Guitar Roots -- Swing

Guitar Roots -- Swing

Author: Paul Howard

Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing

Published: 2002-03

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9780739024676

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The ultimate starter book for players looking to learn the classic guitar style that's once again so popular. Learn swing progressions and forms, as well as how to construct a swing guitar solo, and so much more. This is the only book ever needed to get swingin' right away!


Jazz Swing Guitar

Jazz Swing Guitar

Author: Jon Wheatley

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2016-05-01

Total Pages: 123

ISBN-13: 1495070786

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(Berklee Guide). Master the rich and varied world of mainstream jazz guitar. These 47 lessons and etudes present a comprehensive course of study to facilitate rapid progress with harmonic sensibility, fingerboard scholarship, essential repertoire, and stylistic nuance. These gorgeous, performance-quality etudes are rooted in the timeless jazz swing tradition, for solo, duet, and soloing over ensemble. The accompanying recording demonstrates performances of the etudes. Traditional notation and tablature are included.


Western Swing Guitar Style

Western Swing Guitar Style

Author: JOE CARR

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2016-07-07

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 1610654951

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If you have ever heard the sound of rhythm guitar in a good western swing band, you may have wondered how the guitarist achieved that unique chordal sound. While the song might be a simple one-playable with only two or three chords-the western swing guitarist changes chords every two beats, providing a driving and harmonically interesting background for the singers and instrumentalists. This book is designed for intermediate players who have a basic understanding of open chords. It begins with study of the Texas fiddle back-up style and the chords used to enhance this music. the chords and progressions explained in this book can be used in many types of music in addition to western swing and would serve as an excellent transition from open-string folk chords to more of a jazz approach.


Acoustic Masterclass

Acoustic Masterclass

Author: Mike Dowling

Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing

Published: 2004-04

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 9780757915307

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Guitar arrangements transcribed by the artists themselves, in standard notation and tab. Each edition includes a masterclass-style CD in which the artist walks you through the key aspects and techniques for each arrangement. Roots expert Mike Dowling performs a unique blend of blues, ragtime, swing, and roots music. Titles are: Amazing Grace * Jan's Song * Swamp Dog Blues * Minor Thing * Nitpickin' * Bottleneck March * Johnson City Rag * Rosalie * Rocky Road * Backslidin' * Bottomlands * Siboney * String Crazy * Fishin' in the Wind * Wild 'Bout It * Shufflin'.


Swing Guitar

Swing Guitar

Author: Fred Sokolow

Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation

Published: 2003-03

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780634026287

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Learn to play swing rhythm and lead guitar in the style of the masters! With this book/CD pack you get: transcriptions of 15 original hit recordings from the classics of the 1930s and '40s to the revival of the '90s; performance notes to help you understand the solos; instruction in comping patterns and chord embellishment; a history of swing guitar; and more. Songs: Choo Choo Ch' Boogie * Go Daddy-O * Just a Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody * In the Mood * It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) * Jersey Bounce * Jump, Jive An' Wail * Route 66 * Sentimental Journey * Since I Don't Have You * A String of Pearls * Take the "A" Train * Tuxedo Junction * Zoot Suit Riot. The accompanying CD includes full-band demos of all the songs, with guitar parts isolated.


A Biography of Charlie Christian, Jazz Guitar's King of Swing

A Biography of Charlie Christian, Jazz Guitar's King of Swing

Author: Wayne E. Goins

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 504

ISBN-13:

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This is a biography on the career of jazz guitarist Charlie Christian, who was raised in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma during the Depression era in the Southwestern region of the United States. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the details surrounding the events that shaped Christian's musical development, beginning with his early influences of 'Territory bands' and 'western swing' groups. The book documents Christian's performances in the urban area of Oklahoma City on Second Street, better known as 'Deep Deuce', as well as his travels with both Anna Mae Winburn and the Alphonso Trent Orchestra. Christian's discovery by producer John Hammond led to Christian's membership in the Benny Goodman Sextet in August of 1939. The book also chronicles Christian's most significant radio broadcasts, live performances, and recordings for Columbia Records, and also includes facts regarding Christian's pioneering guitar style during the early 1940's, as his performances at Minton's Playhouse in Harlem represented the connection between swing and bebop. The biography finally uncovers details into Christian's private life, and his untimely death during the apex of the Goodman era. ... ground-b Christian's contributions to swing and early bebop.


Guitar Roots -- Bluegrass

Guitar Roots -- Bluegrass

Author: Paul Howard

Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing

Published: 2002-03

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9780739024652

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For anyone who's ever wanted to add bluegrass to their list of playing styles but never knew where to begin, Guitar Roots: Bluegrass provides all the elements for finding an authentic bluegrass sound. Clear, easy-to-understand examples demonstrate slides, hammer-ons, pull-offs, alternate picking, syncopation and more. Get pickin' with this all-inclusive bluegrass primer.


Western Swing Lead Guitar Styles

Western Swing Lead Guitar Styles

Author: Joe Carr

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2011-08-18

Total Pages: 49

ISBN-13: 161065708X

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Take it Away! Unlock the secrets of hot take-off lead guitar as played by the greatest players from the greatest bands. Western Swing master Joe Carr has transcribed the great guitar solos from the Bob Wills band and other greats and breaks them down note by note into useful licks that can be used to improvise original hot solos. Includes solos by western swing legends Eldon Shamblin, Jimmy Wyble, Leon Rhodes, Junior Benard (often called the first rockabilly) and more. the accompanying CD uses classic western swing song progressions and presents the licks at a medium, learnable pace. Written in standard notation and tablature.Learn hot take-off style lead guitar Includes transcribed solos by Shamblin, Wyble, Rhodes, Bernard and more. Includes play-along CD with all licks at playable pace. Features the music of Bob Wills and other Western Swing greats.


Swingin' the Dream

Swingin' the Dream

Author: Lewis A. Erenberg

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1999-09-08

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 0226215180

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During the 1930s, swing bands combined jazz and popular music to create large-scale dreams for the Depression generation, capturing the imagination of America's young people, music critics, and the music business. Swingin' the Dream explores that world, looking at the racial mixing-up and musical swinging-out that shook the nation and has kept people dancing ever since. "Swingin' the Dream is an intelligent, provocative study of the big band era, chiefly during its golden hours in the 1930s; not merely does Lewis A. Erenberg give the music its full due, but he places it in a larger context and makes, for the most part, a plausible case for its importance."—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World "An absorbing read for fans and an insightful view of the impact of an important homegrown art form."—Publishers Weekly "[A] fascinating celebration of the decade or so in which American popular music basked in the sunlight of a seemingly endless high noon."—Tony Russell, Times Literary Supplement


New Orleans funk guitar

New Orleans funk guitar

Author: Shane Theriot

Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 9780769291093

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In this book Shane discusses and demonstrates all the stylistic elements that set the music of New Orleans apart. Topics include funk rhythms, muting and 16th-note grooves, the clave, melodic phrases, authentic second line" grooves, and Cajun and Zydeco styles. All the music is demonstrated on the included recording featuring Shane and a group of premier New Orleans musicians."