A Modern Method For Guitar - Jazz Songbook, Vol. 1
Product Description
Play great jazz while you learn from this revered guitar method! These solos and duets map directly to the lessons in William Leavitt's Modern Method for Guitar, Volume 1, the basic guitar text at Berklee College of Music. Sincethe 1960s, the Modern Method for Guitar series has been one of world's most popular guitar methods, translated into Spanish, French, and Japanese, and selling over half a million copies. Carefully overseen by Larry Baione, chairof Berklee's Guitar Department (and a former student of William Leavitt), these arrangements are crafted to Leavitt's time-proven approach, giving you the chance to apply what you learn to music by Miles Davis, Duke Ellington,Sonny Rollins, Django Reinhardt, and other jazz greats. The accompanying audio demonstrates all the tunes and offers play-along tracks for practicing the duets. Songs include: Afternoon in Paris · Basin Street Blues · A Child IsBorn · Daphne · Here's That Rainy Day · In a Sentimental Mood · My Little Suede Shoes · St. Thomas · Samba De Orfeu · So What · Swing 42 · Valse Hot · The Very Thought of You · When I Fall in Love · Willow Weep for Me. The audioexamples are accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be downloaded or streamed according to personal preference. The files also include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow downaudio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
Series: Hal Leonard Guitar Method
Genre: Method
Language: English
Pages: 32
Publisher: Berklee Press Publications
First published: 2009
ISBN: 9780876390733
Contents/Songlist
1) Afternoon In Paris
2) So What
3) A Child Is Born
4) Basin Street Blues
5) Here’s That Rainy Day
6) In A Sentimental Mood
7) My Little Suede Shoes
8) Samba De Orfeu
9) St. Thomas
10) Valse Hot
11) The Very Thought Of You
12) When I Fall In Love
13) Willow Weep For Me
14) Daphne
15) Swing 42