Make your practice time efficient and organized! Every guitarist has their own personal practice needs and goals, so it's important to have flexibility and options when you're trying to get better as a player. This customizable planner lets guitarists and guitar teachers decide what topics they should focus on. Use it to stay organized and make practice purposeful and fun. Helpful tips on the art …

Media Type : Book Level : Intermediate-Advanced Musical Genre : All Styles Series : Complete Number of pages : 248 This is a very comprehensive text that combines theory, harmony and voicing material with emphasis placed on voice leading. Although this book's primary focus is on four-note chord voicings on the middle strings of the guitar, much of the knowledge conveyed here can be appreciated a…

This guide to playing modern and traditional electric country lead guitar includes access to audio demo tracks online for download or streaming. Topics covered include: pentatonic and other scales - string bending - hybrid picking - chicken pickin - flatpicking - pickin on the low strings - steel guitar - double stops - triad basics - banjo rolls - open-string cascades - cow jazz - intros and endi…

Par NEDECKY JASON. Singers, teachers, coaches, and conductors will appreciate French Lyric Diction: A Singer's Guide for its thorough account of the language as it is sung in opera and mélodie. Often-overlooked topics are explored, including phrasal and emphatic stress, vocalic length, singing the French r, and traditions in the setting of French poetry. Considerable attention is paid to the subje…

This supplement to Beginning Fingerstyle Guitar is a perfect companion to any starter method and can also stand alone as a fingerstyle instruction manual for anyone wanting to arrange for solo guitar. Topics include monotonic bass, walking bass, block chords, changing keys, changing time signatures, chord substitutions, secondary dominants, a variety of picking patterns, and techniques like harmon…

Introducing the sounds of jazz into your playing can expand your musical horizons and enrich you as a performer. Jazz Sounds for Guitar presents a clear and easy working knowledge of the types of chords associated with jazz, providing practical, hands-on experience in applying these chords harmonically, melodically, and rhythmically. All the music is shown with chord frames, standard notation, and…

Description Over 600 examples demonstrated on an MP3 CD are included in this book/CD pack. The book covers the same topics as the Groove Alchemy DVD (HL00320974) in an even more comprehensive fashion, containing transcriptions of all of the historical grooves, plus all of Stanton's creative expansions and applications of them. The package also contains four play-along tracks taken directly f…

In A Nuts and Bolts Approach To Arranging For Fingerstyle Guitar Rolly Brown teaches an organised approach to exploring and combining rhythm, melody and harmony to create fingerstyle Guitar arrangements.This instructional DVD includes numerous tips, tools and techniques, a look at approaching different musical styles and just enough theoretical knowledge to get you started at arranging your own ve…

This book is great for guitarists who have learned the basics of jazz harmony and improvisation. Topics include the ii-V-I progression, creating solo lines, altered chord formulas, and comping in different jazz feels such as Latin, swing, ballad, and even funk. Continuing in the format of Beginning Jazz Guitar, every new concept is accompanied by etudes and songs for practice, and every chapter …

The Hal Leonard Melodica Method is designed for anyone interested in learning the basics of playing the melodica. This easy-to-use beginner's guide serves as an introduction to everything needed to begin playing with proper technique. It's filled with helpful diagrams and photographs and uses folk tunes that students can learn as they work their way through the book. Topics covered include: mouthp…