Here Are Some Other Books Mark Elf Highly Recommends!!

Barry Galbraith Guitar Solos

Volume #1 Volume #2
For All We Know

Darn That Dream

My Funny Valentine

Alone Together

I Can't Get Started

As Time Goes By

Have You Met Miss Jones

Born to Be Blue

Embraceable You

You Go to My Head

In a Sentimental Mood

'Round Midnight

Good Morning Heartache

A Certain Smile

Come Rain or Come Shine

Here's that Rainy Day

How About You?

I Cover the Waterfront

I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face

Imagination

Last Night When We Were Young

Love Walked In

Our Love is Here to Stay

Satin Doll

Somebody Loves Me

Yesterdays

A note from Mark Elf: I studied with Barry Galbraith in the late 60s to around 1971 or so. I can tell you this is a worth while book if you'd like to be able to play chord solos. It's a learn by example book, a practical approach to playing chord melodies. I highly recommend it.

It is worth spending a couple of evenings a week, instead of meeting up with friends, or going to the bingo, sitting down with these books. You will find that with a little bit of practice, you will quickly pick up the art of playing chord melodies.

Thirteen Standards compiled by Jim Lichens 

Book #1 - $19.95 Book #2 - $17.95

Barry Galbraith was one of the best jazz guitarists of the 1950's. He was also a fine music reader who would write out his own arrangements of standards for his students. Both his playing and his writing are very straightforward. This book takes thirteen of Barry's rough, hand-written arrangements and adds chord symbols, left-hand fingering, and tablature. The companion CD was recorded by John Purse and includes both a normal speed and a slow version of each tune. Also included in the book are quotes about Barry from many other famous musicians, a 7-page article on Barry by his son Don, an obituary by George Russell, and numerous pictures of Barry at different times in his life.

Intermediate-Advanced Wirebound 9 x 11.75ß

Jazz Structures For The New Millennium by Joe Diorio 99230BCD Book/CD Set $19.95 + $1.00 Shipping
96 Intervallic Designs to Expand Your Improvising Vocabulary

Joe Dioro is an accomplished guitarist and composer as well as a respected music educator. In this book he combines his skills to present innovative "intervallic designs" for the guitar. Written in standard notation and tab, these linear, often 12-tone flavored studies reflect Diorio's jazz roots and compositional mastery. Due to the harmonic ambiguity of these lines, the author recommends an experimental approach in applying these examples in various melodic and harmonic settings. The companion stereo CD features Diorio's performance of each of the 96 studies in the book.

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