Berklee Guide

Step away from the practice pad! Legendary drummer Rod Morgenstein reveals his innovative warm-up method designed to limber up your entire body. Features exercises to develop and improve your speed, p...

Enrich your drumming with world rhythms and sounds. World music presents many learning opportunities and challenges, especially for drums and percussion. Learning grooves from Africa, Latin America, S...

Play jazz with tremendous facility and authentic vocabulary. Learn to develop your own sound, perform a wide variety of essential jazz time feels, and improvise dynamic fills and solos, taught in the...

Learn to play the Djembe. This complete method by Michael Markus will teach you how to produce a good sound, develop a healthy technique and learn the essential concepts, sounds and rhythms of West Af...

This book by Berklee bass prof Anthony Vitti will help you make your bass lines more creative, unique and memorable. Tap into the groove and evolve your bass lines by using fills. This book brings you...

Learn to play jazz harmonies and rhythms on the flute. This book combines Joe Viola's two classic texts of the Technique of the Flute series: Chord Studies and Rhythm Studies. You will learn melody, h...

Expand the creative breadth of your soloing! The step-by-step exercises and explanations in this tried-&-true resource will help you develop your ear and improve your technique. You'll learn the intim...

A complete guide to playing and maintenance, this handbook offers essential information on all dimensions of the saxophone. It provides an overview of technique, such as breathing, fingerings, articul...

Add unique trumpet sounds to your palette of colors. The trumpet is capable of a great range of sounds, from half-valve and growls effects to percussion sounds and mutes. This book shows you how to pe...

Développez la maîtrise et le contrôle de la touche de l'alto, dans toutes les tonalités. Que vous jouiez du classique, du jazz, des airs de violon ou d'autres styles, ces stratégies du XXIe siècle peu...

Develop jazz solos using melodic fragments from traditional fiddle tunes. These etudes show how melodic cells can be used to create extended improvisations. In each example, fragments of a traditional...

Acclaimed jazz multi-instrumentalist Rob Thomas brings a fresh look at violin scales for the modern age. Chapters in this book cover: - Single-String Frames - Four-String Frames - Mode and Arpeggio Ex...

Improvise with more expression and freedom in bluegrass and related styles. These ideas, exercises, and etudes will help you expand your palette of improvisational techniques and sounds. Develop your...

Perform some of the best-known sax solos of all time! Playing these clearly rendered and meticulously detailed transcriptions will give you insight into the styles of sax greats such as Michael Brecke...

Learn classic blues rhythm guitar and soloing techniques, in the style of the greats, such as B. B. King, T-Bone Walker, Albert Collins, Robert Lockwood Jr. , Jimmie Vaughan, and others. This book is...

Learn the contemporary techniques and practices of the modern cello. The collection is a vital exploration of 21st-century cello techniques that every contemporary cellist should know when playing mus...

Learn those beautiful hot licks and fingerpicking patterns of country music. You'll learn all about the various types of country music, from classic to current-from Western Swing to bluegrass and ever...

Add unique Flute sounds to your palette of colors. The Flute is capable of a great range of sounds: buzzing and whistling, clicking and growling, and much more! This book shows you how to do dozens of...

Learn deep funk/R&B guitar! These hands-on exercises, licks, and technical discussions will help you play in the style of Kool and the Gang, Prince, James Brown, Sly and the Family Stone, Jimi Hendrix...

Learn to improvise like an instrumentalist! Artful vocal jazz improvisation requires knowing the changes, and all musicians need to understand what is happening on the musical landscape. This book wil...

Une collection essentielle de classiques vocaux du jazz et du blues ! Ce recueil de chansons vocales unique a été soigneusement conçu par des membres de la faculté de chant du Berklee College of Music...

Learn to improvise fluently over common jazz progressions. Learn to use simple source material, such as four-note cells, and characteristic bebop motifs to help you make fast progress towards making t...

Make advanced guitar harmonies more intuitive and effective. This inventive approach to imagining and organizing notes will expand your concept of guitar harmony. You will be able to organize and use...

Develop a fingerboard facility that fuses the great navigational conception of the classical guitar tradition with the improvisational, on-the-fly, solo content/language of the modern jazz guitarist,...