With Online Audio-This user-friendly book with access to online audio shows how to transform standard three-chord blues changes into harmonically sophisticated jazz-blues progressions. The book covers chord substitution twelve-bar blues minor blues eight-bar blues and sixteen-bar blues. Chord frames are supplied for guitarists. Blank treble and bass staves are included for writing songs lick…

Par VIGNOLA FRANK. This Modern Guitar Method Supplement (formerly of the Frank Vignola Play-Along Series) contains solos which have been written and recorded over blues and rhythm changes in many different keys. Learn more about commonly used chord changes by having the opportunity to jam on them extensively. Some of these etudes have been recorded both at a slower tempo for learning and at perfor…

Whatever you thought the 'blues' is -- get ready to learn from one of Canada's flat-out best. Multiple JUNO nominee and Maple Blues Award winner David Gogo will rawk you with a guitar playing style second to none. This former 'whiz kid' wowed Stevie Ray Vaughan when only 16 and now you can hear why. Gogo's teaching style is easily accessable for the aspiring guitarist and his presentation on this …

8 New Blues Tunes for Classical and Fingerstyle Guitar. The blues present an opportunity to be deeply expressive. Every note can be colored with pitch bends, slides, vibrato, and all manner of attacks. The style makes it easy to own the music, to close your eyes and play as if you wrote it. These pieces are designed to be fun and entertaining as they work through the sharp keys, which are most fri…

Par HUWS JONES EDWARD. These nine jazzy pieces have been specially written to help students work through technical difficulties with position changes in a fun and exciting way. Not only are they an excellent way to learn, there perfect for end of term concerts too. / Methods & Tutors / Etude / Alto et Piano

Guitar Play-Along Volume 73-The Guitar Play-Along Series will help you play your favourite songs quickly and easily! Just follow the tab listen to the CD to hear how the guitar should sound and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The melody and lyrics are also included in the book in case you want to sing or to simply help you follow along. The audio CD is playable on any CD play…

The Bass has been called 'the most important instrument in any band.' The Bass player must create interesting lines under the chord changes keep the 'time flow' or 'pulse' steady and keep the form of the song together. Walking Jazz Lines For Bass is designed to help bassists create beginning to advanced walking patterns (smooth-sounding lines) that can be used in jazz blues R&B gospel Latin…

New Orleans Style Made Easy 4-Sit down with piano master David Bennett Cohen for an essential lesson on New Orleans piano styles. Like a great Southern chef David shows you the exact recipe for combining blues gospel country and boogie-woogie to achieve a rich musical gumbo of sounds. David shows dozens of ideas you can use for soloing improvising and exploring the keyboard: Bass lines blue…

Alice Changes by Tarik O'Regan is a short piece for solo Violin composed for Thomas Gould. The work progresses through a series of increasingly intricate figurations which sit on top of the same underlying chord progression found in Charlie Parker’s Blues for Alice (1951). A variation of the twelve-bar blues this harmonic sequence goes by several names such as: “Bird blues”…

Here is a lesson that’s packed with dozens of time-tested musical phrases that will help you become a strong lead guitarist. Even beginners will be able to start playing hot licks over blues changes. As the phrases get more advanced you’ll start to use slides bends hammer-ons pull-offs and other techniques to increase your speed and dexterity. Each riff is played slowly and then at the spe…

Based on the famous Canadian Brass version by master arranger Luther Henderson here is a wonderful adaptation for concert band by Michael Brown. Opening with a bluesy medium swing feel the tuba section is featured on the melody along with a small group of players. Mid-way through the arrangement the style changes to an up-tempo Dixieland style with the melody cleverly traded between various sec…