The Guitar Finger Gym, Pratt Simon, Alexander Joseph

• Are you struggling to learn the language of slide blues guitar?
• Want to combine slide blues guitar licks into meaningful, personalized solos?
• Do you need a complete theoretical and technical breakdown of slide guitar soloing?

100 Slide Licks for Blues Guitar goes way beyond every other 'boring' lick book to teach you 100 essential slide guitar licks in the style of the world's 20 greatest slide guitarists....

• 100 slide guitar licks closely mimicking the language of the 20 most important slide guitar players.
• Playing advice and breakdown for every lick, from fingering to musical application.
• Perfectly notated examples with tab, and studio-quality audio to download for free.

Bonus One: Essential discography for every player.

Bonus Two: Tips on phrasing, articulation and how to make each lick your own.

100 Slide Licks for Blues Guitar is different to every other guitar lick book available. It's not simply a cold list of licks, it is a breakdown of the playing style of the world's most important slide guitarists. You won't just copy lines verbatim, you'll internalize the language of the slide guitar masters and incorporate it into your everyday playing.

Along with extensive biographies, the musical style and language of the 20 greatest slide guitar players is discussed and analyzed, and 5 defining, "in the style of" licks for each player are broken down note by note.

You will learn guitar licks in the style of:

Duane Allman - Ry Cooder - Brett Garsed - A.J. Ghent - Billy Gibbons - Warren Haynes - Son House - Elmore James - Robert Johnson - Sonny Landreth - Joey Landreth - Bonnie Raitt - Chris Rea - Tampa Red - Gary Rossington - Derek Trucks - Joe Walsh - Muddy Waters - Bukka White - Johnny Winter -

Learning slide guitar licks from paper is one thing, but once you hear how to apply them, they become music. 100 Slide Licks for Blues Guitar contains 100 supporting audio examples and backing tracks to help you get inside the music, and quickly apply each new lick in any real musical situation.

Buy it now to bring the authentic language of the slide blues guitar legends into your playing.

• How to play with ease and efficiency
• Practical exercises to achieve good posture and avoid muscle strain and injury
• Perfect finger, hand, wrist and arm movement
• How to relax hand muscles effectively and still achieve great tone
• The correct fingering for all scales and arpeggios
• The counterintuitive technique needed to play flourishes of notes at lightning speed

Clear diagrams throughout the book will ensure you avoid the mistakes many pianists make. You'll also learn the techniques you've heard professional pianists use to introduce light and shade into their playing, and to create exciting or reflective moods.

This is a practical book packed, packed with useful exercises distilled over many years of teaching, to refine your technique and make you the best pianist you can be.

• Strike and release exercises to build finger strength and independence
• Exercises to master legato and staccato technique
• Introduce light and shade into your playing using one simple technique
• Switch effortlessly between 1/18 note and 1/16th note passages
• Master complete left- and right-hand independence

There's more In the process of crafting your technical skills, you'll learn every major and minor scale and key arpeggios. You'll also learn how to apply these techniques to the pieces you are working on.

Make quicker progress by learning the right way to practice, and how to have a productive practice session - every time. You'll also discover a proven method for learning new pieces

Over 140 studio-quality audio examples will help you hear how every exercise should sound.

Buy it now and perfect your piano technique

100 Modern Jazz Licks for Piano is so much more than a book of licks It's a doorway into the minds of the most innovative jazz pianists ever recorded...

• Learn the style of 10 modern jazz piano giants
• Master 10 genre-defining piano licks for each player
• Combine and personalize jazz vocabulary into your own unique style
• Discover extensive biographies and essential discographies for every player

100 Modern Jazz Licks for Piano will lift your playing to new heights.

We can learn only so much from transcriptions, so this book goes one further by explaining the harmonic and melodic concepts used by the jazz piano masters. You'll build an intimate knowledge of the theory and techniques that fuel their musical creativity. In fact, you'll get years of insight condensed into one powerful resource.

Learn genre-defining piano lines in the style of:

Bud Powell - Oscar Peterson - Thelonious Monk - George Shearing - Bill Evans - McCoy Tyner - Herbie Hancock - Chick Corea - Keith Jarrett - Brad Mehldau -

• 100 jazz piano licks in the style of 10 essential jazz pianists
• Explanations of the theory and techniques that help you get behind the licks
• Playing advice and breakdown of every lick, from fingering to application
• A complete study piece in the style of Keith Jarrett that will help you to construct your own solos
• Perfectly notated examples with studio-quality audio to download for free

Bonus: Essential listening tips for each pianist - learn from their seminal recordings

Bonus: Tips on phrasing, articulation and how to make each lick your own

Each player in this book fundamentally changed the sound of jazz piano through their innovations. More than a collection of licks, you'll receive a history lesson on the development of jazz piano - from the ground-breaking bebop of Bud Powell to the advanced contrapuntal harmonies of Brad Mehldau.

Along with mastering 100 exciting jazz piano licks, you'll learn a complete solo in the style of arch-improviser Keith Jarrett. This is a master class in melodic improvisation for those who truly want to learn jazz piano.

100 studio-quality audio examples help you hear how each lick should sound. You'll get inside the music and quickly learn to apply each every new idea to any musical situation.

Buy it now and take your jazz piano playing to new heights.