Jazz Band Music - All Levels

Welcome to the School of the Blues Lesson Series! This book and recording were created to help give you context to all the music you worked so hard to learn. The recorded Play-Along Trax have no bass. This gives you theopportunity to work on your blues bass patterns. I have used several different keys and tempos throughout these Play-Along Trax. These Play-Along Trax give you a very realistic example of how you would play live with a band. Music examples are kept fairly simple to make sure this book is accessible to bass players just above the beginning level. For best understanding of these techniques refer to Mel Bay's Blues Bass, Level 1 (MB21063BCD). Lastly, all the references in this book are written for a right-handed four string electric bass. If you play a 5 string bass you just need to extend the examples to include your B string. If you play left-handed then you need to reverse any references to the left and right hands. We will use standard music notation along with bass tablature (TAB) for this book. Includes access to online audio

(Guitar). This book contains a collection of 200 chord progressions over which you can practice your latest and greatest licks, plus audio demos of every single one. The audio tracks range from approximately one minute (for the short progressions) to four minutes or more (for the full-length "song" progressions), and numerous styles, keys, and tempos are covered to make sure you're well-versed in practically every style. Rest assured, you'll get plenty of time to milk your melodies for all they're worth! Whether you're a rocker, a jazzer, a bluesman, or a bluegrasser, the Big Book of Backing Tracks has plenty for you.

(Harmonica Play-Along). The Harmonica Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily. Just follow the notation, listen to the audio to hear how the harmonica should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The melody and lyrics are also included in case you want to sing, or to simply help you follow along. Volume 9 includes: Got My Mo Jo Working * Hard Hearted Woman * Help Me * I Ain't Got You * Juke * Messin' with the Kid * One More Heartache * Walking by Myself.

(Fake Book). Miles Davis gave the jazz world innumerable musical innovations and his supporting musicians provided a virtual who's who of the modern jazz era. This updated Real Book featuring Miles' music contains highly accurate, easy-to-read, musician-friendly lead sheets for 70 of his most famous original compositions: All Blues * Bitches Brew * Blue in Green * Boplicity (Be Bop Lives) * Budo * Eighty One * Flamenco Sketches * Four * Freddie Freeloader * Half Nelson * Miles * Milestones * Nardis * The Serpent's Tooth * Seven Steps to Heaven * Sippin' at Bells * So What * Solar * Somethin' Else * The Theme * Tune Up * Vierd Blues * What It Is * and dozens more top tunes. Essential for every jazz fan! Looking for a particular song? Check out the Real Book Songfinder here.

Blues Tracks is the most effective learning tool you will ever use. There are over 30 tunes that range from simple to complex, all in the style of seminal blues artists like Big Bill Broonzy, B.B. King, Robert Cray, Eric Clapton, and many others. Lead sheets include tips and scales, and the accompaniment audio tracks are long enough to let you stretch out and experiment as your chops develop. The scales shown in standard music notation, TAB, and guitar-neck diagrams. This book and MP3 CD is the perfect way for you to make the most out of your practice time and seriously advance your improvisational skills.

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(Blues Play-Along). For use with all C, B-flat, E-flat, and Bass Clef instruments, the Hal Leonard Blues Play-Along Series is the ultimate jamming tool for all blues musicians. With easy-to-read lead sheets and audio tracks, these first-of-a-kind songbooks will bring your local blues jam right into your house! Each song has two audio tracks: a full stereo mix, and a split track mix with removable guitar, bass, piano, and harmonica parts. 8 songs: Good Morning Little Schoolgirl * Honey Bee * I Can't Be Satisfied * I'm Ready * Mannish Boy * Rollin' Stone (Catfish Blues) * Trouble No More (Someday Baby) * You Shook Me.

Blues Guitar Play-Along Trax, within the School of the Blues Lesson Series, is an exciting play-along that contains the most common grooves used in blues bands today. Notated examples are also provided to give you an idea of how you can approach accompanying a vocalist or instrumentalist. Along with the 12 jam tracks, the book is accompanied by a CD recording of all examples (played by author John Garcia) along with the background music.