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Sher Music Co.'s highly-regarded book, The Blues Scales: Essential Tools for Jazz Improvisation is now available in bass clef. As Michael Brecker said, This is an excellent addition to the growing number of books dedicated to mastering the art of jazz improvisation. Useful to beginners as well as advanced players, The Blues Scales admirably addresses the vocabulary of the blues - the 'root of jazz.' Step-by-step exercises to get beginning students able to quickly solo using the two basic Blues Scales. Extensive dictionary of classic Major and Minor Blues Scale phrases. Help with transposing the ideas learned into other keys. Numerous ways to expand the Blues Scales to make them even more useful. Appendices for advanced players showing how the masters of jazz use the Blues Scales in their own playing.

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The most comprehensive book ever written on Latin jazz guitar playing - from its roots in Afro-Cuban music to the great contemporary masters! Traditional lines from the Tres, cuatro and requinto adapted to the guitar in the style of Arsenio Rodriguez, Yomo Toro, El Güero Gil, etc. Piano adaptations and solutions for the guitar patterned after Bebo Valdes, Clare Fischer, Eddie Palmieri, etc. Step-by-step instruction on how to play guajeos, montunos and other Afro-Cuban styles on guitar Transcription and analysis of key guitarists, composers and arrangers such as George Benson, Chico O'Farrill, Clare Fischer, Stan Appelbaum, Cal Tjader and La Playa sextet Stylistic analysis of highly infl uential guitarists such as Juanito Marquez, Paul Alicea, Sonny Henry, Edgardo Miranda, Carlos Emilio Morales, Bobby Redfield, Carlos Santana and Steve Khan. Transcriptions and analysis of jazz guitar greats playing Latin music, like Wes Montgom

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