Just for Fun: Swing Jazz Banjo is designed for your total enjoyment. Each featured song is arranged in the authentic early jazz-era style, simplified just enough to keep it fun and easy, yet musically very satisfying. Standard notation, TAB, chords, lyrics, and a chord dictionary are included. Plus, guitar, ukulele, and mandolin books with matching arrangements are available---just for fun! Titles: *Ain't Misbehavin' *Blue Moon *Bye Bye Blackbird *Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue *I'll See You in My Dreams *I'm in the Mood for Love *It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) *Makin' Whoopee *More Than You Know *Singin' in the Rain *Stars Fell on Alabama *When You're Smiling

Just for Fun: Swing Jazz Ukulele is designed for your total enjoyment. Each featured song is arranged in the authentic early jazz-era style, simplified just enough to keep it fun and easy, yet musically very satisfying. Standard notation, TAB, chords, lyrics, and a chord dictionary are included. Plus, guitar, mandolin, and banjo books with matching arrangements are available---just for fun! Titles: *Ain't Misbehavin' *Blue Moon *Bye Bye Blackbird *Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue *I'll See You in My Dreams *I'm in the Mood for Love *It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) *Makin' Whoopee *More Than You Know *Singin' in the Rain *Stars Fell on Alabama *When You're Smiling

Each featured song is arranged in the authentic early jazz-era style, simplified just enough to keep it fun and easy, yet musically satisfying. Standard notation, TAB, chords, lyrics, and a chord dictionary are included.

Just for Fun: Swing Jazz Guitar is designed for your total enjoyment. Each featured song is arranged in the authentic early jazz-era style, simplified just enough to keep it fun and easy, yet musically very satisfying. Standard notation, TAB, chords, lyrics, and a chord dictionary are included. Plus, ukulele, mandolin, and banjo books with matching arrangements are available---just for fun! Titles: *Ain't Misbehavin' *Blue Moon *Bye Bye Blackbird *Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue *I'll See You in My Dreams *I'm in the Mood for Love *It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) *Makin' Whoopee *More Than You Know *Singin' in the Rain *Stars Fell on Alabama *When You're Smiling

Just for Fun: Swing Jazz Mandolin is designed for your total enjoyment. Each featured song is arranged in the authentic early jazz-era style, simplified just enough to keep it fun and easy, yet musically very satisfying. Standard notation, TAB, chords, lyrics, and a chord dictionary are included. Plus, guitar, ukulele, and banjo books with matching arrangements are available---just for fun! Titles: *Ain't Misbehavin' *Blue Moon *Bye Bye Blackbird *Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue *I'll See You in My Dreams *I'm in the Mood for Love *It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) *Makin' Whoopee *More Than You Know *Singin' in the Rain *Stars Fell on Alabama *When You're Smiling

No longer confined to basic folk genres, any mandolinist aspiring to a broader comprehension of music, including swing, blues, pop, choro, broadway, and even classical can expand his/her playing and through a working knowledge of jazz fundamentals. This breakthrough approach in mandolin pedagogy takes four uncomplicated fretboard patterns (FFcP) and drills a physical familiarity into the player's fingers, softening the fear of upper frets and prepares for the harmonic alterations necessary for effective and intuitive playing of more complex contemporary music.A brief introduction into modes, the player is eased into jamming with audio accompaniment (CD), and eventually an initiation into the most fundamental jazz chord progression of all, the 'ii V7 I' pattern. from the horizontal (melody) to the vertical (chords) and back, the results are a both instinctive and physical grasp of tonal centers and the improvisational fodder of effective performing. an emphasis on pinky strength, finger control and sustain, the book's exercises also develop the player's concepts of tone and melody. Further supportive resources including MP3 audio tracks are also available on the internet. http://www.jazzmando.com/webtracks.shtml

The Herb Ellis Jazz Guitar Method is designed to take the mystery out of playing jazz guitar. Each book in the method is based on one of the three pivotal chord progressions in the jazz guitarist's repertoire. Herb teaches single-note improvisation through a system of simple shapes" that are derived from chord fingerings."

AN INTERACTIVE, SWING-ALONG PICTURE BOOK—WITH 12 SOUND CHIPS! Are you ready to swing? Discover the wonders of jazz: How to get in the groove, what it means to play a solo, and the joy of singing along in a call-and-response. In this interactive swing-along picture book with 12 sound chips, you’ll hear the instruments of jazz—the rhythm section with its banjo, drums, and tuba, and the leads, like the clarinet, trumpet, and trombone. And you’ll hear singers scat, improvising melodies with nonsense syllables like be-bop and doo-we-ah! Along the way, you’ll learn how this unique African American art form started in New Orleans, and how jazz changed over time as innovative musicians like King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Billie Holiday added their own ideas to it. Press the buttons to hear the band, the rhythms, and the singer calling out: “OH WHEN THE SAINTS—oh when the saints…”

They may wear cowboy hats and boots and sing about "faded love," but western swing musicians have always played jazz! From Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys to Asleep at the Wheel, western swing performers have played swing jazz on traditional country instruments, with all of the required elements of jazz, and some of the best solo improvisation ever heard. In this book, Jean A. Boyd explores the origins and development of western swing as a vibrant current in the mainstream of jazz. She focuses in particular on the performers who made the music, drawing on personal interviews with some fifty living western swing musicians. From pioneers such as Cliff Bruner and Eldon Shamblin to current performers such as Johnny Gimble, the musicians make important connections between the big band swing jazz they heard on the radio and the western swing they created and played across the Southwest from Texas to California. From this first-hand testimony, Boyd re-creates the world of western swing-the dance halls, recording studios, and live radio shows that broadcast the music to an enthusiastic listening audience. Although the performers typically came from the same rural roots that nurtured country music, their words make it clear that they considered themselves neither "hillbillies" nor "country pickers," but jazz musicians whose performance approach and repertory were no different from those of mainstream jazz. This important aspect of the western swing story has never been told before.

(Strum Together). The Strum Together series enables players of five different instruments or any combination of them to "strum together" on 70 great songs. This easy-to-use format features melody, lyrics, and chord diagrams for five popular folk instruments: standard ukulele, baritone ukulele, guitar, mandolin, and banjo. This collection includes: All My Loving * The Boys of Summer * Can You Feel the Love Tonight * Don't You (Forget About Me) * Everybody Wants to Rule the World * Free Bird * Hello * I Will Always Love You * My Girl * Open Arms * Sweet Child O' Mine * Unchained Melody * What a Wonderful World * You're the One That I Want * and more.