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A highly effective and comprehensive book for developing complete technical and musical skills on the saxophone. This Volume One Berklee Workshop features innovative exercises, solos and performance t...

This follow-up edition presents a continuation and expansion of the techniques presented in Scale Studies, with a special emphasis on chordal concepts. It includes innovative exercises and solos that...

Once you've completed the studies and exercises in Volumes 1 and 2, this volume offers more advanced study of saxophone technique. An awareness of rhythmic notation and rhythmic interpretation are ess...

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 mul...

Learn ten jazz guitar standards, arranged for solo guitar. These performance-ready arrangements demonstrate different ways to interpret jazz standards and render them for solo guitar performance. Each...

Learn how to play in the style of guitar greats such as Jeff Beck, Mike Stern, Kenny Burrell, Joe Pass, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and other players. This workshop will help you develop your own approaches a...

A modern method ideal for all beginning guitarists, studying individually or in a class. Technique and reading skills are developed through two-, three- and four-part ensemble arrangements of traditio...

This chord dictionary from the assistant chair of Berklee's guitar department includes 100+ chord forms, from basic 7th chords to guide tone chords and triads over bass notes. It is organized to revea...

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, a...

Improvise on the piano in Latin music settings. This book breaks down the harmonic, rhythmic and melodic techniques used by the greatest artists of Cuban piano muysic, such as Ruben Gonzales (Buena Vi...

Now available in a book/Online Audio pack! The William Leavitt guitar method, used as the basic text for the Berklee College of Music guitar program, has stood the test of time and earned a vast and l...

A continuation of Phase I, this volume is ideal for beginning to intermediate guitar students or classes ready to progress beyond the basics. It includes solo, two-part, and three-part ensemble arrang...

Simple substitution, diatonic approach, adding dominant and subdominant chords, harmonic displacement, modal interchange, etc. , many examples and exercises

Write for a horn section! In this book, you will learn how to add saxophones and brass to a rhythm section ensemble. You will learn the capabilities and characteristics of the most common instruments,...

Arrangiermethode für kleine und mittelgroße Ensembles, mit Basic Voicings, Chord Scales, Voicings in Fourths, Seconds, Upper Structures, sowie 6-stimmigen Voicings, 134 S. , Berklee Press. The defini...

Arrangiertechnik aus dem Hause Berklee College Of Music - Schwerpunkt des Buchs bildet Bigband-Arrangieren; darüber hinaus werden aber auch Arrangiertechniken für Bläser in den Stilen Hip-Hop bis Ska...

Even if you're a complete beginner, this easy-to-understand instructional guide will get you improvising in no time! Learn to improvise in jazz, Latin, fusion, blues and rock styles in all keys with s...

This Berklee Workshop is designed for serious guitarists who want to sharpen their high register reading skills and take their playing expertise to the next level. It introduces studies in all keys, u...

Become a more musical guitar player! This book will help you learn and use chords, scales, and other building blocks of music from a guitarist's perspective. It applies concepts of music theory direct...

Das Spielen in einer Band anhand 8 Songs in den Stilen Rock, Blues, Funk, Hard Rock etc. , mit tägl. zur Stilrichtung passenden Übungen zu Rhythmik, Phrasierung, Melodik u. m. , mit je 6 Versionen pro...

Add unique trumpet sounds to your palette of colors. The trumpet is capable of a great range of sounds, from half-valve and growls effects to percussion sounds and mutes. This book shows you how to pe...

Learn the art of creating solid rock bass lines! Whether you're an aspiring or a seasoned bass player, this workshop will help you play with attitude and confidence. It contains a gold mine of riffs a...

Slap Bass-Technik in den Stilen Cha Cha, Son Montuno, Songo, Timba, Afro-Cuban, Latin Jazz und Latin Jazz in 7

This Berklee Workshop is for bassists beyond beginning methods who now seek comprehensive knowledge of all basic and extended chords. Features exercises for developing technique and melodic sense in a...