Berklee Guide

Enrich your drumming with world rhythms and sounds. World music presents many learning opportunities and challenges, especially for drums and percussion. Learning grooves from Africa, Latin America, S...

Play jazz with tremendous facility and authentic vocabulary. Learn to develop your own sound, perform a wide variety of essential jazz time feels, and improvise dynamic fills and solos, taught in the...

Learn to play the Djembe. This complete method by Michael Markus will teach you how to produce a good sound, develop a healthy technique and learn the essential concepts, sounds and rhythms of West Af...

Improvisation is the art of real-time composition. This book will guide you through exploring some of the many possible scale choices that can be used with chords and chord progressions, giving you a...

Enrich your playing with advanced jazz harmonies. This workbook will help you play with a contemporary jazz sound, interpret leadsheets, and use upper-structure triads to expand your comping palette....

Learn to improvise using the techniques pioneered by piano greats Lenny Tristano and Dave McKenna. This methodical approach to learning the art of solo jazz piano improvisation will free your creative...

Learn deep funk/R&B guitar! These hands-on exercises, licks, and technical discussions will help you play in the style of Kool and the Gang, Prince, James Brown, Sly and the Family Stone, Jimi Hendrix...

These studies provide comprehensive insight and practice into many different aspects of drumming. They will help you to master a broad range of techniques and integrate them into your playing so that...

Lerne zu spielen wie die großen Blues-Stars B. B. King, Freddy King, Albert Collins, Robert Lockwood Jr. , Jimmie Vaughan u. a. ! ''Blues Guitar Technique' ist die technikorientierte Ergänzung zu Mike...

Learn the contemporary techniques and practices of the modern cello. The collection is a vital exploration of 21st-century cello techniques that every contemporary cellist should know when playing mus...

Learn those beautiful hot licks and fingerpicking patterns of country music. You'll learn all about the various types of country music, from classic to current-from Western Swing to bluegrass and ever...

Learn to improvise like an instrumentalist! Artful vocal jazz improvisation requires knowing the changes, and all musicians need to understand what is happening on the musical landscape. This book wil...

Eine unverzichtbare Sammlung von Jazz- und Blues-Gesangsklassikern! Dieses einzigartige Gesangsbuch wurde sorgfältig von Mitgliedern der Gesangsfakultät des Berklee College of Music zusammengestellt,...

Start playing jazz guitar! This book will help you understand and master the essential concepts and techniques of jazz, whatever style you may already know. You'll learn jazz theory and harmony throug...

Learn to improvise fluently over common jazz progressions. Learn to use simple source material, such as four-note cells, and characteristic bebop motifs to help you make fast progress towards making t...

Make advanced guitar harmonies more intuitive and effective. This inventive approach to imagining and organizing notes will expand your concept of guitar harmony. You will be able to organize and use...

Develop a fingerboard facility that fuses the great navigational conception of the classical guitar tradition with the improvisational, on-the-fly, solo content/language of the modern jazz guitarist,...

Mit dieser umfassenden Methode lernen Sie die reichhaltige Welt der Jazzgitarre kennen. In 47 Kapiteln lernen Sie nicht nur die wichtigsten Stücke und stilistischen Nuancen des Jazz kennen, sondern we...

Zwölf originalgetreue Gitarrensoli in Tabulatur und Standardnotation von sechs großartigen Künstlern: Jim Hall, John Scofield, Pat Martino, Kurt Rosenwindel, Biréli Lagréne und Mike Stern. Zu jedem Ti...

Unleash the creative potential of your guitar, and express your imagination through your music! This inspiring, practical and fun approach to composing and improvising will develop your sense of dynam...

Learn the essential tools and skills for playing jazz guitar. This practical guidebook will help you master the theory, technique, and conceptual framework for how to play jazz: comping chords, soloin...

Sweep picking and arpeggios are among the most useful hard rock/metal/shred techniques, though they are also applicable to any style. Joe Stump takes you through studies, etudes, and track excerpts ra...

This chord dictionary includes over 100 rock chord forms, from open-position chords to barre chords and drop-tunings, with a comprehensive glossary of the essential chords in all 12 keys. It is organi...

Increase your command of the guitar. Joe Stump reveals licks, techniques, and exerises to build your guitar technique. Learn licks and techniques comon in rock/metal sytles, and commit them to finger...

Master harmony on the violin fingerboard! This book will give you the fluency to improvise, play comping (accompanying) parts, add background lines, and deepen your enjoyment of all kinds of music. Th...