Play great jazz while you learn from this revered guitar method! These solos and duets map directly to the lessons in William Leavitt's Modern Method for Guitar, Volume 1, the basic guitar text at Berklee College of Music. Since the 1960s, the Modern Method for Guitar series has been one of world's most popular guitar methods, translated into Spanish, French, and Japanese, and selling over half a million copies.

Carefully overseen by Larry Baione, chair of Berklee's Guitar Department (and a former student of William Leavitt), these arrangements are crafted to Leavitt's time-proven approach, giving you the chance to apply what you learn to music by Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Sonny Rollins, Django Reinhardt, and other jazz greats. The accompanying CD demonstrates all the tunes and offers play-along tracks for practicing the duets.

Songs include: Afternoon in Paris • Basin Street Blues • A Child Is Born • Daphne • Here's That Rainy Day • In a Sentimental Mood • My Little Suede Shoes • St. Thomas • Samba De Orfeu • So What • Swing 42 • Valse Hot • The Very Thought of You • When I Fall in Love • Willow Weep for Me.

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 comprehensive range of guitar and music fundamentals, including: scales, melodic studies, chord and arpeggio studies, how to read music, special exercises for developing technique in both hands, voice leading using moveable chord forms, and more.

Leavitt's practical, comprehensive method is used as the basic text for Berklee's guitar program. After mastering the fundamentals from Volumes 1 and 2, guitarists will be ready to take their skills to a more challenging level. This book teaches: techniques relating to scales, arpeggios, rhythm guitar, chord/scale relationships, chord construction and voicings, tips for advanced playing, and more.

Learn to play arpeggios on the guitar with this comprehensive yet easy-to-use book, a supplement to the Hal Leonard Guitar Method. The Arpeggio Finder contains more than 1,300 arpeggio shapes, covering 28 different qualities for each key, with each quality presented in four different shapes. Great for guitarists looking to hone their skills!