Play Along Swing With A Live Band

Take centre stage and play along with a live rhythm section featuring Bass, Drums and Piano This collection features 24 great songs, from Jazz and Blues standards through Soul and Gospel favourites and lively Swing and Latin numbers. The authentic CD backing tracks will help you achieve a more professional performance. What's included: Printed music - 24 pieces in melody line arrangements Two audio CDs - Professional 'soundalike' performances of every piece featuring a live band on CD 1, plus backing tracks to play along with on CD 2. / Flûte Traversière

Take centre stage and play along with a live rhythm section featuring Bass, Drums and Piano.This collection features 24 great songs, from Jazz and Blues standards through Soul and Gospel favourites and lively Swing and Latin numbers.The authentic backing tracks included on the audio download card will help you achieve a more professional performance.What's included:Printed music - 24 pieces in melody line arrangementsDownload Card - Professional 'soundalike' performances of every piece featuring a live band, plus backing tracks to every song, are available to download using the card in the back of the book. / Saxophone

Par COROZINE VINCE. Designed to introduce the young intermediate-level pianist to playing the blues, Jazzin' the Blues presents fifteen original blues compositions in various keys, styles and grooves together with downloadable recordings of 40 of the 50 examples in the book. The audio tracks are presented both with and without the lead piano part, so the student can play along with a professional rhythm section which includes piano, vibraphone, alto flute, drums, and bass.Historical and performance notes are provided with each blues composition. The author enlisted the skills of jazz pianist Charlie Freeman in editing the book and providing fingering for both the treble and bass piano parts,making these pieces more accessible to novice players. If your knowledge of blues theory or terminology is lacking, this is the book for you! Author Vince Corozine thoroughly explores and demonstrates: blues and pentatonic scale theory, blue notes, grace notes, pedal-points, tremolos, trills, syncopation, anticipation, delayed beats, slash chords, boogie-woogie left-hand patterns, walking bass, stride piano style, straight eighths, swing eighths, passing tones, rolled chords, riffs, 'filler' chords, substitutions, and comping styles. This book also includes essential blues chord theory as well as tips on tasteful chord voicing presented in the context of accompanying a soloist (comping): in addition, the chord progressions represented by the written notation are carefully annotated in every example in the book. The Appendix includes helpful tips on comping, practice, and jazz soloing, plus a list of noteworthy jazz pianists, a key to chord symbols, and a glossary of jazz terms used in the book.If you are not a competent blues pianist when you first pick up this book, you will be by the time you complete it! Includes access to online audio. Designed to introduce the young intermediate-level pianist to playing the blues, Jazzin' the Blues presents fifteen original blues compositions in various keys, styles and grooves together with downloadable recordings of 40 ofthe 50 examples in the book. The audio tracks are presented both with and without the lead piano part, so the student can play along with a professional rhythm section which includes piano, vibraphone, alto flute, drums, andbass. Historical and performance notes are provided with each blues composition. The author enlisted the skills of jazz pianist Charlie Freeman in editing the book and providing fingering for both the treble and bass pianoparts, making these pieces more accessible to novice players. If your knowledge of blues theory or terminology is lacking, this is the book for you! Author Vince Corozine thoroughly explores and demonstrates: blues andpentatonic scale theory, blue notes, grace notes, pedal-points, tremolos, trills, syncopation, anticipation, delayed beats, slash chords, boogie-woogie left-hand patterns, walking bass, stride piano style, straight eighths, swingeighths, passing tones, rolled chords, riffs, 'filler' chords, substitutions, and comping styles. This book also includes essential blues chord theory as well as tips on tasteful chord voicing presented in the context ofaccompanying a soloist (comping) - in addition, the chord progressions represented by the written notation are carefully annotated in every example in the book. The Appendix includes helpful tips on comping, practice, and jazzsoloing, plus a list of noteworthy jazz pianists, a key to chord symbols, and a glossary of jazz terms used in the book. If you are not a competent blues pianist when you first pick up this book, you will be by the time youcomplete it! Includes access to online audio. / Jazz / Etude / Piano

Take centre stage and play along with a live band. The authentic CD backing tracks will help you achieve a more professional performance. With this great 3-part Hybrid Book you get ten pieces in melody line arrangement, and audio CD with professional 'soundalike' performances of every piece featuring a live band, plus backing tracks to play along with. You also get free online downloads for a full band score and additional parts. / Flûte Traversière

Learn 12 great swing standards recorded by Django Reinhardt Stephane Grappelli and the Quintette of the Hot Club of France. Play along with a great Gypsy Swing Rhythm Section and learn chords comping and melodies then letthe band back you up as you practice chords and soloing. You play all the leads while the band backs you up. Beginners can practice basic skills while more advanced players can hone their improvisation chops each at their ownindividual learning pace. Includes standard notation tablature chord diagrams lyrics playing tips and more. Each song is presented on the CD at slow and regular speed. First you'llhear the melody played at a slow speed with just guitar backup then it's repeated at regular speed with the band. Split track mixing on the recording allows the student to hear just the melody (while reading along in the book) orjust the rhythm section or both for maximum flexibility and specific study. Finally the band plays several choruses and you play all the leads. Songs may be repeated at slow or regular speed as many times as you wish in orderto perfect phrases melodies and solos in a band context. Includes special section on how to play rhythm back up chords and get that swing pulse on guitar. Potential for improvement isunlimited. Mandolin version also available. We'll jam all night long!

This book is designed to help saxophonists develop fluency in the jazz language by providing mainstream jazz vocabulary (swing/bop/post-bop) that nails the changes and lays great on the horn. Think of Hip Licks for Saxophone Volume 2 as a musical reference book, like a dictionary of great licks in all twelve keys, available when you need it. You can open the book to any page and just start playing. Hip Licks for Saxophone Volume 2 is an indispensable resource that shows you how a professional player would deal with many of the complex chord progressions found in popular standards and jazz compositions.

Learn 12 MORE great Gypsy Swing/Hot Club standards (see song list below left) in the style of Django Reinhardt Stephane Grappelli and The Quintette of the Hot Club of France. Just like with the original set you\'ll play along with a great Gypsy Swing Rhythm Section and learn chords comping and melodies then let the band back you up as you practice chords and soloing. You play all the leads while the band backs you up. Beginners can practice basic skills while more advanced players can hone their improvisation chops each at their own individual learning pace. You\'ll learn moveable closed position swing/jazz chords and practice playing them with the swing guitarcomp. We\'ve also included information on basic chord substitution along with exercises on transposing melodies and chord progressions to different keys. These are essential skills for any swing/jazz musician. You\'ll also explore some basic chord melody passages! Book/CD set includes standard notation tablature chord diagrams lyrics playing tips and more. Each song is presented on the CD at slow and regular speed. First youâ??ll hear the melody played on guitar at a slow speed with just guitar backup then it\'s repeated at regular speed with the band. The back up band is a classic Hot Club- style rhythm section with two acoustic rhythm guitars string bass. Songs may be repeated at slow or regular speed as many times as you wish in order to perfect phrases melodies and solos in a band context.

A Comprehensive Study of Gypsy Jazz Guitar-This book offers a comprehensive study of the Gypsy jazz or Manouche Guitar style as perceived by French guitarists Derek Sebastian and Romane two of the finest modern day practitioners of the DjangoReinhardt style. Each of the book's thirty-six progressive chapters consists of four parts: A.) Technique developed through exercises chord progressions/diagrams and illustrations of fingerboard positions; B.) A harmonylesson with leads in the Manouche style; C.) Soloing techniques based on the harmonic structure of a given theme; and D.) Self-testing materials with answers provided at the close of the book. The companion audio forL'Espirit Manouche is unique in that it provides 98 play-along MIDI files that exactly parallel the order of the exercises examples and pieces in the book as well as audio tracks of excerpts from eighteenRomane favourites from the Gypsy jazz repertoire. The MIDI tracks which can be accessed via most audio players on PC or Macintosh computers allow the student to play along with both short phrases and extensive rhythmtracks- at any desired tempo. The audio tracks are available to download online. L'Espirit Manouche not only makes Gypsy jazz accessible; it offers an opportunity to master the Manouche style. While manyexercises and tunes appear in both standard notation and tab not to mention chord or fretboard diagrams standard notation is predominant.