A Modern Method for Guitar Scales

A Modern Method for Guitar Scales
Author: Larry Baione
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2018-04-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1540030342

(Berklee Guide). 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 multiple scale fingering options to suit different musical contexts. Practice exercises will help you build your muscle memory as you play different fingering patterns across the strings, and then expand them to three octaves. Graphical illustrations, exercises, and etudes will help reinforce all the most useful scale types. Traditional notation and tablature are included.

A Modern Method for Guitar - Volume 1 (Music Instruction)

A Modern Method for Guitar - Volume 1 (Music Instruction)
Author: William Leavitt
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 197
Release: 1995-08-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1480344540

(Guitar Method). This practical, comprehensive method is used as the basic text for the guitar program at the Berklee College of Music. Volume One builds a solid foundation for beginning guitarists and features a comprehensive range of guitar and music fundamentals, including: scales, melodic studies, chord and arpeggio studies, how to read music, special exercises for developing technique in both hands, voice leading using moveable chord forms, and more.

A Modern Method Guitar

A Modern Method Guitar
Author: William Leavitt
Publisher: Berklee Press Publications
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2020
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780876391990

(Berklee Methods). The William Leavitt Modern Method for Guitar, used as the basic text for the Berklee College of Music guitar program, has stood the test of time and earned a vast and loyal following of dedicated guitar students and instructors. By popular demand, Berklee Press has created a compilation of the original volumes 1, 2, and 3, including all audio and video tracks. Now, serious guitar students and instructors, from beginning through advanced, have the convenience of progressing through all three volumes of this classic guitar method in one comprehensive book. Innovative solos, duets, and exercises progressively teach melody, harmony, and rhythm. This edition contains audio and video produced by William Leavitt's students Charles Chapman and Larry Baione (who was his successor as chair of the Berklee Guitar Department), demonstrating the examples and providing play-along tracks for the ensemble exercises.

Melodic Rhythms for Guitar (Music Instruction)

Melodic Rhythms for Guitar (Music Instruction)
Author: William Leavitt
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 83
Release: 1986-11-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1476867208

(Guitar Method). A thorough presentation of rhythms commonly found in contemporary music, including 68 harmonized melodies and 42 rhythm exercises. This highly respected and popular book is also an excellent source for duets, sight-reading and chord studies.

Complete Jazz Guitar Method: Beginning Jazz Guitar

Complete Jazz Guitar Method: Beginning Jazz Guitar
Author: Jody Fisher
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 100
Release:
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781457408281

Anyone with a knowledge of basic chords and guitar scale fingerings can dig right in and start learning to play jazz right away. Spanning from the major scale and basic triad theory all the way up to extended chords and the modes, this book features a full-length etude or song to go with every new concept introduced. Beginning Jazz Guitar breaks the age-old tradition of dry, intimidating and confusing jazz books, and provides an actual step-by-step and enjoyable method for learning to play in this style. Clearly organized into easily mastered segments, each chapter is divided into separate lessons on harmony or improvisation. All music is shown in standard notation and TAB.

Berklee Basic Guitar - Phase 1

Berklee Basic Guitar - Phase 1
Author: William Leavitt
Publisher: Berklee Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1986-11
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780634013331

"An essential resource for every beginning guitar student. This modern instructional method is designed for individual study or a classroom environment. Guitar technique and reading skills are developed through two-, three-, and four-part ensemble arrangements of both traditional and newly-composed music. To round out your training there is also an introduction to chord playing. 'Berklee Basic Guitar' is THE way to learn guitar. Guitar players quickly advance with the essential tools provided here." -- page 4 of cover.

Reading studies for guitar

Reading studies for guitar
Author: William Leavitt
Publisher: Berklee Press Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1979
Genre: Guitar
ISBN: 9780634013355

(Guitar Solo). 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, and a variety of rhythms and time signatures.

Complete Jazz Guitar Method: Mastering Jazz Guitar, Improvisation

Complete Jazz Guitar Method: Mastering Jazz Guitar, Improvisation
Author: Jody Fisher
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2005-05-03
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1457408317

Expand the boundaries of your knowledge and improvisation skills with this exciting book, which picks up where the improv lessons in Intermediate Jazz Guitar leave off. Topics include improvising over altered dominant chords, the diminished scale, the whole-tone scale, targeting the altered chords, revamping licks, modes of the minor scales and more! Loaded with easy-to-read scale diagrams and example phrases, this book is packed with essential information for the improvising jazz guitarist. All music is shown in standard notation and TAB.

Hal Leonard Guitar Method Book 1

Hal Leonard Guitar Method Book 1
Author: Will Schmid
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 84
Release: 1970-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1476862036

(Guitar Method). The Hal Leonard Guitar Method is designed for anyone just learning to play acoustic or electric guitar. It is based on years of teaching guitar students of all ages, and it also reflects some of the best guitar teaching ideas from around the world. Book 1 includes tuning; playing position; musical symbols; notes in first position; C, G, G7, D, D7, A7, and Em chords; rhythms through eighth notes; strumming and picking; over 80 great songs, riffs, and examples.

Advanced Reading Studies for Guitar (Music Instruction)

Advanced Reading Studies for Guitar (Music Instruction)
Author: William Leavitt
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 114
Release: 1986-11-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1458433099

(Guitar Solo). 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, using positions 8 through 12 and all major, minor and symmetric scales. Individual studies consist of scale passages, arpeggios, intervals and notated chord sequences in various time signatures.