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When improvising, what your mind hears is more often than not determined by what your body can reproduce on your instrument. Much of your conception as an improviser is determined by your technique. I...

A comprehensive study text for students beginning a serious study of jazz. The first part of the book begins by teaching elements of jazz phrasing, articulation, vibrato and interpretation of rhythms...

Avez-vous déjà entendu un crochet de batterie qui vous donne envie d'arrêter ce que vous êtes en train de faire et de danser ? Vous pouvez maintenant apprendre à jouer des rythmes comme vos batteurs p...

The Complete Funk Drumming Book is one of the most complete presentations of today's popular funk drumming style available. This book takes you from the very roots of rock and rhythm`n'blues drumming...

This collection contains 100 favorite gospel songs and hymns for flute and guitar. Inside you will find rousing camp meeting songs, sentimental expressions of a deep-rooted faith, and gospel oriented...

Blind Blake was the greatest ragtime blues guitarist to record during the 1920s. His guitar playing was unique. It captured the pulsating rhythms of the blues, ragtime, and jazz music of the period. R...

Destined to become a classic, this book is the natural result of not only years of playing jazz guitar but also of the author's long associations with many innovative jazz guitarists. This comprehensi...

Mel Bay Publications, Inc. is proud to present this new series of lessons as part of Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop Audio Series. This book offers a comprehensive collection of fingerpicking guitar...

In this book, six of Rev. Davis' Holy Blues are presented-- gospel songs with a taste of the blues. The online audio recordings teach these arrangements phrase by phrase as well as presenting the orig...

Fiddle Tunes, Classic Rags and Cakewalks covers well-known tunes in each style taught by Leo Wijinkamp Jr.. These tunes are presented in Open G, Standard and Drop D tunings. The three audio CDs give 3...

Jazz virtuoso Johnny Smith presents his complete system of chord analysis, scale and arpeggio study, and practical theory application. This is one of the most useful books to be found in any jazz guit...

The accurate interpretation of swing rhythm is the most important element in jazz music. This collection of 7 jazz etudes and 11 exercises for solo guitar gives the student practice in playing this rh...

This book is designed to teach any guitarist to compose chord melody arrangements for the Guitar, at a pace which is comfortable for both the beginner and the advanced student. Every method used is di...

Charlie Parker was arguably one of the most influential jazz musicians to have ever lived. This text presents numerous jazz lines in Parker 's style, grouped by their application in a given harmonic c...

Charlie Parker was arguably one of the most influential jazz musicians to have ever lived. This text presents numerous jazz lines in Charlie's style, grouped by their application in a given harmonic c...

Take your saxophone playing to the next level! With "Jazz Saxophone Licks, Phrases & Patterns" from the renowned publisher Mel Bay Publications, you will expand your musical vocabulary and master the...

Written during the 1970s, the etudes featured in The Art Of Two-Line Improvisation were composed as a result of Jimmy Wyble 's explorations into the musical worlds of counterpoint, harmony and chord m...

The Peer Gynt Suite may be Edvard Grieg's most famous composition. Its melodies have insinuated themselves into our culture so that they are now universally familiar. The movements are: Morning Song,...

As one can easily imagine, it would be very hard for a Guitar student to start reading the scores of the traditional choro repertoire, most of them with large number of technical difficulties. It woul...

An outstanding collection of 33 classic guitar solos transcribed from piano works by Manuel Saumell, Ignacio Cervantes, and many others. Cuban song and dance rhythms have had a global impact. These ar...

This collection showcases the syncopated piano music of Latin American during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It features Latin rhythms, which are really African rhythms brought to the A...

Another great addition to the Avrahm Galper Clarinet Series, here Avrahm presents 42 fantastic Klezmer tunes to add to your repertoire. All arranged for clarinet and B-Flat instruments in easy to read...

The study of classic ragtime guitar is very challenging. For this set of lessons for the intermediate and advanced guitarist we have picked four ever-popular rags. You have the advantage in this serie...

The acclaimed first volume of this exciting series gave extensive insights into basic techniques of flamenco guitar playing and the two important rhythmic forms (palos) of Solea and Alegrias. This sec...

This book and audio contains 15 beautiful flamenco guitar solos in notation and tablature written especially for teachers, students and soloists. Flamenco guitar selections you will want in your reper...