Berklee Press Announces New Jazz Guitar and Bass Titles
Berklee Jazz Bass is written by a team of past and present Berklee instructors. This new title will help students learn the intricacies of playing jazz by expanding basic technique to create interesting and grooving bass lines and melodically interesting solos. The book includes access to 166 online audio tracks of demonstrations and play-alongs, featuring a jazz combo playing bass lines and solos over standard jazz progressions. $19.99
Contemporary Jazz Guitar Solos by Michael Kaplan teaches 12 contemporary jazz guitar solos from six great artists: Jim Hall, John Scofeld, Pat Martino, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Biréli Lagréne and Mike Stern. Each solo includes a technical introduction with analytical insights and references to its classic recording. The transcribed solos include traditional notation and tablature. Songs include “All the Things You Are,” “Days of Wine and Roses,” “Oleo,” “St. Thomas,” and more. $16.99
Jazz Guitar Fretboard Navigation – From Bach to Bebop by Mark White helps students 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. The result is a comprehensive approach to the guitar fingerboard that combines vertical orientations mixed with side-to-side and diagonal phrasing. The accompanying online recordings include demonstration and play-along tracks, including guitar duets and jazz combos. $19.99
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