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All products offer brilliant and clear presentation with music, tab, chord diagrams and text. Certain items offer CD back-up.
The laws that govern the physics and symmetry of movement and co-ordination
apply across the board to all guitar styles.
All the technical workouts will therefore produce great results for jazz
and rock players alike
1 Intermediate Pieces
"You'll Never Know" "All The Things You Are" "Autumn Leaves" "Paper Moon"
"Sunny Side of the Street" "The Way You Look Tonight" "Time after Time"
"When I fall in Love" "Yesterdays"
A selection of arrangements to challenge the intermediate
player who wishes to improve chord vocabulary and knowledge of substitution.
Price £18-00 + p&p
2 Blinding Speed DVD
The American music press have described Esmond as having “such astounding technique” and as being “technically formidable”. In “The Great Jazz Guitarists” Ivor Mairants writes of “a fingerboard technique second to none”.
Esmond is happy to share all the secrets of building incredible speed in a logical, structured, and managable way. How to work with total focus and how to best manage your practice time with focus on key issues and how to achieve astounding results in a record short time
Price £22 + p&p
3 Chromatic Workouts
Far from the clanking sounds of the acoustic and classical guitars, this is a mature approach to playing legato chromatic lines with a good electric sound, also with much speed technique applied. This package also takes a look at how chromatic passing notes are to be used in creative line playing.
Price £10 + p&p
4 Wes Blues and Block Chord Style
Esmond had the good fortune to see Wes Montgomery play twice and to meet him and talk to him at Ronnie Scotts’ Club in 1965 A riveting and uplifting experience described by Esmond’s Dad, Frank, as second only to seeing Django Reinhardt who he had seen in1937.
The Wes approach is probably the best approach for other stylists to find their way into the jazz guitar. And his blues style is totally great! Esmond’s approach encourages the break away from the stranglehold of the rigid pentatonic scale lines and explains the more mature jazz way of building phrases from arpeggiated lines with passing notes. Clearly explained and a total must for anyone who wanting to start authentic jazz guitar.
Price £15 + p&p
5 Kreutzer Violin Etude for Guitar
A great way to build speed, precision and virtuoso technique.
An updated way of putting this great music on to the guitar
Price £5 + p&p
6 Paganinni’s Motuo Perpetuo Part 1
Even more of a daunting challenge than item 5, this amazing workout is a sure and certain path to unbelievable dazzling speed, great phrasing and precision.
Price £10 + p&p
7 Party Pieces
"Skye Boat Song" "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" "Sunny Side of the Street"
"As Time Goes By" "House of the Rising
Sun" "Loch Lomond"
So when your granny comes round and says “play me something nice dear” – so what are you going to do? Play her heavy metal and Hendrix licks??? This is a great collection of well known and easy pieces which are a great way in to chord solo playing and to reaching a much wider audience as well as doing your “own thing.”
All made very easy with studio CD
Price £18-00+ p&p
8 Gems 3
Intermediate/Advanced. An amazing way to build speed and to play extended and altered lines over dominant chords. This is the first and only package of its kind ever to confront the main key issues of picking patterns and phraseology in order to achieve those fast legato sax lines that every one keeps telling you to do!
Backed up by an amazing studio CD with 87 I.D.Points(!!) so that you can
always return to your very last point of study. Each example is demonstrated
three times
Once slow and unaccompanied, then medium tempo with a backing track and finally
very fast with a backing track and at insane and crazy tempos – just to show
it can be done and that you can learn to do it too!
Price £25 + p&p