Ultimate Play Along Just Classic Jazz Bass Vol3 w/CD (Ultimate Play-Along) Review

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(More customer reviews)If you're looking for books on "how to" play bass or read music then skip this one.There's almost no instruction in this book, but what you do get is GREAT tab and notation for some standard jazz pieces.
This book is good for learning the traditional bass lines and for practicing your timing/tempo when there's no one else around.I wish the CD had two versions of each song (one with and one without bass), but it doesn't.For the price, though, this is a pretty good way to learn some songs and practice without having a full band in your garage.
Nine standard jazz pieces are covered.Each song comes with the actual tune on CD, the printed song with bass clef and tab, and if that weren't enough you also get the bass solo and lead sheet.
Be careful, though, the lead sheet is not in tablature, so you should already know (or be willing to learn) how to read traditional music notation.Fortunately, since the book includes both the full version (notation and tablature) you can easily go back and forth as you progress.The lead sheet is great for taking on stage since it has all the essentials for the song on one easy to read sheet.

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Jazz greats Jimmy Haslip and Barry Coates demonstrate how to play classic trio jazz using the most important great jazz standards. For Bass Guitar w/CD
Includes: My Funny Valentine, Night and Day, How High the Moon, Emily, Gentle Rain, Green Dolphin St., Secret Love, Softly as in a Morning Sunrise, Summertime

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Dave Matthews - Some Devil (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is the lyrics and sheet music to Dave Matthews' solo album "Some Devil," so that you can learn to play the songs. It is not an autobiography.

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All the songs from Dave Matthews' solo recording debut: An' Another Thing * Baby * Dodo * Gravedigger * Grey Blue Eyes * Oh * Save Me * So Damn Lucky * Some Devil * Stay or Leave * Too High * Trouble * Up and Away.

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Jazz Guitar Harmony (Book & CD) Review

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(More customer reviews)Hi All.I highly recommend this book.It starts out with the basics and works you up to a pretty decent level for a single volume book.Well laid out and if you follow step by step, by the time you finish the book, you'll have a strong understandig of harmony, and a great mastery of the fretboard itself.So far, I have found all of Jody Fisher's book to be great.

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This comprehensive study of harmony is a must for any guitarist interested in jazz. This book explains the essentials of jazz harmony in a friendly, easy-to-understand manner. Learn about chord scales, abbreviated voicings, extended harmonies, altered chords, substitutions and analyzing chord progressions. Other topics include ii-V-I progressions, the dominant cycle, ""rhythm changes,"" clusters, quartal harmonies, working with upper structures and much more. Finally, jazz harmony is demystified in one reliable and easy-to-read book.

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How They Made It: True Stories of How Music's Biggest Stars Went from Start to Stardom (Book) Review

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(More customer reviews)Singing, be it pop, classical, opera, Broadway, is a hard way to make a living. I've often compared it to the NBA or the NFL. You take a kid. He/She is the best they have in high school. Off to college, and all of a sudden there's a bunch, a whole bunch, of kids that were the best they had in high school. Only a few are going to be the best in college. Then it's to the real world. There's a bunch of the best in college. The pros, sports or music, only take a few.

From then on it's talent, luck, and a whole bunch of drive and dedication. You have to be careful to mix work (more work than you can imagine), love, family. You have to find the right spouse who shares your dream, or you wind up with a lot of divorces.

As my daughter Victoria Matlock (currently on tour with the musical WICKED) says, 'It's not something you want to do, it's something you have to do.'

And somewhere along the way you need a break. Something's got to separate you from the other hundreds of players. This book tells what happened to get the careers of forty one music acts rolling.

Good Luck!

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Everyone comes from somewhere: How They Made It is a savvy insider's tale that traces the career trajectories of a cross section of top selling recording artists, puncturing the mythologies of the music business to reveal the truths within. Hard work and persistence are the common themes, dispelling the notion of "overnight success." Artists covered include Jim Brickman, Green Day, Norah Jones, Maroon5, John Mayer, Alanis Morissette, OutKast, Rufus Wainright and Lee Ann Womack.

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Hot Burritos: The True Story of The Flying Burrito Brothers Review

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(More customer reviews)I first become a fan of the Flying Burrito Brothers in 1972. Prior to that, like most rock music listeners, I wouldn't have been caught dead with a Merle Haggard or bluegrass record. But Chris Hillman, Gram Parsons, and company opened up my mind to the beauty and joy of country music.

I've witnessed the gradual elevation of former-Burrito, Gram Parsons, to immortal status over the last thirty-five years. In `Hot Burritos,' John Einarson with FBB co-founder, Chris Hillman, debunk the Parsons legend with a hard-hitting history of the pioneering country-rock band that puts the contribution of each member in proper perspective.

Is Chris Hillman's criticism of Parsons motivated by jealousy? Parsons's flamboyant personality and self-inflicted early demise gave birth to a legend that continues to grow with each passing year while Hillman's unparalleled contributions to country-rock go largely unrecognized in comparison. There's no doubt that Gram Parsons had flashes of brilliance throughout his short career with the International Submarine Band, the Byrds, the Flying Burrito Brothers, and as a solo artist. Yet, he never had the discipline to realize the full extent of the gifts he was given. I agree with Hillman in that, although I tried and tried, I found nothing in Parsons's two solo albums to compare with his `Gilded Palace of Sin' songs except for `She.'

To serious Burrito fans, the slights to Hillman and the rest of the band members in the race to exploit the Parsons legend are glaring:

- Several books have been written about Parsons, but none about the Flying Burrito Brothers until now.

- The A&M 1976 release of "Sleepless Nights" is billed as Gram Parsons - The Flying Burrito Brothers with Gram solo on the cover.

- The A&M 1988 release of "The Best of the Flying Burrito Brothers: Farther Along" includes not one song from the post-Parsons Burritos. The 'blue' album and the live "Last of the Red Hot Burritos" had a lot of great stuff, most of it better than the songs from `Burrito Deluxe.'

- The A&M 2001 "20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of the Flying Burrito Brothers" includes no songs from the post-Parsons Burritos.

The Amoeba Record's 2007 "Gram Parsons With The Flying Burrito Brothers: Live At The Avalon Ballroom, 1969" gives Parsons headline billing and features a solo Gram on the cover.

`Hot Burritos' does much more than just put Parsons's contributions in their rightful perspective. The origins of the band and its ultimate ending are dealt with nicely. Each of the four albums is critiqued and there's a wealth of interesting information coming from first-hand interviews with former Burritos and associates. Similar to his other books I've bought, "Desperados: The Roots Of Country Rock," "Mr. Tambourine Man: The Life and Legacy of the Byrds' Gene Clark," and "There's Something Happening Here: The Story Of Buffalo Springfield," Einarson uses a plethora of primary sources to give a factual account of the Burritos. Chris Hillman gives the reader information about the band that simply could not be found elsewhere.

Sadly, the Flying Burrito Brothers never found their niche while the band existed. However, to their everlasting credit, they've been turning on countless people to the beauty of country music through their recordings for the last forty years. Thanks for the music, Chris, from the Byrds, Burritos, Manassas, Souther, Hillman, and Furay, Desert Rose Band, and the solo albums. Thanks especially for turning me on to bluegrass. And thanks for the great Gospel tunes in your later albums.

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Widely regarded as the original country-rock band, The Flying Burrito Brothers were determined to pull rock music back from the psychedelic abyss and return it to its pure and simple roots. To say that they succeeded would be an understatement. In a brief four-year span, the original troupe became one of the most influential rock groups of all time, reaching everyone from the Eagles and Jackson Browne to Uncle Tupelo and Alan Jackson. Hot Burritos is the colorful, hard-hitting, insightful, and deeply personal account of this maverick band, as told by founder Chris Hillman and other group members and associates. It shatters common myths about the group, taking readers for the first time inside the Parsons-Hillman partnership, their notoriously extravagant 1969 train trip tour, the doomed Altamont Festival, the Rolling Stones' inner circle, the discovery of Emmylou Harris, Parsons' overindulgence and ultimate dismissal, and the legacy the group, and the enigmatic Parsons, left behind.

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The Best of John Prine for Guitar: Includes Super-Tab Notation (The Best of... for Guitar Series) Review

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(More customer reviews)Neither the tab not the musical notation has anything to do with John's guitar playing on these songs; only the single note renditions of his vocals.
There are chord diagrams for each song that are relatively accurate, but they are not always in the key in which the songs were recorded.
If you imagined you were going to get some insight into John's fingerstyle approach you are very much mistaken.

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Angels from Montgomery * Six O'Clock News * Spanish Pipedream * Hello in There * Illegal Smile * Pretty Good * Far from Me * Quiet Man.

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Patty Griffin Guitar Collection (Guitar Recorded Version) Review

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(More customer reviews)I just recently bought this book and I love it! It is a must have for any Patty Griffin fan, if you play the guitar or not. It's got a great biography of her with some nice pictures and the the chords and the notes for her songs are very accurate. It's a really nice book!

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Note-for-note guitar transcriptions with tab for 16 songs from the rich repertoire of this popular and respected singer-songwriter. Includes: Be Careful * Blue Sky * Change * Chief * Goodbye * Let Him Fly * Long Ride Home * Mad Mission * Makin' Pies * Mary * Moses * One Big Love * Poor Man's House * Rain * Sweet Lorraine * and Tony, plus a biography and photos of Griffin.

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Now That I've Found You Review

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(More customer reviews)This is just what you want ... all the notes and all the words from all the songs, just as performed, nothing more and nothing less.Both tab and score.Buy that Martin guitar you've always wanted, tune it to the CD, andplay along like you're Ron Block! Great fun!

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The album-matching folio to bluegrass's breakthrough crossover release. Titles: Baby, Now That I've Found You * Broadway * Every Time You Say Goodbye * I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby * I Will * In the Palm of Your Hand * Oh, Atlanta * Sleep On * Teardrops Will Kiss the Morning Dew * Tonight I'll Be Lonely Too * When God Dips His Pen of Love in My Heart * When You Say Nothing at All.

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