Ultra Smooth Jazz Play-A-Long Songbook For C Instruments (Book/CD)

Following the worldwide success of their instructional music series Ultra Smooth Jazz Grooves', the Super Groovers decided to create a play-a-long book of full length songs from their two albums Supergroovin’ and Mainline Connection. They picked songs that would provide music students with a varied repertoire, ranging from the pop/jazz style of You Are The Only One In My Life and minor blues of To The T to the latin sound of Groovin’ With The In Crowd and the gospel style of To Our Loved Ones . The Ultra Smooth Jazz Play-A-Long Songbook For C Instruments contains 13 songs and is accompanied by a CD containing full rhythm backing tracks. All of the songs from the book can also be purchased separately in an in MP3 file format that includes the Sax melody parts. Watch a preview of the Ultra Smooth Jazz Play-A-Long Songbook For C Instruments :

Ultra Smooth Jazz Play-A-Long Songbook for Bb & Eb Instruments

Ultra Smooth Jazz Play-A-Long Songbook for Bb & Eb Instruments is a play-a-long book of full length songs from two albums from The Super Groovers, Supergroovin? and Mainline Connection. The songs selected for this play-a-long are designed to give the music student a variety of styles to choose from, ranging from the pop/jazz style of You Are The Only One In My Life, minor blues of To The T and A Cry For Peace, funky/blues of Super Groover, latin style of Groovin? With The In Crowd and Villefranche Sur Mer, gospel style of To Our Loved Ones, reggae style of Right Track Wrong train To Jamaica, funky/jazz of Mainline Connection, Keeping The Past Alive and the bonus track Destinasian and lastly the funky jazz/swing feel of Spritual Seeker.The enclosed CD features full rhythm backing tracks.

Ultra Smooth Jazz Grooves for Bass

Ultra Smooth Jazz Grooves For Violin

Internationally renowned authors, musicians and recording artists, Frank Villafranca and Andrew D. Gordon of The Super Groovers have composed a collection of grooves and melodies in the Smooth Jazz Genre creating an exciting supplemental jazz study series for beginner, intermediate and advanced jazz students and musicians.After releasing their first CD Supergroovin, which received world wide airplay, they recognized a need in the music publishing business for a series of books on contemporary improvising within the "Smooth Jazz" genre. Andrew composed and recorded all the rhythm tracks used in this book. In their opinion, the melodies were so catchy they couldn't resist developing them into completed songs.Mainline Connection, Villefranche?sur-Mer and You're The Only One In My Life, are a few featured on their second CD, Mainline Connection.The smooth jazz grooves in this 50 page book feature a variety of contemporary rhythm section styles including R&B, Jazz, Funk, Top 40, Rock, Gospel, Hip Hop and Latin. These stylistic influences are frequently associated with smooth jazz. Popular artists in this genre include, The Super Groovers, David Sanborn, Eric Marienthal, Kenny G, David Benoit, Dave Koz, Tom Scott, Gerald Albright, Candy Dulfer, Wilton Felder, Boney James, Chris Botti, Chuck Mangione, Sade, George Benson, Peter White, Lee Ritenour, Earl Klugh, Larry Carlton, Jeff Lorber, Brian Culbertson, George Duke, Paul Hardcastle, Joe Sample, Spyro Gyra, Pat Metheny, Four Play, The Yellow Jackets and The Rippingtons. We suggest that you become acquainted with as many of these artists as possible.On each of the 20 tracks, the groove is separated into 3 melodic ideas. Each melodic idea (example or riff) is played first, by the Violin with the groove, followed by just the rhythm section groove, without the Violin. The 1st example is usually the easiest, the 2nd slightly harder and the 3rd the most difficult.The Super Groovers were very fortunate to have violinist extraordinaire Christian Howes perform and record the Violin examples in the book.Versions for each groove are available as midi files or extended MP3 files where the rhythm tracks for each groove are recorded for approximately 2 minutes. Customer Comments I have just been given your book as a christmas present - and I am so happy to have it! Your grooves are amazing! I feel like it is really inspriring. The book was bought from Musicroom in Brighton on Western Road. My fa

Ultra Smooth Jazz Grooves for Trumpet

Ultra Smooth Jazz Grooves For Flute

Internationally renowned authors, musicians and recording artists, Frank Villafranca and Andrew D. Gordon of The Super Groovers have composed a collection of grooves and melodies in the Smooth Jazz Genre creating an exciting supplemental jazz study series for beginner, intermediate and advanced jazz students and musicians. After releasing their first CD Supergroovin, which received world wide airplay, they recognized a need in the music publishing business for a series of books on contemporary improvising within the "Smooth Jazz" genre. Andrew composed and recorded all the rhythm tracks used in this book. In their opinion, the melodies were so catchy they couldn't resist developing them into completed songs. Mainline Connection, Villefranche?sur-Mer and You're The Only One In My Life, are a few featured on their second CD, Mainline Connection. The smooth jazz grooves in this 50 page book feature a variety of contemporary rhythm section styles including R&B, Jazz, Funk, Top 40, Rock, Gospel, Hip Hop and Latin. These stylistic influences are frequently associated with smooth jazz. Popular artists in this genre include, The Super Groovers, David Sanborn, Eric Marienthal, Kenny G, David Benoit, Dave Koz, Tom Scott, Gerald Albright, Candy Dulfer, Wilton Felder, Boney James, Chris Botti, Chuck Mangione, Sade, George Benson, Peter White, Lee Ritenour, Earl Klugh, Larry Carlton, Jeff Lorber, Brian Culbertson, George Duke, Paul Hardcastle, Joe Sample, Spyro Gyra, Pat Metheny, Four Play, The Yellow Jackets and The Rippingtons. We suggest that you become acquainted with as many of these artists as possible. On each of the 20 tracks, the groove is separated into 3 melodic ideas. Each melodic idea (example or riff) is played first, by the Flute with the groove, followed by just the rhythm section groove, without the Flute. The 1st example is usually the easiest, the 2nd slightly harder and the 3rd the most difficult. Versions for each groove are available as midi files or extended MP3 files where the rhythm tracks for each groove are recorded for approximately 2 minutes. Customer Comments I have just been given your book as a christmas present - and I am so happy to have it! Your grooves are amazing! I feel like it is really inspriring. The book was bought from Musicroom in Brighton on Western Road. My favourites so far are track 1,2 and 4... I'm on the second riff so far and they are so good!! Thank you for making the book :)

Ultra Smooth Jazz Grooves for Guitar

The smooth jazz grooves in this 46 page book feature a variety of contemporary rhythm section styles including R&B, Jazz, Funk, Top 40, Rock, Gospel, Hip Hop and Latin. These stylistic influences are frequently associated with smooth jazz.On each of the 20 tracks, the groove is separated into 3 melodic ideas. Each melodic idea (example or riff) is played first, by the guitar with the groove, followed by just the rhythm section groove, without the guitar. The 1st example is usually the easiest, the 2nd slightly harder and the 3rd the most difficult. Customer Comments I have just been given your book as a christmas present - and I am so happy to have it! Your grooves are amazing! I feel like it is really inspriring. The book was bought from Musicroom in Brighton on Western Road. My favourites so far are track 1,2 and 4... I'm on the second riff so far and they are so good!! Thank you for making the book :)

Ultra Smooth Jazz Grooves For Piano/Keyboards

Internationally renowned authors, musicians and recording artists, Frank Villafranca and Andrew D. Gordon of The Super Groovers have composed a collection of grooves and melodies in the Smooth Jazz Genre creating an exciting supplemental jazz study series for beginner, intermediate and advanced jazz students and musicians.After releasing their first CD "Supergroovin", which received world wide airplay, they recognized a need in the music publishing business for a series of books on contemporary improvising within the "Smooth Jazz" genre. Andrew composed and recorded all the rhythm tracks used in this book. In their opinion, the melodies were so catchy they couldn't resist developing them into completed songs. Mainline Connection, Villefranche-sur-Mer and You're The Only One In My Life, are a few featured on their second CD, Mainline Connection.The smooth jazz grooves in this 50 page book feature a variety of contemporary rhythm section styles including R&B, Jazz, Funk, Top 40, Rock, Gospel, Hip Hop and Latin. Customer Comments I have just been given your book as a christmas present - and I am so happy to have it! Your grooves are amazing! I feel like it is really inspriring. The book was bought from Musicroom in Brighton on Western Road. My favourites so far are track 1,2 and 4... I'm on the second riff so far and they are so good!! Thank you for making the book :)

Ultra Smooth Jazz Grooves for E Flat (Alto) Sax

Contemporary Sax styles by The Super Groovers, featuring Frank Villafranca on Saxophone and Andrew D. Gordon on Keyboards and Guitar.The smooth jazz grooves in this book feature a variety of contemporary rhythm section styles including Jazz, R&B, Rock, Gospel, Hip-Hop, and Latin.On each of the twenty tracks, the groove is separated into three melodic ideas. Each melodic idea (example or riff) is played first, by the Saxophone with the groove, followed by just the rhythm section groove, without Sax. The first example is usually the easiest, the second slightly harder and the third the most difficult."Andrew D. Gordon and A.D.G. Productions have done a fine job of compiling this information in an attractive and accessible package. Many a smooth jazz aficionado will appreciate this collection in print and on CD. - Skip Spratt, SaxShed.com Customer Comments I have just been given your book as a christmas present - and I am so happy to have it! Your grooves are amazing! I feel like it is really inspriring. The book was bought from Musicroom in Brighton on Western Road. My favourites so far are track 1,2 and 4... I'm on the second riff so far and they are so good!! Thank you for making the book :)

Ultra Smooth Jazz Grooves for B Flat (Tenor) Sax

Contemporary Sax styles by The Super Groovers, featuring Frank Villafranca on Saxophone and Andrew D. Gordon on Keyboards and Guitar.The smooth jazz grooves in this book feature a variety of contemporary rhythm section styles including Jazz, R&B, Rock, Gospel, Hip-Hop, and Latin.On each of the twenty tracks, the groove is seperated into three melodic ideas. Each melodic idea (example or riff) is played first, by the Saxophone with the groove, followed by just the rhythm section groove, without Sax. The first example is usually the easiest, the second slightly harder and the third the most difficult.Customer CommentsI have just been given your book as a christmas present - and I am so happy to have it!Your grooves are amazing! I feel like it is really inspriring.The book was bought from Musicroom in Brighton on Western Road.My favourites so far are track 1,2 and 4... I'm on the second riff so far and they are so good!!Thank you for making the book :)

Gospel Riffs God Would Love To Hear- Organ

Gospel Riffs God Would Love To Hear for Organ by Andrew Gordon is a compendium of 33 Contemporary Gospel riffs for organists to learn the art of Gospel stylings. There are also arrangements of some traditional Gospel songs including Amazing Grace and When The Saints Go Marching In showing how to incorporate the riffs in the book into these well known Gospel songs. Play in the styles of Ray Charles, Dr. John, Billy Preston, Leon Russell, and Andre Crouch and see how Blues, Jazz and other contemporary styles are associated with the Gospel sound Customer Comment About This Book: Gospel Riffs God Would Love To Hear I love Gospel music, and so far with Andrew Gordon's books Ihaven't been disappointed. This book was no exception. And even though I thought

Gospel Riffs God Would Love To Hear - Piano

Gospel Riffs God Would Love To Hear for Piano/Keyboards by Andrew Gordon is a compendium of 33 Contemporary Gospel riffs for piano and keyboard players to learn the art of Gospel stylings. There are also arrangements of some traditional Gospel songs including Amazing Grace and When The Saints Go Marching In showing how to incorporate the riffs in the book into these well known Gospel songs. Play in the styles of Ray Charles, Dr. John, Billy Preston, Leon Russell, and Andre Crouch and see how Blues, Jazz and other contemporary styles are associated with the Gospel sound. Customer Comment About This Book: Gospel Riffs God Would Love To Hear I love Gospel music, and so far withAndrew Gordon's books I haven't been disappointed. This book was no exception.

100 ULTIMATE SMOOTH JAZZ RIFFS FOR PIANO/KEYBOARDS

With the continued worldwide success of the book series Ultra Smooth Jazz Grooves that I co-authored with sax player Frank Villafranca based on compositions that we wrote for our band The Super Groovers, I have now authored this series of Smooth Jazz books for the following instruments: Piano/Keyboards, Guitar/Bass, Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Tenor and Alto Saxes, Trumpet and Trombone. Smooth Jazz covers a wide variety of different styles and I have combined elements of Jazz, Rock, Pop, Blues, Latin, GospeL Funk and R&B, Classical, Folk, New Age styles into the examples in the book. Smooth Jazz” is a genre of music that is predominately instrumental, usually very melodic in nature and in most cases features some jazz improvisation. and is usually performed at a medium tempo and tends to feature piano /keyboards, saxophone, trumpet, and guitar as the most common lead instruments playing the melody. Most Smooth Jazz is well produced and has memorable melodies over a backdrop of multiple tracks of rhythm instruments, keyboards, guitar, strings, synth pads, drums and percussion. Each riff has been recorded with the solo melodic instrument along with a rhythm backing track of guitar, keyboards/synths, bass, drums/percussion followed by just the backing tracks for you to practice with. Also included are backing tracks playing the chord progression through 10 times giving you extended time to practice your improvisational skills using the riffs in the book and developing them into your own style.

Merengue Piano Styles

This book is the latest addition to Carlos Campos? series of Afro-Latin books for keyboard. Mr. Campos? previous books in this genre are Salsa: Afro-Cuban Montunos for Piano, Salsa: Further Adventures in Afro-Cuban Music, Latin Jazz Piano Vol. 1, Ultimate Latin Riffs and Salsa: Afro-Cuban Montunos for Guitar.In Merengue Piano Styles, Mr. Campos delves into an aspect of the music of the Dominican Republic called merengue, known for its intricate rhythms and ultra fast tempos. Mr. Campos divides most of the examples in this book into ?Derecho? and ?Pambiche? styles. Selected examples are included in the accompanying CD, recorded at different tempos. Tracks containing bass and percussion only are also included.The complete set of recordings containing every example in this book are also available in high quality mp3 files (over 300 megabytes of mp3 files) and/or midi files, see below.While living in Boston, Carlos Campos spent many years studying and performing this particular genre with many merengue bands in the New England area. He later arranged, produced and recorded for several merengue artists. In the past, the only way to learn how to play the different styles of Afro-Latin music was to live in an area where that music genre was already very popular, so that one might connect with as many authentic musicians as possible, learning one pattern here, another there, via a very slow learning process that could take years if not decades to accomplish.Even though the process of immersing oneself fully and experientially into the musical style of our choosing is absolutely necessary for our musical growth, the need for concise, well-written and organized materials, written by someone who knows and lives this type of music is also essential.We at ADG believe that Mr. Campos? books have done a great service to the musical community by making Afro-Latin musical styles more accessible to students worldwide. We hope that this book and the rest of Mr. Campos? books find a special place in your musical world and that they become an integral part of your daily musical practice.