Tom Anderson: Play-Along with Jazz: Mixed Choir a Cappella: Classroom Resource

Groovin' Styles for Classroom Instruments-Your students will ?riff? from the rafters with this collection written specifically for classroom instruments. Styles that groove like dixie swing bebop and hard bop are introduced in a sequence that reflects the overall history of jazz as well aslevels of difficulty. Scat singing is optional but can add a boppin alternative to playing instruments so all students can participate. Basic drumming feels are included for even more play-along opportunities. Stand back and let the music-makingbegin. Swing stomp and riff until everyone is in the groove! Full scores and helpful teacher tips with optional unpitched percussion ostinatos are provided along with digital access to play-along audio recordings and separate PDFs of the Orffinstrument and recorder parts. Songs include: Saints Stomp Riff Raff Swings the Thing Boppin Robin A la Mode Hard Bop Candy. Suggested for grades 4-8.

Start playing jazz Guitar. This book will help you understand and master the essential concepts and techniques of jazz, whatever style you may already know. You'll learn jazz theory and harmony through learning and practicing scales, diatonic seventh chords, and harmonic tensions. You will also learn to use chord and tension substitutions in order to give a jazz feel to any existing song. Accompanying recordings demonstrate ideas and let you practice playing along with the author.'Jane Miller's Introduction to Jazz Guitar is a wonderful volume for beginning and intermediate level jazz guitarists. It's like a Swiss Army knife of melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, and dynamic possibilities with an eye toward giving aspiring jazz guitarists just about everything they need to know in order to grow and improve. A well thought-out approach, intelligently written, with clear examples and explanations. Highly recommended!? - Mick Goodrick, Professor, Berklee College of Music'This book is filled with great information, accompanied by energetic explanations and musical examples. As a specialist in jazz guitar, Jane Miller has covered most everything you will need to make great music, and have confidence and knowledge to explore. This is a terrific work of art.? - Jamie Glaser, Anderson Ponty Band / Guitare

Techniques Rhythm & Soloing for Nashville-Style Guitar 2-DVD Set-Some call it country Guitar with a dash of rock blues and jazz. Others call it modern Nashville-style guitar. We call it 'Big Twang' and no one's better qualified to help you get a grip on the style than bonafide master twanger Joe Dalton. Players like Albert Lee Arlen Roth Danny Gatton Johnny Hiland Ray Flacke Leon McAuliffe Brent Mason Chet Atkins Scotty Anderson Red Volkaert James Burton and Jimmy Bryant all have their own classic Big Twang signature sound and technique. But today contemporary players across all styles have incorporated twang influences in their signature sounds.In this DVD you will work through a wide variety of rhythm and soloingparts across five distinct Big Twang grooves that Dalton has prepared to illustrate the diversity of the style. Key learnings include mastering the many different attacks required with the picking hand along with the essential 'touches' required from the fretting hand. As you work with the material Dalton will cover hybrid picking chicken-picking pull-offs hammer-ons double-stops pedal steel emulation ending slides pluck 'n cluck staccato and legato effects tips for crafting a good solo syncopation vibrato and tons of other tricks of the twang trade.