Learn your scales with the help of 53 well known tunes.
Each page in the first part of this book starts with a scale and its arpeggio. The rest of the page is full of tunes that use that scale and arpeggio.
Now you can add authentic jazz feel and flavor to your playing! Here are 101 definitive licks, plus online audio, from every major jazz guitar style, neatly organized into easy-to-use categories. They're all here: swing and pre-bop, bebop, post-bop modern jazz, hard bop and cool jazz, modal jazz, soul jazz and postmodern jazz. Includes an introduction by Wolf Marshall, tips for using the book and online audio, and a listing of suggested recordings.
C. Paul Herfurth's classic series of tutor books have now been completely revised and updated with a host of innovations to suit a new generation of musicians.A New Tune A Day features the same logical, gentle pace and keen attention to detail that made earlier editions so hugely popular and successful. Clear explanatory diagrams and photographs help guide you through the lessons and achieve the very best in tone, technique and posture. The selection of music is fresh and exciting, including duets and rounds to inspire the student and ensure that those vital practice hours are never boring!
Book 2 contains more improvised solos from more great artists such as Chet Baker, Donald Byrd, Freddie Hubbard, Dizzie Gillespie, Booker Little, Fats Navarro, and others.
80 Graded Studies for Saxophone, selected and edited by John Davies and Paul Harris for both Alto and Tenor Saxophones, brings together in two books a broad selection of 18th and 19th century repertory, with studies by Arban, Baermenn, Blatt, Brod and others. Also included are a number of specially composed studies by Paul Harris. These introduce aspects of 20th-century style and considerably extend the scope of the selection. The studies are arranged in order of increasing difficulty, according to a carefully planned technical progression.
James Murray Brown's Handbook of Musical Knowledge was first published in 1967, and each of its eight chapters concentrated on each of the eight grades. This revised edition incorporates some of the more recent changes and is now offered as a more general text for any theory of music examinations.