examples of ways to practice and utilize the sound. In suggesting ways of practicing and using the scale Randy gets you started, but it's up to the reader to strike out on their own ' in my opinion the best way to really grasp a sound or concept. There is a whole lot of material here and I'm looking forward to working with it for a long time. Thanks, Randy!!' ' Bruce Saunders With the plethora jazz guitar books on the market today, one must sort through dozens to find one that yields the results of a tried and true method for learning to play jazz as applied to the guitar. I was pleasantly surprised to find a new book that I feel to have such qualities. This being the jazz guitar book written by Randy Vincent called Line Games for Sher Music Co. Inside, you'll find dozens of examples, explanations, techniques, and the application of the jazz language employed by all the great jazz guitarists we know and love. Great job, Randy!' ' Henry Johnson

The composer says: For years, my fellow guitarists have been asking me to compose a solo classical guitar piece that reflects that most American of musical styles'the blues. Their prodding was the motivation for Periwinkle Memories; the inspiration for the piece, however, really came from a maestro of extraordinary skill, and a teacher of even more extraordinary patience, Elias Barreiro, my guitar teacher at the University of New Orleans. I have always tried to emulate in my performances the beauty of his interpretations, and to fuse in my compositions the power and emotion of the blues. The name, Periwinkle Memories was a serendipity. I was struck by the light purplish-blue hue of the periwinkle, and soon learned the history of the funnel-shaped flower (Vinca minor.) Though it now grows wild in parts of the United States it is native to Australia, some consider it an invasive weed, most admire its extraordinary beauty. Common herbicides won't kill it. The periwinkle is too vigorous and hardy for that. And now it is not merely a begrudged part of the American landscape, it is a vibrant part of the American landscape, elegant, stubborn, and nearly native. Like the blues. And like that young recalcitrant student Maestro Barreiro worked so hard to mold so many years ago. Ogden Nash said, 'One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.' Periwinkle Memories is a celebration of Maestro Barreiro, and of both facets of that adage in me. Carlos Barrientos was born on June 25, 1954 in Tela, Honduras. He began his formal music studies at the National Music Conservatory in Guatemala City, Guatemala C.A. His training with Maestro Elias Barreiro, Director of Guitar Studies at Tulane University, was supplemented with Master Classes with Manuel Barrueco, Leo Brouwer, Juan Mercadal, Michael Newman, Tommy Tedesco and Carlos Barbosa-Lima. He studied composition under the tutelage of Dr. Jerry Sieg, University of New Orleans, and Dr. Roy Johnson, Florida State University. He consulted with Michael D. Martin, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Music, Albany State University, Albany, GA in the creation of a recordings library that reflects Western Art Music and American Jazz for the students at Albany State University. The New York Premiere of the First Movement of his Second Guitar Sonata was dedicated to and performed by Classical Guitarist Maestro Carlos Barbosa-Lima in 2003 at Carnegie Hall. At the request of U.S. Senator Bob Graham one of his compositions, Si Tu Te Vas (If You Go Away), was included on a recording to promote The Everglades Trail. In 2004, at the American Church in Paris, France the World Premiere of his Romance for Flute and Guitar was performed by the award-winning Serenade Duo, flutist Michelle LaPorte and guitarist Gerry Saulter. He has performed with such legendary musicians as Herbie Mann, Donald Byrd and Debbie Reynolds, led an on stage Renaissance Trio in a University of New Orleans production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, and played incidental music for their production of Bertold Brecht's The Good Woman of Sichuan. He has performed Carulli's Guitar Concerto in A, Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story and Marvin Hamlish's A Chorus Line with the Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra and Okaloosa-Walton Community College, Niceville, FL, and with the Southern Art Music Ensemble, a Jazz/Latin Fusion Sextet, including an Honors Convocation in Atlanta for Mr. Ted Turner. He has been a guest performer with the Albany State University Jazz Ensemble at The Fletcher Henderson Jr., Macon and Atlanta Jazz Festivals, and played the banjo in the Albany State University /Albany Symphony's co-production of George Gershwin's Opera Porgy and Bes

John Hammond is regarded as one of the most prolific and outstanding solo acoustic blues guitarists on the scene today. His career has spanned more than four decades and he has recorded and appeared on nearly 50 albums. In this in-depth interview taped in 1991 you get an inside glimpse of John's aspirations his style and techniques that distinguish him as a unique and inspiring solo blues guitarist. In four performances John demonstrates and discusses his slide guitar technique finger picking string dampening and his unique use of string effects open tuning and time shifts. He also discusses his vocals and harmonica playing accompanied by 6- or 12-string guitar anddemonstrates in live performances. His intense and seductive harmonica playing creates a mood with riveting vibrato dynamic voicing bending and phrasing. This DVD will keep you riveted to your seat as John reveals his influences aspirations and experience as a solo acoustic blues act. In the accompanying booklet John teaches you licks and phrases from the blues masters both in standard notation and guitar tablature.

Mel Bay’s latest series Guitar Journals is the ultimate reference guide of studies and solos in several different genres. This superb volume on technique covers warm-ups picking studies string skipping tremolo triplets cross-picking intervals linear studies hammer-ons and pull-offs and pick control. All exercises have tunes matched to their particular study and are perfect for the student to professional musician’s everyday use. Amust-have for any guitarist’s library! Hard cover covered spiral binding and premium stock paper make this a volume so beautifully printed and bound and containing so much valuable information that you will treasure it for yearsto come! •Ultimate guide on technique and perfect reference manual for everyday use •Covers warm-ups picking studies string skipping tremolo triplets cross-picking intervals linear studies hammer-ons and pull-offs and pick control •All exercises have solos matched to their particular study •Ideal for the student to professional musician •Beautiful hard cover with covered spiral binding and premium paper

At last a method that covers all the most important aspects of guitar playing and music making in one volume! Containing nearly 200 pages Guitar Works will get you started and take you to an advanced level of musicianship. Players of all levels and styles will benefit from this comprehensive approach.Guitar Works covers: rock blues Latin funk jazz country and other styles; teaches in standard notation and tab; and includes advanced lead techniques such as arpeggios tapping sweep picking and more. Each step-by-step lesson covers harmony and theory rhythm concepts sight-reading scales and techniques. The accompanying CD contains full demos of all essentiallessons.

Explore the Many Sonic Possibilities of the Guitar From Gear to Techniques and Beyond!-This overview of the nearly endless sonic possibilities of the modern guitar shows you how to create a huge variety of analog and digital sounds using a myriad of techniques pedals plugins amps accessories and more. The accompanying 83 audio tracks available for download or streaming online feature demonstrations of each notated sound effect along with specially-composed etudes that put them in a musical context. Topics covered include: reverb & delay looping wah wah distortion compressions studio effects slide guitar sweep & economy picking alternate tunings & capos tapping harmonics bends and much more!