Oscar Stagnaro And Chuck Sher: The Latin Bass Book - A Practical Guide

Rebeca Mauleón: The Salsa Guidebook - For Piano & Ensemble

The Salsa Guidebook by acclaimed pianist Rebeca Mauleón is possible the only authoritative tutorial book on Salsa on the market, with over 260 pages filled with everything you need to know to start playing. Each page is packed with musical examples for Piano, Bass, Drum Set and other Salsa Percussion instruments, as well as really useful excerpts of Salsa sheet music that shows how each instrument is used within the idiosyncratic style. For beginners and advanced musicians alike, this book is regarded as one of the only true method books for Salsa and Latin music.  This is not just a tutorial, though, it also features detailed histories of the tradition, many great photographs of various artists as well as an exhaustive listening guide with suggested records to complement your playing.  With The Salsa Guidebook , you are in great hands - Rebeca Mauleón  has recorded and played with giants in Salsa music such as Santana, Tito Puente and even Poncho Sanchez. So to get inspired by the Latin rhythms and fun styles of Salsa, pick up this Salsa Guidebook  today.

Barry Finnerty: The Serious Jazz Book 2 - The Harmonic Approach

Beginning where the previous book finished, the acclaimed tutor Barry Finnerty has created yet another classic Serious Jazz Book for jazz soloists of all instruments. Barry Finnerty  has worked as a recording artist with jazz legends like Miles Davis, The Brecker Brothers and the Crusaders. Taking the musical talents of virtuosi like these as his inspiration, he explains the key to better improvisation through a melodic approach to chord changes, how they interact and how they are used in context. Finnerty  describes the possible uses and harmonic functions of a single note, not just to enhance your playing ability, but to show you the possibilities inherent in a different, harmonic approach to looking at particular notes. He also goes into detail on how to achieve melodic command of all the possible extensions and alterations of chords, as well as variations on common chord progressions. The Serious Jazz Book 2  will also help you effectively and practically apply the harmonic knowledge that you learned in the first volume. Not only this, but Finnerty  features a great number of melodic examples that use all the chords and progressions previously learned. In this way, Finnerty  expands upon and develops his previous edition to create an acclaimed guide to playing Serious Jazz  as a solo musician.

Mark Levine: How To Voice Standards At The Piano - The Menu

At last! A simple, easy-to-learn method for playing the melodies of your favourite tunes, using hip voicings as played by Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, Kenny Barron, etc. Famed jazz pianist and author of “The Jazz Piano Book,” Mark Levine has created “The Menu” — a succinct guide to learning a multitude of voicings so you can harmonize melodies on the spot. ‘So What’ chords, upper structures, 4th chords, etc. are not only good for ‘comping,’ but are also ideal for voicing melodies. For example, the note G in the melody on top of a D-7 chord is the 4th of the chord. Did you know that a ‘stacked 3rd’ voicing, as well as the ‘Kenny Barron chord’ would be perfect for that? This book explains all of that, so you can instantly play jazz songs with the best available voicings. Using two standards and a bebop melody as examples, Mark breaks each tune up into four-bar sections, then shows the best voicings to use on each chord and why those choices were made. These voicings are all drawn from a one-page ‘Menu’ that, once internalized, will allow you to spontaneously create your own style of playing jazz Piano, based on the masters of the art form.

Dan Greenblatt: Minor Is Major!

Minor Is Major! is the acclaimed book by Dan Greenblatt on mastering notes, patterns and harmonic structures when moving away from major keys. Providing you with a solid foundation for improvising and composing within minor keys, this authoritative tutor on jazz playing will show you precisely how Minor Is Major . If your confidence lies in the major key and you become unsure once a tune moves outside of this, Minor Is Major!  is most definitely the book for you. Dan Greenblatt  gives you hundreds of ways to navigate through the tricky parts of playing jazz, such as chord progressions, scale choices, 'hidden chords' and melodic patterns based on scale intervals.  With clear explanations of the harmonic and melodic minor scales that delves into both the theoretical and practical properties of each, this is truly an indispensable guide. Not only this, but the book analyses how different types of scales can be applied to minor-key progressions, so you can adapt what you already know to an unfamiliar-sounding concept. Not only this, but the book features a vast number of transcriptions of some of the great jazz improvisers to help you gain an insight into how the masters attained their mastery over the minor key. Legends like Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Chick Corea and Dizzy Gillespie among many others are represented, and there are truly no better musicians to learn from. After you have learned the theory and analysed the masters, the book also contains a number of etudes to help you hear and play melodic ideas, as well as other exercises to help you gain the practical skills you need to have confidence playing in the minor key.