Selected Guitar and Bass New Releases - May 1998
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The following titles are selected new releases from Hal Leonard for May/June 1998 and are available from Southern Music Company. Some titles may not be available at this time. All copyrighted materials are used with permission from Hal Leonard Corporation.

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Guitar

Signature Licks

The Red Hot Chili Peppers
by Dale Turner

This book/CD pack provides a step-by-step breakdown of this great funk-rock band’s guitar styles and techniques, using examples from Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Mother’s Milk, One Hot Minute and The Uplift Mofo Party Plan. Analyzes 12 big hits: Aeroplane | Breaking the Girl | Catholic School Girls Rule | Fight Like a Brave | Give It Away | Good Time Boys | Love Rollercoaster | My Friends | Subway to Venus | Taste the Pain | Under the Bridge | Warped. 00695173 Book/CD Pack $19.95

 

Recorded Versions

311

All 14 songs from their self-titled "blue" album: All Mixed Up | Brodels | DLMD | Don’t Stay Home | Down | Guns (Are for Pussies) | Hive | Jackolantern’s Weather | Loco | Misdirected Hostility | Purpose | Random | Sweet | T & P Combo. 00690267 $19.95

Eric Clapton - 24 Nights

Features all 15 titles from this hit album: Bad Love | Badge | Bell Bottom Blues | Edge of Darkness | Hard Times | Have You Ever Loved A Woman | Hoodoo Man Blues | Old Love | Pretending | Running on Faith | Sunshine of Your Love | Watch Yourself | White Room | Wonderful Tonight | Worried Life Blues. 00690243 $19.95

The Buddy Guy Collection
Features 31 songs by the hands-down master of blues in two volumes.

Volume 1 - A - J

16 blues classics: Blues at My Baby’s House | Buddy’s Blues | Damn Right, I’ve Got the Blues | First Time I Met the Blues | Five Long Years | Good News | How Can One Woman Be So Mean | I Had a Dream Last Night | I Smell a Rat | Jam on a Monday | more. 00690114 $22.95

Volume 2 - L - Y

15 more blues tunes: $100 Bill | Leave My Girl Alone | Let Me Love You Baby | Mary Had a Little Lamb | She Is Out There | She Suits Me to a Tee | Stick Around | This Is the End | You Better Watch Yourself | You Were Wrong | You’ve Been Gone Too Long | more. 00690193 $22.95

The Skip James Blues Collection

Thirteen great tunes from the highly influential Delta bluesman Skip James. Includes: Be Ready When He Comes | Cherry Ball Blues | Crow Jane | Devil Got My Woman | Hard Luck Child | Hardtime Killing Floor Blues | I’m So Glad | Illinois Blues | more. 00690167 $16.95

Gary Moore - Dark Days in Paradise

Includes 11 songs in standard notation & tab: Afraid of Tomorrow | Always There for You | Business as Usual | Cold Wind Blows | Dark Days in Paradise | I Have Found My Love in You | Like Angels | One Fine Day | One Good Reason | What Are We Here For? | Where Did We Go Wrong?. Also includes photos and a bio of Gary Moore, and a separate lyric section. 00690298 $19.95

‘70s Guitar Classics

25 great hits: All Right Now | Detroit Rock City | Don’t Fear the Reaper | Free Ride | Iron Man | Jessica | Layla | Message in a Bottle | Miss You | Money | Reelin’ in the Years | Sultans of Swing | Sweet Home Alabama | Walk This Way | You Really Got Me | more. 00690207 $17.95

The Folk-Rock Guitar Collection

Fourteen folk-rock favorites: American Pie | At Seventeen | Fire and Rain | Here Comes the Sun | Leader of the Band | Leaving on a Jet Plane | Southern Cross | Summer Breeze | Taxi | Turn! Turn! Turn! | You’re Only Lonely | You’re So Vain | more. 00690205 $16.95

 

Artist Transcriptions

Johnny Smith Guitar Solos
transcribed by Steve Silverman
edited by Jack Wilkins

Includes 21 authentic transcriptions of the legendary Johnny Smith’s guitar solos played on favorite jazz standards: Dancing on the Ceiling | East of the Sun (And West of the Moon) | Have You Met Miss Jones? | I’ll Remember April | Love for Sale | Moonlight in Vermont | ‘S Wonderful | Tea for Two | Tickle Toe | What’s New | Where or When | more. 00672374 $14.95 (0-7935-7736-5)

Also available in the Artist Transcriptions series:
Windows: Guitar Transcriptions by Jack Wilkins 00673249 $14.95
The Best of Scott Henderson for Guitar 00672335 $24.95
The Scott Henderson Guitar Book 00699330 $19.95

 

Easy Guitar (with notes and tab)

Love Songs of the ‘90s

Includes 20 songs arranged for easy guitar in notes and tab: The Colour of My Love | Emotions | I’d Do Anything for Love | I’ll Make Love to You | Lovefool | Save the Best for Last | Vision of Love | You Were Meant for Me | more. 00702063 $9.95

 

Rock University

Rock University, Volume 6

Learn your favorite Guitar World transcriptions note-for-note! This CD/performance note pack teaches:

Volume 6 includes tracks from: Aenema (Tool) | Be Quiet and Drive (Deftones) | Communication Breakdown (Led Zeppelin) | Dancing Days (Led Zeppelin) | Good Riddance (Green Day) | Like a Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan) | Roxanne (The Police) | Soul Man (Sam & Dave) | Would? (Alice in Chains). 00695296 CD/Performance Notes $9.95

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Total Accuracy - Professional Guitar Workshops

Jam with Ritchie Blackmore

Players can learn eight of Ritchie Blackmore’s tracks note-for-note then jam with a professional session band! Includes exact transcriptions and backing tracks on CD for: Black Night | Highway Star | I Surrender | Lazy | Since You’ve Been Gone | Smoke on the Water | Space Truckin’ | and Strange Kind of Woman. Also includes an introduction and performance notes. 00695299 Book/CD Pack $19.95

Jam with Gary Moore

Learn eight of rock and blues great Gary Moore’s tracks note-for-note! Includes: Cold Day in Hell | Empty Rooms | The Loner | Oh, Pretty Woman | Parisienne Walkways | Still Got the Blues | Story of the Blues | Walking by Myself. Features superb quality live recorded backing tracks to jam with! 00695300 Book/CD Pack $19.95

Classic Blues Jam Session for Guitar

This book/CD pack lets guitarists play along with nine of the greatest blues guitar songs ever! Includes authentic transcriptions and jam tracks for: Confidence Man (Jeff Healey) | Crossroads (Cross Road Blues) (Cream) | The Healer (John Lee Hooker) | Hideaway (Eric Clapton) | I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man (Eric Clapton) | Life Without You (Stevie Ray Vaughan) | Riviera Paradise (Stevie Ray Vaughan) | Rock Me Baby (B.B. King) | Still Got the Blues (Gary Moore). 00695111 Book/CD Pack $17.95

 

Musicians Institute

Music Reading for Guitar
The Complete Method by David Oakes
Essential Concepts

Starting at the elementary level and progressing to advanced techniques, this comprehensive method is like a complete two-year guitar course in book form. It includes over 450 songs and examples, and covers: notes, rhythms, keys, positions, dynamics, syncopation, chord charts, duets, scale forms, phrasing, odd time, and much more. Designed from an MI core curriculum program. 00695192 $16.95

 

FastTrack Music Instruction

FastTrack is a perfect way for beginners to learn to play their new instruments. FastTrack is different from other method books; we’ve made it user-friendly with plenty of cool songs (by The Beatles, Eric Clapton, Elton John and other great artists!) that make it easy and fun for players to teach themselves. Plus, the last section of all the FastTrack books has the same songs so that students can form a band and jam together. FastTrack is sure to get your customers playing those instruments and back on track to your store for even more great books to play! Songbooks are all compatible, and feature eight songs. Level 1 includes: You Really Got Me | Wild Thing | I Want to Hold Your Hand | Brown Eyed Girl | Oh, Pretty Woman | and more. Level 2 includes: Back in the U.S.S.R. | Born to Be Wild | Layla | Maggie May | Takin’ Care of Business | and more. All packs include a great play-along CD with professional-sounding back-up band.

FastTrack Guitar
For electric or acoustic guitar - or both!
by Blake Neely & Jeff Schroedl

Teaches music notation, tablature, full chords and power chords, riffs, licks, and scales, and rock and blues styles. Method Book 1 includes 73 songs and examples.

 

Guitar Class Publications

Contemporary Class Guitar
by Will Schmid

This revolutionary instructional course for class guitar offers the ultimate in solid educational value, and great songs to maintain students’ interest. Songs in Book 1 include: Eleanor Rigby | Feelings | Goodnight, Irene | Greensleeves | Hey Jude | Hound Dog | I Walk the Line | Nowhere Man | Scarborough Fair | Try to Remember | Yesterday | You Needed Me | and more! Book 2 includes: Abilene | All Shook Up | Daniel | Folsom Prison Blues | Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys | Memory | Shake, Rattle & Roll | Ticket to Ride | and more. Each book is 96 pages and contains more than 45 songs.

The Chord Strummer
by Will Schmid

Presented in a sing and strum format, this book teaches fingerpicking and uses 15 basic chords. An outstanding instruction book for general music classes! Includes great songs such as: Hound Dog | The Midnight Special | The Rainbow Connection | Where Have All the Flowers Gone? | Yellow Submarine | and more. 00699250 $5.95

 

Musicic Reference Publication

Guitar People
by Willie G. Moseley
foreword by Mark Farner
Vintage Guitar Books

With two or three interviews in each issue of Vintage Guitar magazine, Willie G. Moseley has to be one of the most prolific guitar player interviewers on Earth. This, his fourth book, is a guitar lover’s extravaganza, containing over 60 of his best interviews from the past several years with the greats of yesterday and today, including legends such as Larry Carlton, Duane Eddy, Billy Gibbons, B.B. King, Ted Nugent, Lee Ritenour, Robin Trower, Allen Woody, and many more. Guitar People also features lots of photos and reprints of other guitar-oriented columns. 246 pages, 8-1/2" x 11" 00330321 $19.95

 

Bass

Artist Transcription

The Gary Willis Collection
Bass Transcriptions

This collection showcases the playing of jazz/rock/ fusion bassist extraodinaire Gary Willis. Includes 11 bass transcriptions in standard notation and tablature, selected from four albums by Tribal Tech: Babylon | The Big Wave | Canine | Dense Dance | Face First | The Necessary Blonde | Nite Club | Paha-Sapa | Self Defense | Speak | Wounded. As a special bonus, this book also includes exact transcriptions of Scott Henderson’s guitar parts, and an interview with Gary Willis. 00672337 $19.95

 

FastTrack Music Instruction

FastTrack Bass
by Blake Neely & Jeff Schroedl

Everything you need to know about playing the bass, including music notation, tablature, riffs, licks, and scales, syncopation, and rock and blues styles. Method Book 1 includes 75 songs and examples.

 

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