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Veteran songwriter Pat Pattison has taught many of Berklee College of Music's best and brightest students how to write truly great lyrics. Her helpful guide contains essential information on lyric str...

Learn to play the blues in several styles - jazz, Latin, fusion, rock and funk - in all keys with step-by-step instructions, practice tips and a play-along Online Audio. Even if you are a complete beg...

Many famous musicians have learned to develop their own unique jazz style using Berklee Professor Emeritus John LaPorta's techniques. First published in 1968 and now thoroughly updated and revised, hi...

Use jazz to develop children's creativity! This book is a collection of 60 jazz-based teaching strategies designed to foster music making, creative movement, and improvisation in the K-5 music classro...

Play and improvise with more expression and freedom in bluegrass and related styles. These ideas, exercises and etudes will help you expand your palette of improvisational and compositional techniques...

Play jazz ukulele! Learn the essential theory, concepts, and techniques to perform jazz. This book will help you to understand and play jazz harmonies and tension substitutions, and the principles for...

Learn to play with jazz phrasing and articulation. These 27 duets are in jazz and jazz-influenced styles such as swing, bebop, funk, samba, and others. They are appropriate for performance by any melo...

Advance your creativity and command of the drum set. Phrasing will help you expand your vocabulary by using standard rudiments and exciting rhythmic concepts, making your playing more conversational,...

Learn the techniques that have made Kenwood Dennard one of the most in-demand drummers around. Sharing knowledge gained from playing with Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Jaco Pastorius, Sting and other...

Bring new colors and voicings to your guitar playing. Berklee Professor of Guitar Rick Peckham unlocks the mysteries of modal tonality, with a series of exercises and demonstrations that will expand y...

Learn how to lock into an airtight groove with Berklee professor and versatile bassman Danny Morris. In this Master Class, Morris teaches techniques to help you anchor your band with a foundation of s...

The world-famous method, in a French edition.

Now guitarists can have all three volumes of this classic guitar method in one convenient book! Created by popular demand, this new edition of the method used as the basic text for the renowned Berkle...

This practical, comprehensive method is used as the basic text for the guitar program at the Berklee College of Music. Volume One builds a solid foundation for beginning guitarists and features a comp...

French edition of the best-selling guitar method.

Learn some of Berklee's favorite, most popular guitar music. This collection includes some of the most popular songs and repertoire taught by the Berklee Guitar Department faculty. The music is taught...

Learn twelve classic bebop guitar solos from six of the greatest bebop artists. Each solo includes a technical introduction with analytical insights and references to its classic recording.

Learn the essential techniques for playing classical guitar. These exercises and demonstrations will help you to develop ease of motion, efficiency, coordination, tone, control over dynamics and color...

Learn how triads are key to understanding harmony, soloing, and comping. Triads are the basis of all harmony. By understanding how they relate to larger chord structures, you will improve your command...

Methode für das Zusammenspiel in einer Band: 8 Stücke in den Stilen Rock, Blues, Swing, Funk, Latin, u. a. , werden anhand vieler Übungen erarbeitet. Ideal für den Gitarren- oder Ensembleunterricht mi...

Essential for anyone interested in the business, process and procedures of writing music for film or television, this book teaches the Berklee approach to the art, covering topics such as: preparing a...

Learn to play ukulele solo! This book will help you arrange and perform ukulele pieces unaccompanied. You will learn essential ukulele techniques to capture the instrument's unique sonority and charac...

Learn the ukulele! Berklee Basic Ukulele is an easy-to-follow, funintroduction to the ukulele--the perfect guide for the beginning ukulele enthusiast! The book begins with the basics of reading music...

Improvise with more expression and freedom in bluegrass and related styles. These ideas, exercises, and etudes will help you expand your palette of improvisational techniques and sounds. Develop your...