Insight

More than a method or exercise book, this guide challenges jazz guitarists to increase originality in their thinking and playing. Master player Larry Coryell takes readers deep inside the music to make connections between ideas and the guitar fretboard, helping them unlock their own creativity. This book/CD set builds logically from basic ideas to more advanced techniques, which Coryell explains in fine detail. He highlights musical ways to understand complex jazz concepts and presents his unique approach to improvisation by providing exciting new ways to play scales, intervals, arpeggios, melody and chords. Emphasizing group interaction and solos that sizzle, Coryell taps his decades of experience as a performer to offer insights into inventive, powerful ensemble playing. This book should open the door to a better understanding in our quest for advanced guitar playing. - Al DiMeola

Take a journey inside the blues with Dave Rubin's latest book, Rockin' the Blues: 1963-1973. This seminal 10 years produced some of the most influential blues-rock guitarists of all time. Learn about the lives of these trail-blazing guitarists, their individual styles, accomplishments, and techniques, then play along with the accompanying CD and taste the magic yourself. Each chapter delves into the world of a key blues-rock guitarist from this period, with rare photos, historic insights, interviews, and guitar solos written in standard notation and tablature and performed by a full band on the included audio CD. Explore this exciting time in music history with a book that covers it like no other. Artists covered include: Duane Allman, Jeff Beck, Roy Buchanan, Eric Clapton, Alvin Lee, Keith Richards, Robbie Robertson, and others.