This is Mel Bay's landmark system for playing guitar solos in chord style using popular sheet music. This method is accessible to the intermediate level student and is applicable for pick or fingerstyle performance. In notation and tablature.

Commonly referred to as the rhythm guitarist's bible, this innovative book is a system of guitar chord formation which maximizes power voicing while minimizing left-hand movement! Originally written by Mel Bay in 1947, this landmark publication was reissued in its original typesetting in 1973 to become the definitive text on jazz chords in private teaching studios and university jazz guitar departments around the globe. Mr. Bay's practical, analytical approach to the fingerboard produced this comprehensive system for learning full-sounding orchestral jazz guitar chords.

If you've heard jazz guitarists like Joe Pass play chord melody, you may think that the style requires an encyclopedic knowledge of music theory, musical super- powers, or making a deal with the devil. But fear not! This book will show youhow to create your own satisfying chord melody arrangements on the mandolin...and will do so in a practical, applicable, non stroke-inducing way

For plectrum or five-string banjo (C tuning), this text is the famed Mel Bay system for melody chord performance. In standard notation and tablature.

"How can I read sheet music and play tenor banjo melody chord solos?" Mel Bay's own step-by-step method for melody chord performance will show you precisely how it's done. Also suitable for tenor mandola. Written primarily in standard notation with tablature and fretboard diagrams given for chord patterns, this book might be considered a sequel to the Complete Tenor Banjo Method. After a few pages of elementary information, the author goes to the heart of the matter with challenging exercises and solos presented in order of difficulty in various keys. the book also includes a thorough education in chord construction from simple triads to thirteenth diminished ninth chords. Most importantly, the author offers a system for learning to apply tenor banjo chords in a creative manner.

(Musicians Institute Press). The essential guide to jazz chord voicings and substitutions, complete with a color-coded method for over 500 essential voicings. Players will understand chord functions and their harmonic possibilities better than ever before, as well as inversions, extensions, alterations, and substitutions. Players will also be able to increase their harmonic vocabulary for accompaniment, composing and chord-melody playing.

(Guitar Collection). 15 great songs, including: Autumn in New York * Cheek to Cheek * Easy Living * Georgia on My Mind * The Girl from Ipanema * Have You Met Miss Jones? * Isn't It Romantic? * Stella by Starlight * The Way You Look Tonight * When I Fall in Love * When Sunny Gets Blue * more.