Gig Savers: Chord Substitutions MB20031 $2.95

This text presents the most common chord substitutions in a way that makes them easy to learn and transpose into all twelve keys. Topics include chord embellishment, chord alteration, iii for I subs, vi for I subs, ii for V subs, tritone substitution and many other tricks for spicing up chord progressions.

Gig Savers: Blues Changes MB20030 $2.95

The blues is one of the most played styles and forms of music. This booklet presents alternate changes and many chord substitutions for the blues in a way that allows them to be transposed into any key.

Gig Savers: Intro to Jazz Lines MB99534 $2.95

Many of the essential concepts of jazz soloing are presented here in an easy to understand fashion. Chapters on Digital Patterns, Guide Tones, and Targeting will get just about any guitarist soloing with the jazz language. All examples are presented with fretboard diagrams, standard notation, and tab.

Essential Jazz Etudes...The Blues for Guitar MB99575BCD $14.95

This collection of jazz etudes with accompanying CD gives students a fun and effective way to learn to play jazz style blues lines. The CD tracks provide a professional rhythm section (piano, bass, drums) to play along with, plus recordings of professional jazz musicians playing each etude. The recordings help to provide a model for the student's stylistic development, and an opportunity to play with a great band! Each of the 12 etudes provides a new challenge to master.

Walking Bass Lines for Guitar MB99406BCD $17.95

This book and CD teaches excellent techniques to use for walking bass lines on guitar when playing in a duet format, either with another guitar player or with a singer or other instrumentalists. The idea of this book is to give a few answers to the question, "How do I harmonize walking bass lines when I've never done it before?". We will take the principal chords, major 7, 6, dominant 7, minor, diminished, and minor 7 flat 5 and walk bass lines on the sixth or fifth string. Written in notation and tablature.

Rhythm Changes Volume 1 MB99319BCD $17.95

The Frank Vignola Play-Along Series contains solos which have been written and recorded over blues and rhythm changes in many different keys. Learn more about commonly used chord changes by having the opportunity to jam on them extensively. Some of these etudes have been recorded both at a slower tempo for learning and at performance tempo. The performance-tempo recordings of the solos include numerous choruses of rhythm section only. This allows for individual practice of the written solos or practice of original ideas with a "live" rhythm section. Occasionally, during these "rhythm only" sections, Frank Vignola will play an improvised solo for four, 12, or 24 measures. This allows the student to interact with the recording by copying ideas, building upon what has just been played, or practicing the chords to the piece. The Frank Vignola Blues and Rhythm Changes series gives any student of jazz guitar great ideas for playing solos over two of the most popular musical forms in jazz.