Mickey Baker's Jazz Guitar

Mickey Baker's Jazz Guitar

Author: Mickey Baker

Publisher: Music Sales

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 9780860010166

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(Music Sales America). This completely revised self-instruction book was written by one of the most outstanding jazz guitarists today. It covers: how to play chords the modern way, vamps and fill-ins, bop-blues, bounce blues, runs, introductions, technique, thoery, and much more.


Guitar Crosspicking Technique

Guitar Crosspicking Technique

Author: Mickey Chochran

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2016-03-23

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1609743563

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Crosspicking technique on guitar is similar to bluegrass banjo, filling in all of the spaces between melody notes with a steady stream of harmony notes. With applied crosspicking technique, the guitar becomes a forceful solo instrument capable of filling a room with colorfully supported melodies. Not only does the guitar support itself, but crosspicking technique also works effectively for supporting other lead instruments and vocals in many styles of music including classical, rock, country, bluegrass, jazz, and new age. The methodology section of this eBook offers the intermediate to advanced guitarist many new ideas which can be added to their arsenal. Thebook also includes a full songbook section with an evenwider repertoire to pursue. All of the lessons and songs are written in tablature only, so you don't have to read music, just count!


Looks Like Rain

Looks Like Rain

Author: Brian T. Atkinson

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Published: 2021-05-12

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1623499275

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Mickey Newbury (1940–2002) grew up in Houston and moved to Nashville in the early 1960s, following his muse. He wrote top hits for many well-known artists, including Don Gibson, Andy Williams, Kenny Rogers, Tom Jones, and others. He is probably best known, however, for being name-checked in the song “Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)” by Waylon Jennings. Newbury has been cited by Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Townes Van Zandt, and many other eminent singer-songwriters as a primary influence. In his own independent fashion, Newbury helped to loosen the grip maintained for decades by the Nashville studio system, thus paving the way for later innovators like Willie Nelson, David Allan Coe, and others. He is still the only songwriter to produce hits on four different charts in the same year in 1968: “Just Dropped In (to See What Condition My Condition was In)” on the pop/rock charts, “Sweet Memories” on easy listening, “Time Is a Thief” on the R & B charts, and “Here Comes the Rain, Baby” in country. Following the successful pattern established in his previous works on Townes Van Zandt and Ray Wylie Hubbard, veteran music journalist Brian T. Atkinson has interviewed artists such as Kris Kristofferson, Bobby Bare, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Steve Earle, Rodney Crowell, and many others to learn how Newbury’s influence continues to shape the musical and artistic approach of both seasoned and newer performers. Forewords by Larry Gatlin and Don McLean set the stage for a fascinating look back at one of the most revered songwriters and musicians of recent decades.


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.


Another Mickey

Another Mickey

Author: Mickey White

Publisher: Bookbaby

Published: 2021-06-22

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9781098366575

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The memoir by Mickey White is the account of the author's experience as a professional guitar player/ singer-songwriter during the 1970s and 1980s. Although never a star or celebrity, he had professional and personal interactions with a number of notable Texas-based songwriters, most significantly, the legendary songwriter Townes Van Zandt. The up-close and personal account of Van Zandt provides a unique and compelling perspective from a person who accompanied Townes on guitar at hundreds of live performances, and contributed to three of his recordings. The author was a collaborator who saw Van Zandt at his pinnacle, was with him as he slid into periods of obscurity and despair, and accompanied him on his quest to re-establish his reputation and obtain notoriety. The book paints a portrait of an artist that was, as most accounts of Van Zandt have thoroughly addressed, tormented and anguished, but also a man with career goals and ambitions, and a friend who was a mentor, a confidant, and an inspiration. Mickey White, throughout his career, was able to capitalize on his guitar-playing expertise to accompany and associate with a number of significant artists. A veteran of the garage-band circuit in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the late 1960s, he attended the University of Texas in Austin. Beginning with Austin, the manuscript delves into the inner workings of music scenes throughout the United States and Canada, including Austin, Houston, Nashville, Toronto, and Chicago. The author relates his experiences encountering and interacting with such notables as Lightnin' Hopkins, Guy Clark, Rodney Crowell, Steve Earle, Richard Dobson, Billy Joe Shaver, Kinky Freidman, Ian Tyson, Steve Goodman, Gamble Rogers, Butch Hancock, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and others. The proposed title of the book (and one of the chapters) comes from a comment made by Bob Dylan to Rolling Stone magazine, after seeing "Mickey Clark and another Mickey" at the Earl of Oldtown in Chicago. The Hemmer Ridge Mountain Boys, the collaboration with bass player Wrecks Bell, was an infamous band in Houston in the late 70s, and accompanied Lucinda Williams on her second studio album, which White co-produced. In 1983, he married Austin singer-songwriter Pat Mears, and had one son, John, born in 1983. The writer, like many of his contemporaries, struggled with substance abuse. The book delves candidly into that aspect of his life in the music business, juxtaposed with Townes' affliction, as well as his successful recovery in the 1980s. He traces the development of his addiction, as well as a spiritual odyssey, based largely in the anchor of an extended family, that enabled a transition to sobriety. Throughout the work, the author describes and explains the musical foundations and influences on different types of guitar-playing, focusing on the styles and techniques of acoustic guitar playing. The book also provides criticism and analysis of Van Zandt's recordings, and interpretations of many of his songs. White's personal knowledge of many of the people and places that were written about provides a unique perspective on Van Zandt's work. The narrative is a slice of Americana, the venture of an Air Force brat raised in a military family anchored in Texas culture, observations of people and places critical to folk and country music, and a revelation of the inner workings of a Texas music scene, and Texas songwriter, that had a prolific influence on American music in the late twentieth century.


Complete Jazz Guitar Method: Beginning Jazz Guitar

Complete Jazz Guitar Method: Beginning Jazz Guitar

Author: Jody Fisher

Publisher: Alfred Music

Published:

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9781457408281

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Anyone with a knowledge of basic chords and guitar scale fingerings can dig right in and start learning to play jazz right away. Spanning from the major scale and basic triad theory all the way up to extended chords and the modes, this book features a full-length etude or song to go with every new concept introduced. Beginning Jazz Guitar breaks the age-old tradition of dry, intimidating and confusing jazz books, and provides an actual step-by-step and enjoyable method for learning to play in this style. Clearly organized into easily mastered segments, each chapter is divided into separate lessons on harmony or improvisation. All music is shown in standard notation and TAB.


Complete Jazz Guitar Method

Complete Jazz Guitar Method

Author: Jody Fisher

Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing

Published: 2002-07

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780739024065

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A comprehenvive instruction DVD dedicated to teaching jazz guitar.


First 50 Jazz Standards You Should Play on Guitar

First 50 Jazz Standards You Should Play on Guitar

Author: Hal Leonard Corp.

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2017-07-01

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 1540002004

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(Guitar Collection). If you're new to jazz guitar, you are probably eager to learn some songs. This book provides chord-melody style arrangements in standard notation and tab for the most popular songs jazz guitarists like to play. This accessible collection of must-know jazz hits include: All the Things You Are * Body and Soul * Don't Get Around Much Anymore * Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words) * The Girl from Ipanema (Garota De Ipanema) * I Got Rhythm * Laura * Misty * Night and Day * Satin Doll * Summertime * When I Fall in Love * and more.