Music Resources
I recently completed a 1 year full time course at Guitar X Music
School : part of the Tech Music Schools in London.
I would thoroughly recommend this place : its one of the best
contemporary music schools in the world.
They teach drums, guitar, bass, keyboards, and vocals and offer private lessons, weekend courses, summer school, 3 month and 1 year diplomas and a full time degree course.
See http://www.techmusicschools.co.uk/
Here's a compilation of some of the books and artists and albums
which were mentioned or recommended by various teachers.
Books
Improvising Blues Guitar - John Wheatcroft
The Inner Game of Music
Effortless Mastery - Kenny Werner
"My bass and other animals"
Music Reading for Guitar Complete Method David Oakes
Modern Method for Guitar Vols 1-3 William Leavitt
Finger Picking exercises from Maurio Guiliani "120 patterns from right
hand" (free apparently !)
Jamie Abersold "Jazz Standards" books
Hal Leonard Backing Tracks by Jamie Aberstal
Michael WHites Real Book in 'C'
Bebop Bible - Ken Wise / Les Wise (aka "101 Jazz Guitar Licks")
"The Real Book" : JaAZZ Standards
David Gilbert & Beth Marlis : Guitar Soling: The contemporary guide to
improvisation (Musicians Institute Press)
Frank Gambale "Improvising Made Easier" "The Frank Gambale Technique
Book"
Derek bailey "On the edge" Improvisation Documentary
Full Scores for cover versions by "London Orchestration"
DVDs
Jules Holland "Later" series
Rock/Metal/Pop
Foo Fighters
Metallica ("black album" & "master of puppets")
Iron Maiden
Rage against the machine ("Wake Up")
Pantera (diminished shredding !)
Beatles
Bob Dylan
Tommy Bolan "James Gang"
Hendrix
Jeff Beck "Blow by Blow", "Wired"
Free (first 2 albums)
Van Halen (first 4 albums !, "fair warning")
AC/DC "back in black" & "highway to hell" / whole lotta rosie
Jazz
Don Mock "jazz chops for rhythm guitar" - great jazz
licks to transcribe
Joe Pass DVD "the blues side of jazz" - great Jazz Licksto
transcribe
Joe Pass - VERY popular jazz player
Joe Pass and Ellafitzgerald playing together
Mike Stern "These Times" (fantastic)
George Benson
Charlie Parker "Omnibook", "ornithology" - great
licks to transcribe
Clifford Brown and Max Roach "live at basin street"
Miles Davis "live" in paris, fillimore east, birdland, montreux 1963
Herbie Hancock - Watermelon Man/Maiden Voyage/Thrust
Pat Metheney "James"
Pat Martino (greate dorian Jazz licks to transcribe)
Jazz Jamaica
Duke Ellington
Louis Armstrong
Wes MOntgomery - "Smokin at the Half NOte"
John Coltrane "My favourite things"
Thelonius Monk "straight no chaser"
Branford Marcellis = Bragg Town & "a love supreme" remake
Billy Cobham "Spectrum"
Mahavishnu Orchestra (John McLaughlin)
Jon Schofield - accessible - "bump" "blue matter" , "loud jazz" "still warm" "pick hits"
Steeley Dan
Jim Mullen - Live in London
Bireli Lagrene } play together live
Martin Taylor }
Aaron Goldberg - intense
Robert Glasper (jazz piano) "in my element"
Chick Corea
Ronny Jordan (version of "so what")
Anthony Tidd
Randy Rhodes - "Blizzard of oz"
Kurt RosenWinkle - Superb Jazz Solos
Tribal Tech fusion incl. Scott Henderson
Bluenote Compilation Albums
Quite Sane incl. Anthony Tidd HipHop-Jazz !
Django Bathes "The Interval Song"
Technical Guitar
G3 Live in Denver
Steve Vai "passion and warfare" & "fire garden"
Joe Satriani "the extremist" , "flying in a blue dream",
"surfing with the alien"
Frank Zappa "Hot Rats"
Alan Holdsworth
Yngwie Malmsteen - "Alcatraz"
Blues
John Mayall "Riding on the L&N"
Robben Ford
Robert Johnson ("founder" of the blues !) & John Lee Hooker
Buddy Guy
Derek Trucks Band - "Live at Georgia Theatre"
Larry Carlton & Steve Lukather : "No Substitutions live in Osaka"
Scott Henderson blues live album
Albert King
BB King
Country/Folk
Carter Family
Robert Plant & Alison Kraus
Brent Mason
Funk
Earth wind and fire,
Funkadelic,
RH Factor
Parliament
Soul/R&B/World
Fela Kuti Afrobeat
Antibalas
Joshua Redman,
Van Hunt,
Lucy Pear,
Commodores "nightshift"
R&B/HipHop
Quincy Jones - back on the block
Soulive
Dwele,
Roy Hygrove,
Richard Bona (beautiful African singer) "Reverance", Munia "The tale scenes from my life"
Musiq "Soulchild Aijuswanaseing",
Philadelphia Experience
QTip "the renaissance"