Melodic Rhythms for Guitar (Music Instruction)

Melodic Rhythms for Guitar (Music Instruction)

Author: William Leavitt

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 1986-11-01

Total Pages: 83

ISBN-13: 1476867208

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(Guitar Method). A thorough presentation of rhythms commonly found in contemporary music, including 68 harmonized melodies and 42 rhythm exercises. This highly respected and popular book is also an excellent source for duets, sight-reading and chord studies.


Masters of the Plectrum Guitar

Masters of the Plectrum Guitar

Author: William Bay

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2010-10-07

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1609740297

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This landmark book of music for the plectrum style jazz guitar took years to compile, write and edit. It contains some of the greatest solos and duets ever written and performed on the plectrum or flatpicked guitar, including works by Carl Kress, Dick McDonough, George Van Eps, Bucky Pizzarelli, George Barnes, Eddie Lang, George M Smith, Al Valenti, Mel Bay, Frank Victor, Harry Volpe, Carmen Mastren, Oscar Moore, Mundell Lowe, Tony Mottola, Al Hendrickson, and Cal Collins. All solos are in notation and tablature while the duets are shown in standard notation only.


Building Right Hand Technique

Building Right Hand Technique

Author: William Bay

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2010-10-07

Total Pages: 133

ISBN-13: 1609749472

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This book provides a master source for building agility, flexibility and speed while playing with a flatpick, as well as a repertoire source for the plectrum-style guitarist. the studies are designed to build reading ability and clarity of sound in a variety of styles, as well as agility in cross-picking and the playing of rapid linear passages. Includes over 100 original and jazz etudes, fiddle tunes, and a great number of classical guitar pieces transcribed for plectrum guitar. Written in standard notation and tablature.


A Modern Method Guitar

A Modern Method Guitar

Author: William Leavitt

Publisher: Berklee Press Publications

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 9780876391990

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(Berklee Methods). The William Leavitt Modern Method for Guitar, used as the basic text for the Berklee College of Music guitar program, has stood the test of time and earned a vast and loyal following of dedicated guitar students and instructors. By popular demand, Berklee Press has created a compilation of the original volumes 1, 2, and 3, including all audio and video tracks. Now, serious guitar students and instructors, from beginning through advanced, have the convenience of progressing through all three volumes of this classic guitar method in one comprehensive book. Innovative solos, duets, and exercises progressively teach melody, harmony, and rhythm. This edition contains audio and video produced by William Leavitt's students Charles Chapman and Larry Baione (who was his successor as chair of the Berklee Guitar Department), demonstrating the examples and providing play-along tracks for the ensemble exercises.


A Modern Method for Guitar - Volume 1 (Music Instruction)

A Modern Method for Guitar - Volume 1 (Music Instruction)

Author: William Leavitt

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 1995-08-01

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1480344540

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(Guitar Method). This practical, comprehensive method is used as the basic text for the guitar program at the Berklee College of Music. Volume One builds a solid foundation for beginning guitarists and features a comprehensive range of guitar and music fundamentals, including: scales, melodic studies, chord and arpeggio studies, how to read music, special exercises for developing technique in both hands, voice leading using moveable chord forms, and more.


A Modern Method for Guitar Scales

A Modern Method for Guitar Scales

Author: Larry Baione

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2018-04-01

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 1540030342

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(Berklee Guide). Improve your command of the guitar by mastering the essential scales and their fingerings. This reference will help you play scales up, down and across the fingerboard, in all keys. You will learn multiple scale fingering options to suit different musical contexts. Practice exercises will help you build your muscle memory as you play different fingering patterns across the strings, and then expand them to three octaves. Graphical illustrations, exercises, and etudes will help reinforce all the most useful scale types. Traditional notation and tablature are included.


Confronting the Classics

Confronting the Classics

Author: Mary Beard

Publisher: Profile Books

Published: 2013-03-07

Total Pages: 435

ISBN-13: 1847658881

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Mary Beard is one of the world's best-known classicists - a brilliant academic, with a rare gift for communicating with a wide audience both though her TV presenting and her books. In a series of sparkling essays, she explores our rich classical heritage - from Greek drama to Roman jokes, introducing some larger-than-life characters of classical history, such as Alexander the Great, Nero and Boudicca. She invites you into the places where Greeks and Romans lived and died, from the palace at Knossos to Cleopatra's Alexandria - and reveals the often hidden world of slaves. She takes a fresh look at both scholarly controversies and popular interpretations of the ancient world, from The Golden Bough to Asterix. The fruit of over thirty years in the world of classical scholarship, Confronting the Classics captures the world of antiquity and its modern significance with wit, verve and scholarly expertise.


Neoclassical Speed Strategies for Guitar

Neoclassical Speed Strategies for Guitar

Author: Chris Brooks

Publisher:

Published: 2018-06-12

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 9781911267676

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Neo-Classical Speed Strategies for Guitar is about breaking barriers, systemising strengths, and helping you overcome the common hurdles of speed picking by analysing a true icon of shred guitar.


Reading studies for guitar

Reading studies for guitar

Author: William Leavitt

Publisher: Berklee Press Publications

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780634013355

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(Guitar Solo). A comprehensive collection of studies for beginners to improve their reading and technical ability. Covers: positions 1 through 7 in all keys while introducing scales, arpeggios, written-out chords, and a variety of rhythms and time signatures.


Classical Guitar

Classical Guitar

Author: Craig Smith

Publisher:

Published: 2020-06-04

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781735154817

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An introduction to the music, history, and techniques of the classical guitar. 25 lessons and studies from J.S Bach, Fernando Sor, Carulli, Aguado and more.Includes a classical guitar primer, daily practice routine, and Giuliani's 120 right hand studies. 129 pages.