How to Play Guitar Books

Guitarists with a knowledge of basic guitar chords and scales can dig right in and learn to play jazz right away. This well-paced, comprehensive method covers everything from basic to advanced techniques.

This is an excellent and thorough bass method designed to provide a musical foundation and expertise in technique and theory in the jazz and rock idioms. Ear training, transposition, modulation,

Playing jazz on the guitar is easy and fun with this step-by-step approach! The careful pacing of the material provides exactly what jazz guitar instructional materials need, an approach that makes students

This book/CD pack by award-winning jazz guitarist and distinguished teacher Jack Grassel will help rhythm guitarists better understand: chord symbols and voicings; comping styles and patterns; equipment,

One of the easiest and most practical approaches to jazz guitar on the market today, this method thoroughly covers the basics for jazz guitar solo performance, including: theory, scales, chords, phrasing,

These 26 advanced single-string jazz studies composed for guitar are ideal for teaching swing style and improving sight-reading skills. The tonal range for this collection is a D on the fourth string to an

This reproducible resource is ideal for teaching jazz rhythms and sight-reading. To perform these exercises, students will need to be able to read all of the notes in first position on all six strings. The

Jaco Pastorius is arguably the greatest bassist of the 20th century. Modern Electric Bass breaks down the musical elements and characteristics that made him such a unique and once-in-a-generation

Learning the Blues Has Never Been So Easy! Have you always wanted to play the blues? Real, authentic blues? Realize your dream of becoming a great blues guitarist with Alfred's Learn to Play Blues

Expand your bass knowledge with the Bass Lesson Goldmine series! Featuring 100 individual modules covering a giant array of topics, each lesson in this Blues volume includes detailed instruction with

15 note-for-note transcriptions with tab for the blues guitar player who co-authored The Hal Leonard Guitar Method. Includes: Absinthe; Chief's Blues; Foolish Mortals; Hey Godzilla; JSK; Rex

Jazz Guitar Lines of the Greats includes 675 transcribed licks and phrases from five of the greatest jazz guitarists of all time: Tal Farlow, Pat Martino, Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass and Jimmy Raney!

The Total Jazz Bassist is a complete jazz method, giving equal treatment to both electric and double bass. Covering styles like bebop, Latin, funk, and fusion, this book provides examples and

Learn jazz guitar harmony in a logical, step-by-step way that is always focused on gig-ready applications. The harmony-melody relationship is explored in detail via hands-on examples that start with simple

A funk institution and Tower of Power founding member, Rocco Prestia is one of the most important innovators of the electric bass. This "Play It Like It Is" bass book and CD pack lets bassists learn Rocco's

Bunny Brunel has played with Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams, Wayne Shorter and many other jazz and fusion greats. In this Book/DVD combination, he has compiled over 250 pages of "nuts and bolts"