A Modern Method for Guitar - Volume 1 (Music Instruction)

A Modern Method for Guitar - Volume 1 (Music Instruction)
Author: William Leavitt
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 197
Release: 1995-08-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1480344540

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(Guitar Method). This practical, comprehensive method is used as the basic text for the guitar program at the Berklee College of Music. Volume One builds a solid foundation for beginning guitarists and features a comprehensive range of guitar and music fundamentals, including: scales, melodic studies, chord and arpeggio studies, how to read music, special exercises for developing technique in both hands, voice leading using moveable chord forms, and more.

A Modern Method Guitar

A Modern Method Guitar
Author: William Leavitt
Publisher: Berklee Press Publications
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2020
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780876391990

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(Berklee Methods). The William Leavitt Modern Method for Guitar, used as the basic text for the Berklee College of Music guitar program, has stood the test of time and earned a vast and loyal following of dedicated guitar students and instructors. By popular demand, Berklee Press has created a compilation of the original volumes 1, 2, and 3, including all audio and video tracks. Now, serious guitar students and instructors, from beginning through advanced, have the convenience of progressing through all three volumes of this classic guitar method in one comprehensive book. Innovative solos, duets, and exercises progressively teach melody, harmony, and rhythm. This edition contains audio and video produced by William Leavitt's students Charles Chapman and Larry Baione (who was his successor as chair of the Berklee Guitar Department), demonstrating the examples and providing play-along tracks for the ensemble exercises.

The Berklee Book of Jazz Harmony

The Berklee Book of Jazz Harmony
Author: Joe Mulholland
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2013-08-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1480360856

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(Berklee Guide). Learn jazz harmony, as taught at Berklee College of Music. This text provides a strong foundation in harmonic principles, supporting further study in jazz composition, arranging, and improvisation. It covers basic chord types and their tensions, with practical demonstrations of how they are used in characteristic jazz contexts and an accompanying recording that lets you hear how they can be applied.

Berklee Music Theory

Berklee Music Theory
Author: Paul Schmeling
Publisher: Berklee Press Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780876391105

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Teaches the concepts of music theory based on the curriculum at Berklee College of Music.

A Modern Method for Guitar Scales

A Modern Method for Guitar Scales
Author: Larry Baione
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2018-04-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1540030342

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(Berklee Guide). Improve your command of the guitar by mastering the essential scales and their fingerings. This reference will help you play scales up, down and across the fingerboard, in all keys. You will learn multiple scale fingering options to suit different musical contexts. Practice exercises will help you build your muscle memory as you play different fingering patterns across the strings, and then expand them to three octaves. Graphical illustrations, exercises, and etudes will help reinforce all the most useful scale types. Traditional notation and tablature are included.

Berklee Basic Guitar - Phase 1

Berklee Basic Guitar - Phase 1
Author: William Leavitt
Publisher: Berklee Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1986-11
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780634013331

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"An essential resource for every beginning guitar student. This modern instructional method is designed for individual study or a classroom environment. Guitar technique and reading skills are developed through two-, three-, and four-part ensemble arrangements of both traditional and newly-composed music. To round out your training there is also an introduction to chord playing. 'Berklee Basic Guitar' is THE way to learn guitar. Guitar players quickly advance with the essential tools provided here." -- page 4 of cover.

Beginning Ear Training

Beginning Ear Training
Author: Gilson Schachnik
Publisher: Ear Training: Exercises
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780876390818

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(Berklee Guide). These time-tested exercises will help you to play by ear. This book with online audio recordings introduces the core skills of ear training. Step by step, you will learn to use solfege to help you internalize the music you hear and then easily transpose melodies to different keys. Learn to hear a melody and then write it down. Develop your memory for melodies and rhythms. Transcribe live performances and recordings. Listening is the most important skill in music, and this book will help you to listen better. Gilson Schachnik teaches ear training at Berklee College of Music. He is an active keyboardist, composer, and arranger, and has performed with Claudio Roditti, Mick Goodrick, Bill Pierce, and Antonio Sanchez. The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.

Piano Essentials

Piano Essentials
Author: Ross Ramsay
Publisher: Berklee PressPublications
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2005-08
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780876390498

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(Berklee Press). Learn piano basics, as required of every piano major at Berklee College of Music. The exercises featured in this book will help you improve your sight-reading skills, and memorize new material in less time and with more confidence. Scales, chords, arpeggios, and cadences will improve your tone, dynamic range, and sense of rhythm. You will become more comfortable with fingerings, develop speed and agility on the keyboard, and will build a foundation for further study.

Berklee Instant Keyboard

Berklee Instant Keyboard
Author: Paul Schmeling
Publisher: Berklee PressPublications
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780634031410

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(Berklee Methods). This cool new keyboard method will have students of all ages jammin' right away! It features simple lessons to get you playing instantly, tips on playing and locking in with a bass player and rhythm section, and strategies to help you understand the keyboard and develop your own keyboard parts. Jam with the band in a variety of musical styles including rock, blues, country and funk on the accompanying CD.

Reading studies for guitar

Reading studies for guitar
Author: William Leavitt
Publisher: Berklee Press Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1979
Genre: Guitar
ISBN: 9780634013355

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(Guitar Solo). A comprehensive collection of studies for beginners to improve their reading and technical ability. Covers: positions 1 through 7 in all keys while introducing scales, arpeggios, written-out chords, and a variety of rhythms and time signatures.