Ultimate Beginner Series: Blues Vocals

Roscoe Beck is one of today's leading performers and authorities on the blues bass style. A leading studio player Roscoe is also a member of Robben Ford's Blue Line. In this book Roscoe guides you through everything you need to know to begin mastering blue bass: The 12-Bar Blues Progression Technique and Hand Position Classic Bass Lines Shuffle Slow Blues and Minor Blues Equipment and Sound Alternative styles Complete Play-Along Tracks CD included Matching Videos Available

Four programs on DVD designed to get you singing the Blues like a true pro. On Vocal Basics: Steps One and Two you'll learnCorrect breathing and mouth positionVowel exercisesHow to find your rangeHow to use your voice in different stylesExercises for extending your vocal rangeThe 'chest voice' and the 'head voice'How to interpret melody and make the lyrics com aliveHow to take care of your voiceOnce you've learned the basics of successful and confident singing you are ready to move on to Blue Vocals: Step One and TwoThe Blues scaleThe major pentatonicCall-and-response styleHow toexpand your Blues phrasingHow to write a great Blues songThe chance to sing along with BB King Albert Collins and Robben Ford

In Step One Henry Brewer demonstrates the 12-bar progression shuffle pattern triplet feel inversions and more. A live band illustrates each point that is demonstrated on the DVD. Step Two focuses on turnarounds blues ending the blue scale blues licks basic soloing technique and more. Includes a performance featuring T. Lavitz and Chick Corea.

For Flute-100 Ultimate Blues Riffs for Flute the Beginner Series by musician educator and world renowned author Andrew D. Gordon is an exhaustive guide to introduce beginner students to the various phrases or ???riffs??? that make up Flute playing both from a rhythmic and soloing standpoint.Due to the continued success of his more advanced series 100 Ultimate Blues Riffs Andrew decided to author a similar type of book for beginner students.This book is ideal for the beginner to intermediate music student with most of the examples notated in the easier keys. Besides learning how to play Blues riffs the book is a useful tool for sight readingexercises with many different rhythms.The 12 bar Blues progression and the Blues scale in Andrew???s opinion the two most important aspects of playing the Blues is explained in detail as well as ???straight??? and ???swing??? rhythms.There are five sections to the riffs in the book section 1 contains basic Blues riffs section 2 contains Rhythm and Blues influenced riffs section 3 contains Blues/Boogie Woogie riffs section 4 contains Rock influenced Blues riffs and section 5 contains Gospel influenced Blues riffs. Included with this book is an audio CD that contains all the riffs recorded twice: first sax melody piano guitar bass and drums and second just the rhythm track of piano guitar bass and drums so you can play-a-long.Review of the Sax version of the book by Skip Spratt of The Sax Shed https://saxshed.comAndrew D. Gordon of ADG Productions has recently updated and added to his popular series of books with 100 Ultimate Blues Riffs The Beginner Series. The original publication by the same title is geared toward intermediate to advanced students. Both books feature a companion CD and optional midi files that will help in the practice of these 100 blues riffs.I had the opportunity to preview the tenor saxophone books from the series; however the same books are published for other instruments as well. Saxophonist Frank Villafranca of the Super Groovers demonstrates each riff with the rhythm section first with and opportunity for play-along following each demo track. Andrew Gordon writes ???For people who want to improve their

Beginner Level. 100 Ultimate Blues Riffs for Trumpet, the Beginner Series by musician, educator and world renowned author Andrew D. Gordon is an exhaustive guide to introduce beginner students to the various phrases or ?riffs? that make up Blues trumpet playing, both from a rhythmic and soloing standpoint. Due to the continued success of his more advanced book series, 100 Ultimate Blues Riffs Andrew decided to author a similar type of book for beginner students. This book is ideal for the beginner to intermediate music student with most of the examples notated in the easier keys. Besides learning how to play Blues riffs the book is a useful tool for sight reading exercises with many different rhythms. The 12 bar Blues progression and the Blues scale, in Andrew?s opinion, the two most important aspects of playing the Blues is explained in detail as well as ?straight? and ?swing? rhythms. There are five sections to the riffs in the book, section 1 contains basic Blues riffs, section 2 contains Rhythm

100 Ultimate Blues Riffs for Eb Alto Saxophone, the Beginner Series by musician, educator and world renowned author Andrew D. Gordon is an exhaustive guide to introduce beginner students to the various phrases or ?riffs? that make up Blues sax playing, both from a rhythmic and soloing standpoint. Due to the continued success of his more advanced book 100 Ultimate Blues Riffs for Eb Alto Andrew decided to author a similar type of book for beginner students. This book is ideal for the beginner to intermediate music student with most of the examples notated in the easier keys. Besides learning how to play Blues riffs the book is a useful tool for sight reading exercises with many different rhythms. The 12 bar Blues progression and the Blues scale, in Andrew?s opinion, the two most important aspects of playing the Blues is explained in detail as well as ?straight? and ?swing? rhythms. There are five sections to the riffs in the book, section 1 contains basic Blues riffs, section 2 contains Rhythm

100 Ultimate Blues Riffs for Piano/Keyboards the Beginner Series by musician educator and world renowned author Andrew D. Gordon is an exhaustive guide to introduce beginner students to the various phrases or riffs that make up Blues piano playing both from a rhythmic and soloing standpoint. Due to the continued success of his more advanced book 100 Ultimate Blues Riffs for Piano/Keyboards Andrew decided to author a similar type of book for beginner students. This book is ideal for the beginner to intermediate music student with most of the examples notated in the easier keys. Besides learning how to play Blues riffs the book is a useful toolfor sight reading exercises with many different left and right hand rhythms. The 12 bar Blues progression and the Blues scale in Andrew s opinion the two most important aspects of playing the Blues is explained in detail as well as straight and swing rhythms. There are five sections to the riffs in the book section 1 contains basic Blues riffs section 2 contains Rhythm

The Ultimate Beginner Series is designed to help you take the first step toward experiencing the fun of playing music. Blues Guitar illustrates everything you need to get you started in the basics of the blues andfeatures on-screen graphics and tablature plus a great band to demonstrate each point. Concepts demonstrated include popular intros and endings slow blues (the heart of the blues sound) the 'sweet' side of blues soloing (themajor pentatonic scale) blues phrasing using 'call and response ' and much more. DVD special features include a tuning segment an additional artist performance video and additional video tips.

The ultimate beginner Series is designed to help you take the first step toward experiencing the fun of playing music. With step-by-step instruction some of today's top musicians show you the fundamentals. Starting at thevery beginning you'll progress easily to the point where you can sit in with friends and experience the joy of playing an instrument. Step One: About the drum itself About the function of the drummer in aband How to hold the sticks How to play a basic rock beat And much more! Step Two: Rock beat variations Basic note values Song structure How to play a simple drum fill How to play a basicblues beat Warm-up exercises And much more!DVD FEATURES: Superior audio and video quality Interactive menus Random-access screen selection Internet conncectivity

100 Ultimes Riffs Blues for Clarinet, la série débutant par le musicien, pédagogue et auteur de renommée mondiale Andrew Gordon D. est un guide exhaustif pour introduire les étudiants débutants aux différentes phrases ou des 'riffs' qui composent le jeu de clarinette Blues, tant sur le rythme et solo point de vue.En raison de la poursuite du succès de son livre plus avancé 100 Ultimes Riffs Blues pour Andrew a décidé à l'auteur d'un livre du même type pour les étudiants débutants. Ce livre est idéal pour le débutant à intermédiaire étudiant en musique avec la plupart des exemples notées en touches plus faciles. En plus d'apprendre à jouer des riffs blues le livre est un outil utile pour la lecture à vue avec de nombreux exercices de rythmes différents.La progression 12 bar blues et le blues échelle, de l'avis d'André, les deux aspects les plus importants de jouer le Blues est expliqué en détail ainsi que 'droite' et de 'swing' rythmes. Il ya cinq sections aux riffs dans le livre, l'article 1 contient des riffs de blues de base, section 2 contient Rhythm and Blues riffs influencés, section 3 contient Blues / Boogie Woogie riffs, article 4 contient des riffs blues rock influencé et à l'article 5 contient Evangile Blues influencé riffs. Inclus avec ce livre est un CD audio qui contient tous les riffs, enregistrée deux fois: d'abord, la mélodie de clarinette, piano, guitare, basse et batterie et la seconde juste la piste rythmique de piano, guitare basse et de la batterie afin que vous puissiez jouer-a-long . / Clarinette

The Ultimate Beginner Xpress Series takes the fundamentals of the Number One instructional music video (Ultimate Beginner Series) and combines it with the most revolutionary way of learning great songs (SongXpress) in order to create a path of learning designed to get you up and playing in no time. There are certain concepts and fundamentals that are common to all contemporary songs in their genre. Whether it's blues hard rock latin or rock 'n' roll this DVD will teach you the elements of a basic song in each style so you can apply them to your playing and learn hundreds of songs just like them.