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In the pursuit of improvisation (jazz or other styles), scales are the "palettes" utilized for creating melodies. Often, scales are only practiced ascending or descending step-wise. "Jazz Scale Workout" by Ken Karsh contains eight measure through-composed continuous eighth note exercises (or "workouts") utilizing "jazz style" melodies based around the Major, Dorian (minor seventh), Mixolydian (Dominant), and Super-Locrian (Altered Dominant) scales—the most common scales in the jazz idiom. Four basic guitar fingerings for each scale are provided for the foundation of these exercises. Since these scales are the basis for improvising over the frequently utilized ii-V-I progression, the final ...
Getting Into Rock Guitar is a simplistic approach to learning the language of rock guitar. Written from a player's perspective, this book demonstrates how to apply basic concepts and put them into your playing today. the material covers essential scales, rhythms, and techniques that make up the rock idiom. with over one hundred examples and play-along tracks, Getting into Rock will help guide you to becoming not just a rock guitarist, but a complete rock musician. Written in notation and tablature.
Written by technical wizard Stephen Delach, the Rock Guitar Workout is a collection of technique building etudes that will catapult your playing to new heights. All of the techniques used in modern rock guitar are covered starting from the most basic picking exercises to blistering arpeggio studies. When used as a daily practice routine, the Rock Guitar Workout will undoubtedly unleash the technical virtuoso lurking within you. Topics include alternate, legato and hybrid picking, string skipping, two-hand tapping, pentatonic, blues, harmonic and natural minor scales, melodic patterns, arpeggios and much, much more. A word of caution: not for the faint of heart. In standard notation and tablature.
Written by rock guitar virtuoso Stephen Delach, here is a straightforward approach to adding diminished and whole-tone colors to your improvisations. Geared toward the rock guitarist who has a firm understanding of pentatonic and blues applications, this book provides an excellent introduction into the world of applying altered tones that will undoubtedly take your playing to a new harmonic level. Many etudes, patterns and licks are demonstrated showing how you can get these tones under your fingers and into your playing today. Free audio downloads are available for use with this title.
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This comprehensive reference manual unravels all the intricacies of Finale 2014, for Windows and Mac platforms. The Finale Primer 2014 Edition helps you set up, edit, reformat, and reorganize your notation into a musical masterpiece. This fully illustrated step-by-step guide offers exercises, projects, creative ideas, and power-user tips that will improve your speed and help you become a Finale expert. This book is indispensable whether you're arranging an existing piece of music or creating an original work. This easy-to-use book includes: * Cross-platform instructions for both Macintosh and Windows * Tips to get the most out of Finale's powerful features such as HyperScribe, the Graphics Tool, and MusicScore Lite * Special sections on creative applications of Finale
From the 1920s through the 1960s, Pittsburgh’s Hill District was the heart of the city’s Black cultural life and home to a vibrant jazz scene. In Jazz in the Hill: Nightlife and Narratives of a Pittsburgh Neighborhood, Colter Harper looks at how jazz shaped the neighborhood and created a way of life. Beyond backdrops for remarkable careers, jazz clubs sparked the development of a self-determined African American community. In delving into the history of entrepreneurialism, placemaking, labor organizing, and critical listening in the Hill District, Harper forges connections to larger political contexts, processes of urban development, and civil rights struggles. Harper adopts a broad appr...
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In August and September of 1988, Jerry Fielder, the Yousuf Karsh's long-time studio assistant and cureetly director of the Karsh Estate, sat down with the master photographer and taped over nine hours of recollections of many portrait sessions Karsh had experienced in his great career
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