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Learn How To Craft Memorable Bluegrass Solos Most bluegrass songs share similar 4-bar chord progressions for the first half, second half, or even both halves of the song. Learning a vocabulary of 4-bar phrases that work over these common 4-bar progressions is the key to learning how to create your own bluegrass solos and improvisations, and the key to learning this versatile vocabulary is Stephen Mougin's Bluegrass edition of Solo Factory.

40 Creative Concepts for Soloing and Improvisation in Any Style The biggest roadblock players face when learning how to solo and improvise is understanding how to connect the dots between the scales, arpeggios and licks they've learned and then craft the expressive musical ideas they hear in their head. How does that magic happen?

Learn and Practice 8 Blues Bending Techniques with Interactive Practice Sessions String Bending is one of the most expressive and essential highly personal techniques for guitarists. Kid Andersen's Blues Bending edition of Practice Sessions focuses on 8 key bending techniques: shake bends, super wide bends, double stop bends, Faux horn section bends, slippery bends, Steel guitar double stop bends, and Kid's own signature “slide without a slide” bends.

Learn Signature Techniques of Rock & Funk Guitar Legends Every musician has a long list of other musicians, past and present, that have inspired, influenced and helped shape their own sound and musicality. It's the natural evolution of music. We asked Chris Buono to pass on to you some of the key learnings that his Guitar Heroes passed on to him.

Learn and Practice Melodic Soloing with Interactive Practice Sessions At some point or another, all improvising guitar players find themselves in the proverbial rut; tired of hearing themselves playing the same go-to licks and scale runs in the same old go-to positions on the neck. Sound familiar?

Learn How to Dial In 10 Versatile and Distinctive Guitar Tones Welcome to the UAFX Pedals Playbook curated by TrueFire and presented by Corey Congilio and James Santiago.

Learn How to Craft Rhythm Guitar Parts and Melodic Solos on the Fly Finding your part in any size band, especially in large ensembles, is one of the most important skills that a guitarist needs command of - particularly when improvising in a jazz, funk or blues band setting.

Learn How To Play 30 Slap Bass Grooves In Stu Hamm’s top-ranked Slap Bass edition of STU U, you dug deep into the essential thumb skills and underlying rhythmic and percussive qualities that are so important when playing Slap Bass.

Learn Signature Techniques of Classical & Fingerstyle Guitar Legends Every musician has a long list of other musicians, past and present, that have inspired, influenced and helped shape their own sound and musicality. It's the natural evolution of music. We asked Muriel Anderson to pass on to you some of the key learnings that her Guitar Heroes passed on to her.

Learn & Practice 8 Creative Soloing Approaches What makes one player’s solo distinctive from another is not just the note selection and technique -- it's also the player’s expressive use of dynamics.

Learn and Practice 8 Essential Hybrid Picking Techniques for Guitar Hybrid picking is the right-hand picking technique that allows guitar players to take ready advantage of using both pick and fingers at the same time for greater articulation, dynamics, and tonal control in both your lead and rhythm playing.

Are you one of the many musicians and producers who are doing more and more of their production in a home studio? Do you want more confidence in your mastering abilities, so that you can release your productions KNOWING that they’re up to industry standards?

Discover the magic of classical guitar with this fun and easy guide The perfect starting point to learning classical guitar, Classical Guitar For Dummies, walks you through the steps, techniques, and styles you'll need to finger-pick your way around some of the most beautiful songs ever written.

Inspire and involve your adolescent students in active music-making with this second edition of Engaging Musical Practices: A Sourcebook for Middle School General Music. A practical and accessible resource, fourteen chapters lay out pedagogically sound practices for preservice and inservice music teachers. Beginning with adolescent development, authors outline clear, pedagogical steps for the creation of an inclusive curriculum that is age-appropriate age-relevant, and standards-based.

Today's pianists are expected to play music of three centuries on a single instrument: Steinway's design from the late 1800s. Other types of pianos, such as Mozart's Walter or Chopin's Pleyel, are increasingly being copied or restored, but they are played almost exclusively by specialists in "Historical Performance." David Breitman has been introducing Oberlin Conservatory students to historical keyboards since 1991, and in this book he focuses on the music he cares about most deeply and the problems he has found most perplexing.