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January 15, 2008

Easy Soloing for Jazz Guitar and Easy Soloing for Acoustic Guitar from Alfred

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Source: Alfred Publishing

Easy Soloing for Jazz Guitar and Easy Soloing for Acoustic Guitar

Easy Soloing for Jazz Guitar and Easy Soloing for Acoustic Guitar

Alfred is excited to introduce an all-new series featuring the best and easiest ways for keyboardists and guitarists to make their solos stand out. Alfred’s Easy Soloing series features book and CD sets that will have musicians on their way to improvising with style and skill in no time.

Easy Soloing for Jazz Guitar and Easy Soloing for Acoustic Guitar offer techniques for guitarists interested in creating stellar solos now. For many musicians, soloing is the ultimate form of self-expression. Easy Soloing for Jazz Guitar offers an easy-to-use introduction to the art of jazz improvisation. Both advanced players looking to learn more about spontaneity and improvising as well as beginning students of jazz will benefit from the basic strategies presented. Easy Soloing for Acoustic Guitar also teaches methods to approach soloing with confidence, so that guitarists can apply what they’ve learned to thousands of songs in different music styles. The practical guidelines included offer helpful techniques to use in real life. Each book features standard music notation and TAB and includes a CD demonstrating all the examples in the book.

Easy Soloing for Jazz Guitar and Easy Soloing for Acoustic Guitar are available now as book and CD sets for $16.95 each. Obtain your copies at your local retail store, or visit alfred.com for the locations near you.

About Alfred Publishing
Since its inception in 1922, Alfred Publishing remains dedicated to helping people experience the joy of making music. With hundreds of expert authors and composers backed by a talented staff in seven offices worldwide, Alfred publishes educational, reference, pop, and performance pieces for teachers, students, hobbyists and performers spanning every musical instrument, style, and difficulty level.

Alfred currently has over 45,000 active print, DVD, software, general MIDI, audio CD and enhanced CD titles in circulation throughout the world. Titles represent a full range of musical tastes and styles, including the works of George and Ira Gershwin, Duke Ellington, Burt Bacharach, Henry Mancini, Led Zeppelin, the Eagles, Madonna, Green Day, and hundreds more. In addition to its own titles, Alfred distributes works from the National Guitar Workshop, the Dover Music catalog, and Faber Music.

For more information about Alfred Publishing, please visit www.alfred.com.





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