The Guitar Play-Along Series will help you play your favourite songs quickly and easily! Just follow the tab, listen to the CD to hear how the guitar should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The melody and lyrics are included in the book in case you want to sing, or to simply help you follow along. The CD is playable on any CD player, and also enhanced so PC & Mac users can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing pitch!

This book by Berklee bass prof Anthony Vitti will help you make your bass lines more creative, unique and memorable. Tap into the groove and evolve your bass lines by using fills. This book brings you beyond the basics and helps you incorporate figures into your lines that are natural to the groove, and applicable to many styles. The play-along recordings let you hear the fills in context, then practice them with a rhythm section.

R&B Piano Songs For Dummies includes forty rock, blues, soul, and contemporary favourites, complete with awesome performance notes to help you play each.

OutKast - Selections from Idlewild by Outkast. Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook. Softcover. 101 pages. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.306849). ISBN 1423422775. 9x12 inches. 13 OutKast tracks “rich with color and energy” (All Music Guide), both new tunes and selection from their 2006 flick set in the Prohibition Era. Includes: Call the Law • Dyin' to Live • Greatest Show on Earth • In Your Dreams • Makes No Sense at All • N2U • Peaches • PJ & Rooster • The Train • more.

(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay by Otis Redding. For guitar. Play-It-Now Tunes. 1. Instructional CD only (no sheet music included). Published by Talking Tabs (TK.810218012388). ISBN 810218012388. Learn to play "(Sittin' On)The Dock Of The Bay" as performed by Otis Redding. Let our world-class instructors break down every section of the song, teaching you the correct fingering for every note and chord, and what strings to play with the proper picking and strumming patterns. Then, once you have learned every section of "(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay," come jam with our band as we play the entire song leaving the guitar part up to you. You won't find an easier, more exciting way to learn to play this song than with Play-It-Now Tunes. About Play-It-Now Tunes Play-It-Now Tunes are all-audio song lessons that make it incredibly easy and very exciting for guitarists to learn to play the greatest hits! Every professionally crafted lesson is delivered entirely on CD by an expert instructor who teaches you to play every note, chord and strum of a song's primary guitar part without having to read any materials. A full band accompaniment brings the learning experience to a level never imagined in music instruction.The Benefits of Play-It-Now Tunes all-audio song lessons.* Your own private song lesson with an expert instructor on CD* Easy-to-follow audio instructions. There are No Materials to Read * Learn to play a song anywhere. All that is required is a CD player* Promotes ear training* The correct fingerings are taught* The strumming and picking patterns are taught* Your instructor keeps you playing correctly and in time* The techniques are taught* A full band accompaniment provides an exciting learning experience* A guided rehearsal brings it all together* A final Play Along lets you become the guitar player in the bandWelcome to the Band!

Bass Fingerstyle Funk Grooves Made Easy by Chris Matheos. For Electric Bass Guitar. Rhythm/Backup. Bill's Music Shelf. Funk. Beginning. Book + Online Audio. 32 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc (MB.21443). ISBN 9780786675777. Funk. 8.5" x 11" inches. Electric Bass. Fingerstyle funk bass playing can be found in many styles of modern music. Some of those styles include: funk, soul, fusion, contemporary jazz, hip-hop, pop, and dance. This book focuses on advanced rhythmic studies. It is loaded with grooves and funky progressions. The companion free downloadable audio files feature all of the examples recorded with a full band. There are play-along tracks for many of the full band examples available for download as well. This can help students focus on groove and time. All examples are written in bass clef and tablature. Free audio files available from the publisher.

Mary J. Blige - Growing Pains by Mary J. Blige. Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook. Softcover. 128 pages. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.306975). ISBN 1423438337. 9x12 inches. All 16 songs from the chart-topping, Grammy-nominated eighth album from the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul. Includes the hits “Just Fine” and “Work That,” plus: Come to Me (Peace) • Fade Away • Feel like a Woman • Grown Woman • Hurt Again • If You Love Me? • Roses • Shake Down • Smoke • Stay Down • Talk to Me • Till the Morning • What Love Is • Work in Progress (Growing Pains).

The Big Book of Soul Music Book, scoring: Piano/Vocal/Guitar, instruments: Guitar;Voice;Piano; 352 pages

Performed by: Billie Holiday: Billie Holiday Anthology Music Book, scoring: Piano/Vocal/Chords, instruments: Piano;Voice;Guitar

Performed by: Tina Turner: Simply the Best of Tina Turner Music Book, scoring: Piano/Vocal/Guitar, instruments: Guitar;Piano;Voice; 72 pages

Performed by: Cee-Lo Green: Cee Lo Green - The Lady Killer Music Book, scoring: Piano/Vocal/Guitar, instruments: Guitar;Voice;Piano; 74 pages

Your favourite sheet music will come to life with the innovative Piano Play-Along series! With these book/CD collections, Piano and Keyboard players will be able to practise and perform with professional-sounding accompaniments. Containing eight cream-of-the-crop songs each, the books feature new engravings, with a separate Vocal staff, plus Guitar frames, so players and their friends can sing or strum along.The CDs feature two tracks for each tune: a full performance for listening, and a separate backing track that lets players take the lead on keyboard. The high-quality, sound-alike accompaniments exactly match the printed music. 8 songs: All Night Long (All Night) • Lady • Penny Lover • Say You, Say Me • Still • Stuck on You • Three Times a Lady • Truly.

100 R&B classics are included in this stellar Piano, Voice and Guitar collection.

21 songs from the late R&B legend.

Released in February 2010, Soldier of Love is the highly anticipated sixth studio album from British R&B band Sade. The album has gone platinum in the U.S., with 1.1 million sales within the first few weeks of its release.This matching folio features all 10 tracks from the album, including the single Soldier of Love, arranged for Piano, Voice and Guitar.

Hailed as the "greatest bass player who ever lived," Jaco Pastorius (1951-1987) lives on through his groundbreaking legacy of musical brilliance. And now for the first time, one of Jaco's private students imparts the wisdom gained from one-on-one lessons with the bass genius himself.Complete with songs, solos, techniques, theory, and personal experiences with Jaco, this one-of-a-kind book/CD is finally here to give the world what it craves - Bass Guitar lessons with Jaco Pastorius. We've even included a few scans of actual pages of Jaco's personal practice book – in his own handwriting – for the ultimate personal Jaco experience. The accompanying CD includes audio tracks of all the examples in the book. The song list includes: Chromatic Fantasy; Continuum; Donna Lee; Havona; Opus Pocus; Portrait of Tracy; Teen Town and more.

Plan B's second studio album already features two top ten singles. Taking on the persona of Strickland Banks, Plan B (aka Ben Drew) weaves stories that suggest what will come in the film of the same title due for release later in 2010.Influences are drawn from more than his London Grime roots, with a strong nod towards Motown, with a voice somewhere between Marvin Gaye and Jamie Lidell.Far more radio-friendly than his debut release, the songs are catchy and melodic, and will surely be a pleasure to play and sing.

A compilation of Soul and Soul-influenced music, ranging from such classics as Stand By Me and Marvin Gaye's Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) to some surprising modern gems like Portishead's Glory Box and Duffy's Mercy. In the late 1950's black American music started to fuse the spiritual passion of gospel singing with the gritty sexual drive of rhythm 'n' blues. The result was called soul, Ray Charles was its early pioneer, and so this year-by-year soul collection kicks off with his classic 1959 call-and-response song, What'd I Say.James Brown, Otis Redding, Solomon Burke and Aretha Franklin all carried soul into the golden period of the 1960's and from then on the genre would be a permanent fixture in the international pop music landscape.So... get ready to enjoy 50 years of pure soul, the electrifying musical hybrid that never went out of fashion!

Featuring 20 of Alicia Keys' best-known songs from her four huge albums, faithfully transcribed for Voice, Piano and Guitar.Throughout her career, Keys has won numerous awards and has sold over 14 million albums in the United States and 30 million worldwide, establishing herself as one of the best-selling artists of her time.

Details the history of funk, then teaches guitarists and bassists lessons and exercises in the styles of the pros. All of the greats get their due, including James Brown, Sly Stone, Parliament/Funkadelic, Kool & the Gang, the Isley Brothers, Average White Band, Prince, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and others.The accompanying CD contains all of the musical examples, and a funk glossary lays out the lingo. Hardcover, with spiral binding.

This Grammy-winning soulster is the only non-Beatle to receive artist billing on a Beatles song (Get Back).Preston collaborated with some of the greatest names in the music industry, including the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Nat King Cole, Little Richard, Eric Burdon, Ray Charles, George Harrison, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Sam Cooke, King Curtis, Sammy David Jr., Sly Stone, Aretha Franklin, the Jackson 5, Quincy Jones, Richie Sambora, and Red Hot Chili Peppers.This collection features that tune and thirteen more of his best.

All sixteen songs from the chart-topping, Grammy-nominated eighth album from the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul. Includes the hits Just Fine and Work That.

Jerry Barnes, Bassist for Roberta Flack, Chaka Khan, Whitney Houston and others, shows you twenty-seven of the ultimate funk/R&B Bass patterns in this lesson filmed in 1999.He covers classic patterns from the 1960s to '80s, plus exciting performances with Bass, Drums and a full band.Includes a lesson booklet with complete transcriptions with tab.

Learn deep funk/R&B Guitar!These hands-on exercises, licks, and technical discussions will help you play in the style of Kool and the Gang, Prince, James Brown, Sly and the Family Stone, Jimi Hendrix, Curtis Mayfield, Soulive, and other great artists, spanning from old school to contemporary funk/R&B grooves.The CD features demonstration and practice tracks, played by the Boston-based R&B/funk group Thaddeus Hogarth Band.Guitar tablature, fretboard diagrams, and traditional notation are included.You'll learn to:Play lead lines and build solosUnderstand and use scales over funk/R&B harmoniesCreate rhythm-Guitar parts that support funk/R&B groovesBend strings to expand your palette of scales, harmonies, and ornamentation and much more!