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All Intros & Endings For Jazz Guitar--Bebop, Swing, Latin, Ballads Dozens of hip intros and endings that you can not only use on the gig tonight, but also use as a starting point for developing your own ideas. Includes chord progressions, voice-led ending chords, vamps (bebop, swing, Latin, ballads), extended ideas, classic intros, many concepts, and more. 40 jam-packed pages (tab as well as standard notation), with a 40-track CD. $19.95.

Cedar & Silver Music For Solo Guitar Original compositions (plus two arrangements) for fingerstyle guitar that meld world, classical, jazz, and blues elements. Tracks include "Asian Pavan," "Brothers," "Elegy," "Medley For Kirk" (love theme from Spartacus plus the theme from The Vikings), "Rio Verde," "Horace," "Aurora," "Nisene," "Cedar & Silver," "Nicki's Tune," "Diez Dias," "Blanca," and "Gospel Medley." $13.95. Music available. "[Jim] is a wonderful composer . . . his technique is impeccable."--Dr. Frank Forte, Just Jazz Guitar

New! Moonstone Music For Solo Guitar Jim's second solo CD features 17 original compositions for classical/fingerstyle guitar, four of which are included in Contemporary Anthology Of Solo Guitar Music For Five Fingers, edited by Charles Postlewate. Includes "Before Six," "Leo's Blues," "Sumi Dance," "Chuck's Waltz," "Cirque du Soul," "Lady Di," the title track (a 9:22 tribute to the music of India), and the first six 12 Simple Jazzy Studies. $13.95. Music available.

Shapes, Patterns & Lines For Jazz Guitar Unleash the improvisational power of fingerboard shapes--utilized by many guitar greats--with this book, which covers numerous major, minor, and dominant chord-based patterns and superimpositions, and a host of ideas and concepts to help you assemble them into dynamic solos. Includes four complete solos on common song forms/progressions and a 28-track CD. $19.95.

New! 12 Simple Jazzy Studies For Solo Guitar A new, revised edition published by Les Productions d'OZ. 12 pieces in nine keys, featuring a wealth of rhythms, chord voicings, and settings. Easy to intermediate; 24 pages, standard notation only. $15.95. Six of the studies are included on Jim's CD Moonstone.. "The studies are engaging and a rewarding challenge well worth the time to play them."--Dr. Frank Forte, Just Jazz Guitar

All Solos & Grooves For Jazz Guitar--Position Studies, Scales & Patterns A powerful method for learning scales, the fretboard, and improving your improvisational fluency while learning cool licks and hip vamp grooves, this innovative book's five solos and grooves are designed to be position study etudes that cover each of the five basic scale fingerings in the context of either a swing, ballad or Latin feel. Each solo emphasizes rhythm and phrasing, and is grounded in a single key center and limited to a single fingering, enabling you to fully explore and familiarize yourself with the fingerboard without the added complications of changing key centers and fingerings. Also covers minor scales and modes and patterns. 40 jam-packed pages with a 26-track CD. $21.

All Blues Scale For Jazz Guitar--Solos, Grooves & Patterns The only book to exclusively focus on the blues scale as it applies to jazz guitar, All Blues Scale For Jazz Guitar--Solos, Grooves & Patterns features a wealth of information, including many scale patterns, six complete solos with dozens of licks, and diverse accompanying grooves that use a wide array of chords, tempos, and rhythmic feels. Inspired by the work of legendary players such as Kenny Burrell, Grant Green, Wes Montgomery, and George Benson. 32 jam-packed pages; includes standard notation, tablature, and a 30-track CD that lets you hear the examples as well as see them. $19.95. "Jim Ferguson's books are essential for any guitarist wishing to expand their jazz vocabulary."--Jimmy Bruno

All Blues Soloing For Jazz Guitar--Scales, Licks, Concepts & Choruses The most complete guide to jazz/blues soloing ever written, All Blues Soloing details the sounds, elements, and approaches that make the blues such an integral part of the jazz vocabulary. Moving from blues progressions to fingerboard organization to phrasing, this 96-page volume covers essential blues scales, riffs, licks, lick development, and an array of advanced concepts and devices, including substitute scales and extended super arpeggios. In the process, it features 38 complete solos, more than 100 music examples, and hundreds of licks. With both standard notation and tablature, the book also comes with a 32-track CD that lets you hear the music, as well as see it. All Blues Soloing follows in the footsteps of Ferguson's critically acclaimed All Blues For Jazz Guitar-Comping Styles, Chords & Grooves. 96 pages, $24.95. "Learn these smokey lines, and you'll amaze your bandmates the next time you launch into a shuffle."--Guitar Player

All Blues For Jazz Guitar--Comping Styles, Chords & Grooves One of the best guitar books ever! A comprehensive guide to jazz/blues comping styles. This 92-page book/CD package (with 30 tracks) covers straight-four playing in the style of Freddie Green and others, swing riff comping, bebop linear comping, and walking bass lines with chords. In tablature and standard notation. $24.95. "Essential for all of my students."--Howard Morgen

New! Contemporary Anthology Of Solo Guitar Music "This is the first compilation of guitar music specifically composed for right-hand technique that includes the little finger. The 57 compositions are by renowned guitarist/composers from Europe, North America, South America and the Caribbean. Music by Ernesto Cordero, Carlos Dorado, Jim Ferguson, David Flynn, Gerald Garcia, John Hall, Ricardo Iznaola, James Lentini, John Oliver, Charles Postlewate, Mirko Schrader, Burkhard 'Buck' Wolters and Luis Zea shows the advantages of a five-finger technique in the playing of scales, chords, arpeggios, tremolos and harmonics. [It also shows] the advantages of using the little finger for speed, accuracy, strength and balance. All of these compositions are edited and fingered by Charles Postlewate, pioneer in the use of a five-finger technique. Standard notation only. In English and Spanish." Includes six pieces by Jim, four of which are featured on Moonstone. 156 pages, $24.99. N.B. The aforementioned recording features a few changes not reflected in my published scores. For details, click here.

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