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GuitarMedia Catalog

Visual composition and improvisation skills come to guitarists following our universal fretboard patterns. Just listen to step-by-step audio instructions at "band practice." You'll use our patterns to jam with virtual bands while attaining fretboard mastery. By visualizing our fretboard patterns while jamming, you will gradually acquire the ability to visualize the fretboard patterns for anything you hear.

PROGRAMS Heart of the Blues --ENTRY LEVEL Soul of the Blues --NOMINAL LEVEL Beyond the Blues --ADVANCED LEVEL MORE INFO   Entry-level covers foundation patterns, what we call the "Heart of the Blues." Nominal level reveals what Robert Johnson claimed the devil traded him at the crossroads, what we call the "Soul of the Blues." Advanced level goes "Beyond the Blues" to rock and jazz, then expert programs specialize your skills. EXPERT-LEVEL PROGRAMS: Soaring the Solo --LEAD GUITAR Walking the Rhythm --RHYTHM GUITAR Chording the Solo --CHORD SOLOS RHYTHM-TRACK PROGRAM: Jam Mixes --ROLL-YOUR-OWN-SONGS FREE TRIAL

Color-coded fretboards enable easy composition and improvisation while fill-in-the-blank worksheets enable you to notate your compositions so others can learn them. Rhythmic guitar tablature and traditional sheet music is also provided alongside color-coded fretboards so you don't need to read music, but can if you do.

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JAM MIXES Jam with the Band in Any Key 12 Volume Set

(what you get) Jam away night or day--now you have a back-up band anywhere you have a CD player (or a computer for the CD-ROM version). Each Master Series volume has 12 Jam Mix bass-drums/only tracks in a single musical key plus the instruction booklet shows you evey fretboard position for that musical key. Use jam mies for practicing, as backing tracks for your own songs, or just for jamming away jammers. Improvise killer new solos using licks from our other programs, or just blast away with your current arsenal. (index) (more info)

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HEART OF THE BLUES The Foundation: Essential Patterns Six Volume Set

(what you get) (what you get) The Heart of the Blues lays a secure foundation in the pattern that you will use every time you play. All the greatest players began with this foundation pattern and the Heart of the Blues shows you how to use it to add your own personal solos to any rock, blues or jazz song.  (index) (more info)

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SOUL OF THE BLUES The Bridge: To Fretboard Mastery Six Volume Set

(what you get) The Soul of the Blues completes your lick repertoire by adding the "major" blues sound made famous by Delta bluesmen like Robert Johnson, but alive today in the music of Jonny Lang, B.B. King, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Jimi Hendrix and countless other greats. The major blues sound adds the third, sixth, seventh and ninth notes (that's G#, C#, D# and F# in the key of E) that are left out by blues players who only know the minor blues scale, that is E, G, A, Bb, B and D. When you cop the tact of virtuoso blues players and combine the major blues notes with the minor blues notes, you adapt each of your licks to the harmony of the changing chords. You can accumulate this ability from the Soul of the Blues series. (index) (more info)

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BEYOND THE BLUES Moving the Blues into Rock and Jazz 12 Volume Set

The Beyond the Blues series vaults your lick repertoire into the realm of 12-tone harmonies, using all 12 notes in every song--from slow blues to shuffles to jazzy ii-V harmonies. The sheet music features international graphics with 17 different charts. Each volume features 15 audio tracks for the lick, a song based on the lick, the guitar part alone and 12 Jam Mix bass/drums-only rhythm tracks, one in each musical key for practicing the lick or just for jamming. Sheet music uses easier-to-read rhythmic guitar tablature (TAB) plus 16 new "international" graphics: a chord chart (thumbnail showing the song at-a-glance) and 15 color-coded fretboards in all playing positions. You can accumulate the ability to "visualize" improvising, transposing and following-the-changes from the Beyond of the Blues series. (index) (more info)

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CHORDING THE SOLO Playing and Composing Chord Solos 12 Volume Set

The Chording the Solo series widens your lick repertoire into the realm of chord solos. From a relatively small number of easy-to-play chords in all 12 keys, Chording the Solo creates melodic chord progressions. The chord solos in the series illustrates how to craft chord melodies that follow-the-changes and yet have a melody on the top string. Besides the sheet music and TAB with chord frames, a song-style chord chart is also provided to show the whole song at-a-glance, including its tempo, chord changes bar-by-bar with degrees in key, plus example chords with their fretboard fingerings. Each volume features 15 audio tracks for the chord solo, a song using on the chord solo, the guitar part alone and 12 Jam Mix bass/drums-only rhythm tracks, one in each musical key for practicing the chord solo or just for jamming. Sheet music uses easier-to-read rhythmic guitar tablature (TAB) plus 16 new "international" graphics: a chord chart and 15 color-coded fretboards in all playing positions. You can dazzle and delight listeners by copping a chord solo from the Chording the Solo series. (index) (more info)

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WALKING THE RHYTHM Playing and Composing Walking Bass for Rhythm Guitar 12 Volume Set

The Walking the Rhythm series illustrates "walking rhythm guitar"--that is, how to seamlessly meld a walking bass line with punctuating chords. Walking rhythm guitar is the ultimate accompanyist tool for guitarists, since it allows you to fill-in for both bass and rhythm sections, like a pianist playing bass lines and chords. In essence, a walking rhythm guitar part divides up the beats so that the guitarist can play a bass line simultaneously with rhythmic chord punches (arranged by making the lowest note in each chord match the bass line). Besides the sheet music and TAB with chord frames, a song-style chord chart is also provided to show the whole song at-a-glance, including its tempo, chord changes bar-by-bar with degrees in key, plus example chords with their fretboard fingerings. Each volume features 15 audio tracks for the walking rhythm part, a song using on the walking rhythm part, the guitar part alone and 12 Jam Mix bass/drums-only rhythm tracks, one in each musical key for practicing or just for jamming. Sheet music uses easier-to-read rhythmic guitar tablature (TAB) plus 16 new "international" graphics: a chord chart and 15 color-coded fretboards in all playing positions. Instead of just strumming chords, you can sound like a whole band--bass and rhythm--when you accompany a soloist with a walking rhythm part from the Walking the Rhythm series. (index) (more info)

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SOARING THE SOLO Playing, Composing and Improvising on Lead Guitar 12 Volume Set

The Soaring the Solo series exalts your lick repertoire with 144 bars of soaring solos inside the booklets of six volumes. Soaring the Solo enables budding lead guitarists to easily cop these new licks from rhythmic guitar tablature (TAB), along with traditional musical notation. Each volume has 15 tracks, including a separate studio track with just the lead part, a track with just the guitar part by itself, a song based on the lick, and 12 Jam Mix bass-drums/only tracks for practicing the licks in any musical key, or just for jamming. You can cop these killer leads and have a ready arsenal of soaring solos from the Soaring the Solo series. (index) (more info)

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