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Music Education Series:

Physical Books, CDs and CDRoms can

 be found below.  Our books are also

available as digital downloads

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NEW RELEASES!

NEW! Direct Application Ear Training
Apply ear training directly to music.  This new series of books will help you move your ear training skills from a "Clinical" environment found in most ear training books to a "real music" situation.  Finally a fun way to do ear training!

NEW! Perfect Pitch Ear Training
Develop your ability to recognize any pitch without any reference.  Also highly recommended for students working with 2 note ear training.

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NEW! IN CONJUNCTION WITH TRUEFIRE.COM!! NEW!
Guitar Physiology:  One of the most important courses I've ever put together! This is a must own for anyone who plays guitar.  This course will help you learn and play faster.  If you have repetitive stress injuries associated with playing the guitar this will help you immensely. 

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NEW! Secondary Dominants Direct Ear Training Application
This book helps you apply contextual ear training to real musical situations by apply targeted singing and playing exercises to specific chord progressions.   This will help you hear melodic minor scales in a "one" key environment.

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BEGINNING JAZZ GUITAR COURSE WITH TRUEFIRE.COM
Jazz Guitar for Beginners.  An excellent way to introduce your guitar playing to the world of jazz.

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CD ROM IN CONJUNCTION WITH TRUEFIRE.COM
TOTAL MODAL    Exploring the essential 19 modes and how to use them when improvising and composing.  Arguably this most complete look at the 19 most used modes in improvisation.  Also contains jam tracks for every scale type.

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Composition Books


MY MUSIC: Explorations in the Application of 12 Tone Techniques to Jazz Composition and Improvisation


Books For Guitarists


The Essentials: Chord Charts, Scales, and Lead Patterns for Guitar

1st Steps for a Beginning Guitarist: Chords and Chord Progressions for Guitar

Chord Workbook for Guitar: Volume One
Chord Workbook for Guitar: Volume Two

Comping Styles for Guitar Volume Two: Funk

Music Theory Workbook for Guitar: Volume One
Music Theory Workbook for Guitar: Volume Two

Right Hand Technique

Single String Studies: Volume One
Single String Studies: Volume Two

Guitar Clinic

Basic Chord Voicings for Guitar


New York Guitar Method

New York Guitar Method Primer Book One

New York Guitar Method Primer Book Two
New York Guitar Method Primer Ensemble Book 2

New York Guitar Method Volume One
New York Guitar Method Ensemble Book One

New York Guitar Method Volume Two
New York Guitar Method Ensemble Book Two


Books For Classical Guitarists

Single String Studies for Classical Guitar


Books for Bass Guitarists


Jazz And Blues Bass Lines

Comping Styles for Bass Volume Two: Funk

Single String Studies: Volume One Bass Clef
Single String Studies: Volume Two Bass Clef

Single String Studies for 5-String Bass Guitar
Single String Studies for 6-String Bass Guitar


Books For Instrumentalists

Essential Scales: Twenty Two Indispensable Contemporary Modes

Chord Progressions Volume One

Set Theory for Improvisation Ensemble Method: Hexatonic 027 027
Set Theory for Improvisation Ensemble Method: Hexatonic 027 016

Sonic Resource Guide

Time Transformation

Rhythmic Studies for All Instruments Volume One

Sight Reading Solved Intermediate Level

Music Theory Workbook for All Instruments Volume One: Chord and Interval Construction


Books For Time Studies


Rhythms: Volume One
Rhythms: Volume Two
Rhythms: Volume Three
Rhythms: Volume Four
Rhythms: Volume Five

Odd Meters

Rhythm Primer
Rhythm Primer Volume Two

Independence: Volume One

Contemporary Rhythms: Volume 1
Contemporary Rhythms: Volume 2

A Big Metronome

Doing Time with the Blues: Volume 1
Doing Time with the Blues: Volume 2

Doing Time with 32 Bars: Volume 1
Doing Time with 32 Bars: Volume 2


Books For Pianists


Jazz Piano Vocabulary Volume 1 The Major Scale
Jazz Piano Vocabulary Volume 2 The Dorian Mode
Jazz Piano Vocabulary Volume 3 The Phrygian Mode
Jazz Piano Vocabulary Volume 4 The Lydian Mode
Jazz Piano Vocabulary Volume 5 The Mixolydian Mode

Many of these books have audio files which accompany each exercise. These files are in a midifile format. We first recommend using GarageBand from Apple as an excellent program to play midifiles.  We also recommend visiting the following websites to find the most suitable midifile player for your computer.

Harmony Central (for Windows)
Harmony Central (for Mac)
Sweet MIDI Player for Mac
Mac OSX 10.2 users may also use: Mighty Midi