100 Indie Rock Riffs for Guitar, Alexander Joseph

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.

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• 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.

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• Are you struggling to learn authentic Gypsy Jazz guitar?
• Do you want to play effortless Django-inspired guitar licks?
• Are you ready to create your own Gypsy Jazz guitar solos?

Robin Nolan has spent his life sharing his first-hand Gypsy Jazz guitar experience with a worldwide community of musicians, and his insights have revolutionised the playing thousands of grateful students.

The Most Comprehensive Gypsy Jazz Guitar Method Ever Made

In Beginner Gypsy Jazz Guitar Robin Nolan creates the perfect framework to learn the essentials of the style.

First, you'll master rhythm:

• Learn every essential Gypsy chord shape and know when to use them
• Master the perfect Gypsy Jazz guitar technique to nail the authentic tone
• Discover every Gypsy rhythm strumming pattern you'll ever need
• Practise warm-ups and drills to help you play in time, every time.

Then, you'll discover art of Gypsy Jazz guitar soloing:

• Master the scales and arpeggios that build every Gypsy Jazz guitar solo
• Learn mind-blowing Gypsy licks you can use immediately
• Discover the Gypsy Jazz secret to playing great lines over dominant 7th chords
• Spice things up with cool diminished and augmented sounds
• Play full solos over the classic tune Minor Swing

Beginner Gypsy Jazz Guitar - More Than a Just a Method Book

Robin also introduces you to his Gig-Ready Bootcamp These are the powerful performance skills that prepare you for any jam session, such as:

• How to play solid intros and endings that always work
• A complete guide to essential Gypsy Jazz repertoire
• How to memorise any song - quickly and easily
• Crushing nerves and playing with confidence
• Jam session etiquette

A Gypsy Jazz Guitar Guide Jam-Packed With Bonus Features

We've packed this book full of some amazing bonuses to help you reach your goals much more quickly.

Bonus 1: 22 walk-through videos where Robin helps you perfect the techniques in the book.

Bonus 2: An exclusive 1-hour video lesson that teaches you perfect Gypsy Jazz guitar rhythm playing.

Bonus 3: Get Robin's personal Spotify playlist of essential Gypsy Jazz tunes, specially curated for you.

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Beginner Gypsy Jazz Guitar contains over 100 notated examples, each with supporting audio examples, so you can hear exactly how everything should sound. You'll be able to play along with the track to perfect your rhythm, tone and feel. You can download them all for free from our dedicated website.

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• How to play flawless shred guitar, taught in an easy-to-follow manner
• The secrets of fast alternate picking guitar technique
• How to sweep-pick arpeggios the right way and avoid common mistakes
• Legato guitar technique in the styles of Satriani, Govan and Gilbert
• Exotic scale runs in the styles of Malmsteen, Skolnick and Laiho
• Neo-classical metal guitar exercises and licks
• Simple to advanced guitar tapping techniques
• Over 100 exercises and guitar licks with FREE supporting audio to download
• Great tips on guitar tone and the use of distortion

Rock Guitar Mode Mastery

A comprehensive guide to the modes that shows how to creatively apply them to rock and shred metal guitar. This book enables you to get right inside the music, understand how those rock and metal guitar parts are constructed, and begin to create your own. Chris Zoupa's no-nonsense, common sense guide shows us how to use each mode in its correct context. Throughout this book the focus is on making great music, not simply acquiring knowledge.

What you'll learn:

• A clear guide that cuts through the confusion many have about modal guitar playing
• Scales, pentatonic patterns and arpeggios for each mode
• How the great rock and metal players use the modes to compose and improvise solos
• Licks in the style of Kirk Hammett, Michael Paget, Mark Tremonti, Alex Skolnick, Slash, Alexi Laiho, Paul Gilbert and many more
• Creative ways of using modes so they don't sound like boring scales, along with numerous shred technique such as alternate picking, legato, sweep picking and tapping

Shred Guitar Improvisation

In Shred Guitar Improvisation, you'll learn the essential knowledge you need to cover a huge variety of playing situations. You'll also build your shred guitar vocabulary with hundreds of creative licks Chris Zoupa shows you tons of different ways of varying scales and shred sequences to keep them surprising, exciting and unpredictable.

Creative Shred guitar techniques you'll learn:

• Essential harmony and chord theory
• Scale and arpeggio choices to play over diatonic chords
• Scale and arpeggio choices for non-diatonic chords
• Powerful licks for every scale/arpeggio in the book
• How to solo with chord fragments
• How to break away from clich d box shape licks
• How to compose your own improvised solos

• Eddie Cochran
• Scotty Moore
• Cliff Gallup
• Joe Maphis
• Grady Martin
• Brian Setzer

Rockabilly Signature Licks

You'll begin by learning the essential vocabulary of Rockabilly and discover classic "building block" phrases to quickly build your chops, along with just enough theory to help you create your own authentic sounding lines.

Next, you'll master the essential rhythm guitar playing skills of Rockabilly so you can groove with any band.

Advanced Rockabilly Soloing Techniques

As your Rockabilly guitar skills continue to develop, the language gets more advanced as you learn intricate licks based around Rockabilly techniques like:

• Fast hammer-on and pull-off licks
• Banjo roll techniques for rhythm and lead guitar
• Combining guitar techniques to build solos

Full-Length Rockabilly Solos

To round off your Rockabilly masterclass, you'll learn to play no less than 12 full-length Rockabilly soloing studies that demonstrate how to combine each technique into exciting, attention grabbing and musical solos.

It's all here, from aggressive Rock 'n' Roll to amazing Travis picked and banjo rolled performances.

Bonus 1 - Not just a "100 licks" book, 100 Rockabilly Licks for Guitar contains over a dozen full-length 12-bar blues sequences that put the licks and language into musical focus.

Bonus 2- Discover the perfect Rockabilly guitar gear in the bonus, Guitars, Amps & Effects section

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100 Licks for Rockabilly Guitar contains over 100 supporting audio examples to help you get inside the music and quickly hear exactly how each lick should be played.

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