Even if you're a complete beginner, this easy-to-understand instructional guide will get you improvising in no time! Learn to improvise in jazz, Latin, fusion, blues and rock styles in all keys with s...
Become a more musical guitar player! This book will help you learn and use chords, scales, and other building blocks of music from a guitarist's perspective. It applies concepts of music theory direct...
Add unique saxophone sounds to your palette of colors! The saxophone is capable of a great range of sounds, from laughs and growls to multiphonics and percussion effects. This book shows you how to do...
A highly effective and comprehensive book for developing complete technical and musical skills on the saxophone. This Volume One Berklee Workshop features innovative exercises, solos and performance t...
This follow-up edition presents a continuation and expansion of the techniques presented in Scale Studies, with a special emphasis on chordal concepts. It includes innovative exercises and solos that...
Terri Lyne Carrington, Founder and Artistic Director of the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice, has curated a wide range of jazz compositions written by women composers, from obscure to popu...
Learn the essentials of accompanying soloists and playing in jazz ensembles. Comping is the practice of using chords to accompany a melody. Whether supporting a soloist, playing in an ensemble, or per...
Perform some of the best-known sax solos of all time! Playing these clearly rendered and meticulously detailed transcriptions will give you insight into the styles of sax greats such as Michael Brecke...
This chord dictionary from the assistant chair of Berklee's guitar department includes 100+ chord forms, from basic 7th chords to guide tone chords and triads over bass notes. It is organized to revea...
The purpose of this book is to explore the relationship between jazz harmony and improvisation by studying the vertical structures of chords and their function in a progression, and the horizontal or...
Once you've completed the studies and exercises in Volumes 1 and 2, this volume offers more advanced study of saxophone technique. An awareness of rhythmic notation and rhythmic interpretation are ess...
Learn to use and understand advanced jazz harmony! This book reveals the post-bop jazz innovations established by such iconic jazz artists as John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Clare Fischer, Herbie Hancoc...
Add dimension and interest to your music. This essential, core material is for anyone who arranges jazz standards or writes original jazz compositions. This book will help you craft melodies, counterm...
Create arrangements with texture and style with this complete guide to arranging for large horn sections! Now, for the first time, learn the same jazz ensemble arranging techniques taught by renowned...
Discover how to play in a rock band with this Berklee Practice Method book/CD pack! Lessons throughout the book guide you through technique that is specific to playing the saxophone in a contemporary...
A complete guide to playing and maintenance, this handbook offers essential information on all dimensions of the saxophone. It provides an overview of technique, such as breathing, fingerings, articul...
Expand the creative breadth of your soloing! The step-by-step exercises and explanations in this tried-&-true resource will help you develop your ear and improve your technique. You'll learn the intim...
Take your hard rock chops into the stratosphere with Berklee professor and world-renowned guitarist Joe Shred Lord Stump. In this master class DVD, Stump breaks down his disciplined approach to scale...
Master harmony on the violin fingerboard! This book will give you the fluency to improvise, play comping (accompanying) parts, add background lines, and deepen your enjoyment of all kinds of music. Th...
Impara l'ukulele! Berklee Basic Ukulele è un'introduzione divertente e facile da seguire all'ukulele, la guida perfetta per chi è alle prime armi con l'ukulele! Il libro inizia con le basi della lettu...
Play jazz piano with new facility and expression as Ray Santisi, one of the most revered educators at the Berklee College of Music - and mentor to Keith Jarrett, Diana Krall, Joe Zawinul, and thousand...
Learn piano basics, as required of every piano major at Berklee College of Music. The exercises featured in this book will help you improve your sight-reading skills, and memorize new material in less...
Add unique trumpet sounds to your palette of colors. The trumpet is capable of a great range of sounds, from half-valve and growls effects to percussion sounds and mutes. This book shows you how to pe...
Sviluppate la padronanza e il controllo della tastiera della viola, in tutte le tonalità. Che si tratti di musica classica, jazz, fiddle o altri stili, queste strategie del XXI secolo possono migliora...
Get your band together! The Berklee Practice Method is the first-ever method that teaches you to play in a rock band. Learn how to listen, interact and respond, improvise, and become part of the groov...
Morph those boring 26 standard rudiments you learned into mind-blowing grooves, fills and solos! All that rhythmic sophistication you hear from great drummers can easily be broken down into its basic...
Make your rock band better, or prepare yourself to join one! This sensational series lets you improve your intuitive sense of timing and improvisation, develop your technique and reading ability, and...
Learn how to take any basic rock/funk drum beat and morph it into jazz and world music feels. Improve your chops, expand your versatility, and develop your own style. The accompanying CD features over...
Make your band better, or prepare yourself to join one! This sensational series lets you improve your intuitive sense of timing and improvisation, develop your technique and reading ability, and maste...
Learn the art of creating solid rock bass lines! Whether you're an aspiring or a seasoned bass player, this workshop will help you play with attitude and confidence. It contains a gold mine of riffs a...
Learn the art of creating a solid slap bass groove. Whether you're an aspiring or seasoned bassist, this workshop will teach you many of the slap bass lines and styles found in your favorite rock, fun...
Afro-Cuban rhythms are hot, and the bass is the beating heart of the groove! Now you can learn to play slap bass in seven popular Afro-Cuban styles: cha cha, son montuno, songo, timba, Afro-Cuban 6/8,...
Learn the art of creating a solid fingerstyle funk bass groove. Whether you are an aspiring or seasoned bass player, this workshop will help you learn many of the bass lines and styles found in your f...
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...
Play ten blues classics in the style of the masters! These transcriptions and annotations show you how the world's greatest blues guitarists created their unique, inspired solos and rhythm parts. Vete...
Umfangreiche Improvisationsetüden zu allen Akkorden in allen Tonarten, Berklee Press.
Develop a fingerboard facility that fuses the great navigational conception of the classical guitar tradition with the improvisational, on-the-fly, solo content/language of the modern jazz guitarist,...
The beginning-level book of this comprehensive method teaches a wide range of guitar and music fundamentals, including: scales, melodic studies, chord and arpeggio studies, how to read music, accompan...
A modern method ideal for all beginning guitarists, studying individually or in a class. Technique and reading skills are developed through two-, three- and four-part ensemble arrangements of traditio...
Expression is the essence of jazz improvisation. With this DVD in the Berklee Workshop series, you will develop your own style as you work with the building blocks of expression and articulation and l...
The vocal workouts in this much-anticipated follow-up to Peckham's bestselling The Contemporary Singer are based on Berklee College of Music's highly effective vocal method. This volume will help voca...
Connect to your authentic singing voice with this holistic guide to a healthy and expressive singing life. This collection of technical discussions, exercises, and insights will help you improve all a...
Become a better improvising harpist. Learn basic chords, chord symbols, and harmonic progressions used in a wide range of music, including jazz, folk, and other styles. Whether you play pedal or lever...
Whether you're into hip-hop, urban, rock, alternative, dance, electronic, jazz, blues, or country, drums play a prominent roll in the production and arrangement of a song. This book will help to expla...
Improve your ear, sight-reading and sense of ensemble. These duets, trios and canons will help improve your sense of pitch and timing through major scales, modes and chromatic melodies. They bring to...
Simple substitution, diatonic approach, adding dominant and subdominant chords, harmonic displacement, modal interchange, etc. , many examples and exercises
This essential method features rigorous, hands-on, 'ears-on' practice exercises that help you explore the inner working of music, presenting notes, scales, and rhythms as they are heard in pop, jazz,...
Whether you notate music by hand or use computer software, this practical reference will show you today's best practices rendering the details of your scores and parts. Improve your music's legibility...
Melody is a subject too often neglected in the teaching of music. This unique resource gives melody that attention it deserves, and proves that melody writing is a skill that can be learned. Through p...
Learn the fundamental techniques behind today's hit songs, with easy-to-follow exercises so you can immediately apply these tools to your own songs. Quit wrestling with writer's block, and learn to ma...
When you think of jazz composers, who comes to mind? Jelly Roll Morton, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Bob Brookmeyer. This book is about what they (and many others)...
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...
Learn to improvise the blues in jazz, Latin, fusion, rock and funk styles - in all keys! - with step-by-step instructions, practice tips, and a play-along Online Audio. Even if you are a complete begi...
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...
Culled from exclusive interviews from Berklee Today, the alumni magazine of Berklee College of Music, this collection of candid interviews with such illustrious alumni as Quincy Jones, Branford Marsal...
The interactive song lessons on this extremely comprehensive DVD disc represent a cross-section of modern guitar styles and song forms. The split-screen footage, multiple camera angles and incredible...
From the Music Research Institute at Berklee College of Music comes a manifesto for the ongoing music revolution. Today, the record companies may be hurting but the music-making business is booming, u...
The definitive text used for the time-honored Chord Scales course at Berklee College of Music, this book concentrates on scoring for every possible ensemble combination and teaches performers and arra...
Twelve arrangements for solo jazz piano of standard jazz tunes. These arrangements are fun to play, musically suitable for performance, and support the Berklee piano curriculum and other activities (e...
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 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...
If you dream about a career in the music industry, this book is for you. These practical strategies will help you to prepare for and land your dream job in the music business. Thousands of readers hav...
With the free-form exchange of music files and musical ideas online, understanding copyright laws has become essential to career success in the new music marketplace. This cutting-edge, plain-language...
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 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.
Organize and manage your music projects! Whether you are a performer, writer, engineer, educator, manager, or music maker, these time-tested charts, plots, diagrams, checklists, and agreements will he...
Learn the techniques to perform metal bass lines. In this book, you will learn to construct and perform bass lines emblematic of metal. You will analyze bass lines that are characteristic of different...
Find better rhymes, and use them more effectively. Rhyme is one of the most crucial areas of lyric writing, and this guide will provide you with all the technical information necessary to develop your...
Learn the techniques, common practices, and essential repertoire of the classical mandolin. You will learn long-established mandolin techniques and their contemporary applications. You will discover g...
Discover how to play in a rock band with this Berklee Practice Method book/online audio access pack! Lessons throughout the book guide you through technique that is specific to playing the saxophone i...
Considered by critics around the world to be one of today's finest Latin jazz artists, Berklee College of Music professor, vibraphonist and composer Victor Mendoza will help you learn and master essen...
Learn how to play and practice the classic rhythms of the Afro-Cuban tradition with Berklee professor Ricardo Monzón. Monzón demonstrates the patterns and instruments that form the beating heart of th...
Sweep picking and arpeggios are among the most useful hard rock/metal/shred techniques, though they are also applicable to any style. Joe Stump takes you through studies, etudes, and track excerpts ra...
This chord dictionary includes over 100 rock chord forms, from open-position chords to barre chords and drop-tunings, with a comprehensive glossary of the essential chords in all 12 keys. It is organi...
Increase your command of the guitar. Joe Stump reveals licks, techniques, and exerises to build your guitar technique. Learn licks and techniques comon in rock/metal sytles, and commit them to finger...
Play great rock while you learn from one of the most revered guitar methods of all time! These songs map directly to the lessons of William Leavitt's Modern Method for Guitar Vol. 1, the basic guitar...
These exercises will help musicians move between instruments more accurately, while enhancing their reading ability for recording work, shows and the theatre pit. Teaches how to play more melodically...
These studies provide comprehensive insight and practice into many different aspects of drumming. They will help you to master a broad range of techniques and integrate them into your playing so that...
Develop your violin fingerboard knowledge and facility. Whether you are looking to unlock your ability to improvise, deepen your knowledge of harmony, compose new works, improve your musical memory, o...
Learn what it means to be an artist today. Musicians, writers, visual artists, and creators from a variety of other disciplines discuss their lives and work-how they perceive their craft and their wor...
Get detailed, practical advice on how to network, adapt to different musical settings, take full advantage of opportunities, and be a successful musician. A consummate pro in constant demand, David Ro...
Watch this DVD and learn to play the turntable like your favorite DJs and create your own style! Equally ideal for the beginner or experienced DJ, this disc will help you: master the essentials and de...
Producing Music with Digital Performer is a comprehensive guide to the features and strategies behind one of the most powerful pieces of music production software. There are in-depth descriptions of D...
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...
A thorough presentation of rhythms commonly found in contemporary music, including 68 harmonized melodies and 42 rhythm exercises. This highly respected and popular book is also an excellent source fo...
How does a song become more than words and music to represent or influence the voice of a generation? Inside the Hits dissects more than 60 of the most powerful and memorable hit songs since the birth...
An essential guide for all songwriters and Beatles fans, this book explores John Lennon's songwriting genius with a guided tour through 25 of his Beatles-era hits. Author John Stevens explains Lennon'...
Effective improvisation can add fun and individuality to guitar performances. This book presents a unique improvisation strategy based on ear training and a linear interpretation of note/chord relatio...
Get the most out of Digidesign's Pro Tools software with this comprehensive home studio guide that will show you how to create the highest quality recordings by honing your production skills and engin...
Write songs that sell! Hit-songwriter/educator Andrea Stolpe shares time-tested tools of commercial songwriting. Her ten-step process will help you to craft lyrics that communicate heart to heart with...
Expert producer/engineer Dan Moretti leads you step by step through the producing and mixing processes. Learn how different techniques - from mic placement to EQ - help you create authentic-sounding a...
Capture the authentic sounds of contemporary hip-hop/R&B with this step-by-step guide. Follow the process as a professional, self-producing artist tracks and mixes two hip-hop/R&B songs. Learn the eff...
Learn the secrets to a successful singing career! A perfect complement to technique books, this essential handbook teaches how to: develop stage presence and musical identity; choose songs that showca...
Become a better musician through yoga. By integrating yoga into your practice routines, you will develop a more focused and concentrated mind for performance. You will be able to increase awareness of...
Berklee expert speaks on how to market and distribute your songs and group. Sell more music! Learn the most effective marketing strategies available to musicians, leveraging the important changes and...
This amazing compilation features 600 quotations from esteemed musicians and artists who have taken a moment to reflect on their influences, heroes, integrity, performances, and so much more. These ge...