Solo Guitar is a musical approach to understand the techniques and concepts of solo guitar. Topics include arranging, transcribing, chord progressions, and chord substitutions. Also included are tips for maximizing practice time. Howard demonstrates every subject with arrangements of some of the most memorable songs of any serious musician's repertoire. Titles: * In Your Own Sweet Way * You Stepped Out of a Dream * Stompin' at the Savoy * Misty * Laura * Take Five and more.
Beginning with an explanation of how a bass line defines the harmonic scheme, this edition leads the player through dozens of fingerstyle arrangements.
In this definitive work, Howard Morgen demonstrates all the tools, techniques, and concepts to create masterful solo guitar arrangements.
Solo guitar techniques such as contrapuntal motion, "harp" harmonics, substitution and embellishment.
Fingerstyle jazz interpretations of ten of your favorite Christmas carols by Guitar Player fingerstyle columnist, performer, and clinician Howard Morgen. In notation and tablature.
An excellent introduction to the art of solo guitar playing.
Joe Diorio constructs 16 modern and ultra-modern jazz guitar solos over eight classic jazz chord progressions.
(Guitar Book). Sixteen classic Gershwin standards in sophisticated solo guitar arrangements exactly as recorded by Howard Morgen.
" Jody Fisher's Jazz Guitar Chord/Melody Course is a must-have for any serious jazz guitarist.
Designed for the serious fingerstyle guitar student, this book presents rhythm patterns in a wide range of moods written in standard notation and tablature, along with new concepts about blues and jazz.
This is Mel Bay's landmark system for playing guitar solos in chord style using popular sheet music.