Five by five

Using instructional text and actual songs, author Kenny Sultan covers blues in five different keys and positions and shows how they can be adapted to any key. Along with the basic blues rhythms and leads, fingerstyle blues is covered, using both an alternating and monotone bass. Sultan also touches on the specific techniques of various well-known players, open tuning, and bottleneck guitar. The accompanying CD includes each example and every song, most of which are played both in slow speed and at regular tempo.

Learn and explore the music of one of the most respected and pioneering jazz guitar players of our time. This book/CD pack provides a hands-on analysis of 13 great performances: Affirmation • Billie's Bounce (Bill's Bounce) • Body Talk • The Borgia Stick • Breezin' • C-Smooth • Clockwise • The Cooker • Easy Living • So What • Stormy Weather • Take Five • This Masquerade. The CD includes full-band examples of all the exercises.

This book/CD pack explores all the main components necessary for crafting well-balanced rhythmic and melodic phrases. It also explains how these phrases are put together to form cohesive solos. Many styles are covered - rock, blues, jazz, fusion, country, Latin, funk and more - and all of the concepts are backed up with musical examples. The 50 ideas are divided into five main sections: The Basics - covers fundamental but all too often forgotten techniques, such as slurs and vibrato, that can breathe new life into your phrases; Melodic Concepts - explores various aspects of melodic phrasing, such as motifs, chromaticism and sequences; Harmonic Embellishments - discusses the melodic potential of harmonic intervals (dyads), chords and chord partials; Rhythmic Concepts - explores various aspects of rhythmic phrasing, such as accents, free-time phrasing and metric modulation, and how it pertains to melodic soloing; Solo Structure - all of the topics discussed in the book come together to help form the big picture. The companion CD contains 89 demos for listening, and most tracks feature full-band backing. Also available for keyboard, tenor saxophone and trumpet.

32 blues classics authentically transcribed note-for-note for guitar: Ain't No Sunshine • Baby, Let's Play House • Darlin' You Know I Love You • Five Long Years • The Hucklebuck • I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man • It Hurts Me Too • Kind Hearted Woman Blues • Mustang Sally • My Babe • Rock Me Baby • Rollin' and Tumblin' • The Seventh Son • (They Call It) Stormy Monday • The Thrill Is Gone • Tuff Enuff • and many more.

60 essential riffs from some of the greatest acoustic guitar moments of all time. Includes: Angie • Annie's Song • Bus Stop • Change the World • Crash into Me • Dust in the Wind • Fire and Rain • Free Fallin' • Heaven Beside You • Here Comes the Sun • Hold My Hand • Iris • Landslide • Leader of the Band • Loser • Maggie May • Melissa • More Than Words • Name • Silent Lucidity • Wonderwall• You Were Meant for Me • and more.