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Frank is a prolific instructor and educator and has a variety of materials for students to work with ranging from interactive video software and DVDs. Check out his products below:
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Interactive Video Courses | Books with CDs | DVDs | eBooks
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 50 Jazz Licks You Must Know
by Frank Vignola (TrueFire)
After mastering 50 Jazz Guitar Licks You MUST Know, you’ll have the knowledge to deliver powerful, evocative solos and improvisations within a broad range of jazz guitar style, from bossanova to blues, bebop to swing, funk to Gypsy jazz – your newfound knowledge will turn heads from the moment you take your first eight!
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 Gypsy Jazz Duets
by Frank Vignola and Andreas Öberg (TrueFire)
Gypsy Jazz Duets came together under an unusual and somewhat improvised set of circumstances. Yet, in the true spirit of "gypsy jazz," those improvisations gave birth to an extraordinary learning experience for any jazz guitarist, particularly for those with a passion for gypsy jazz guitar.
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 Inversion Excursion
by Frank Vignola (TrueFire)
It’s jam night. Someone calls out the inevitable A minor to D9 vamp. You take the first solo and light the joint up. Now it’s your turn to comp. First couple of choruses, no problem. Next few, your comp is getting a little tired but you're hanging in there. Now the soloist starts to ramp things up and you’re plumb out of ideas. Audience gets restless. Soloist glares. Gig is up. Been there? Yup, join the club.
Pack smart on your Inversion Excursion with 124 full-length video guitar lessons covering 62 sets of inversions, across all chord types and all string groups. 800 PDF pages of charts illustrate all 62 sets, in all 12 keys (see example chart) providing a handy reference for over 2,500 Root, 1st inversion, 2nd inversion and 3rd inversion chords.
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 Vamps, Jams and Improvisation
by Frank Vignola (TrueFire)
Guitar players love to jam. Call out a key, lay down a one or two chord vamp, the rhythm section kicks in and everybody starts to get their groove on - simple enough for seasoned players with monster improv chops and big ears. Not so easy for most intermediate and early advanced players who tend to run out of ideas and struggle communicating musically with the other members of the band.
Vamps, Jams and Improvisation illustrates dozens of approaches for developing solid melodic and rhythmic ideas for soloing or comping over one and two-chord vamps. You'll first learn how to think melodically and then how to best express those ideas, in a vamp or jam setting, with the other band members.
Available in Instant Download, DATA-DVD, DVD, & DATA-DVD + Instant Download
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 Groove Camp
by Frank Vignola and special guest Joe Ascione (TrueFire)
Groove is second nature for bass players and drummers, but most guitar players can be a bit groove-challenged when it comes to finding “the pocket” and staying there. If your rhythm skills, sense of timing and overall groove is somewhat lacking -- pack your bags and head to the shed with Groove Camp, an intensive study program focused solely on rhythm, timing and groove.
Your Groove Camp leader is the inimitable Frank Vignola. Frank is one of the most accomplished, multi-dimensional players walking the planet today. Monster player, composer and improviser, Frank plays proficiently in every genre, from jazz to bluegrass, and works with everyone and their brother. Frank’s pedigree is a mile long, but a quick Google will illustrate why there’s no one better qualified to help you find the pocket and stay there.
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BOOKS WITH CDS
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 Modern Guitar Method: Jammin' the Blues #1
by Frank Vignola (Mel Bay)
This volume in the Modern Guitar Method Supplements (formerly of the Frank Vignola play-along series) contains useful, well-structured solos for 11 choruses of the blues in the most common keys. Funky, bluesy, and bop oriented lines allow you to feel and hear what it is like to play a well-constructed solo. In the performance tempo recordings, the solo segments are often followed by numerous choruses featuring the rhythm section. This format allows for individual practice of the written solos or elaboration of original ideas with a "live" rhythm section. The solos provide an opportunity for the student to interact with the recording by copying ideas, building upon what has just been played, or practicing the chords to the piece.
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 Modern Guitar Method: Jammin' the Blues #3
by Frank Vignola (Mel Bay)
This volume in the Modern Guitar Method Supplement series (formerly known as the Frank Vignola play-along series) contains useful, well-structured solos for 16 chourses of the blues in the most common keys. Funky, bluesy, and bop oriented lines allow you to feel and hear what it is like to play a well-constructed solo. Some of these etudes have been recorded at both a slower practice tempo and at performance tempo. In the performance tempo renditions, the solo segments are often followed by numerous choruses featuring the rhythm section only. This format allows for individual practice of the written solos or elaboration of original ideas with a "live" rhythm section. Occasionally, during the "rhythm only" sections, Frank Vignola will play an improvised solo for four, 12 or 24 measures. These solos provide an opportunity for the student to interact with the recording by copying ideas, building upon what has just been played, or practicing the chords to the piece.
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 Modern Guitar Method: Rhythm Changes #1
by Frank Vignola (Mel Bay)
This Modern Guitar Method Supplement (formerly of the Frank Vignola Play-Along Series) contains solos which have been written and recorded over blues and rhythm changes in many different keys. Learn more about commonly used chord changes by having the opportunity to jam on them extensively. Some of these etudes have been recorded both at a slower tempo for learning and at performance tempo. The performance-tempo recordings of the solos include numerous choruses of rhythm section only. This allows for individual practice of the written solos or practice of original ideas with a "live" rhythm section. Occasionally, during these "rhythm only" sections, Frank Vignola will play an improvised solo for four, 12, or 24 measures. This allows the student to interact with the recording by copying ideas, building upon what has just been played, or practicing the chords to the piece. The Modern Guitar Method Supplement Blues and Rhythm Changes series gives any student of jazz guitar great ideas for playing solos over two of the most popular musical forms in jazz. It is recommended that the student be able to play the jazz standard "I Got Rhythm" before using this book/CD set.
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DVD INSTRUCTION
 50 Jazz Licks You Must Know
by Frank Vignola (TrueFire)
Top performing and recording artist, jazz master Frank Vignola presents his hand-picked collection of 50 jazz guitar licks you MUST know, all of them integral elements of the jazz guitar vocabulary for developing motifs and fueling original improvisations. Vignola’s range of phrases, concepts and techniques will help guide your development of the tools, techniques and vocabulary you’ll need to take your jazz guitar playing to the next level.
You’ll learn 50 of Frank’s favorite go-to licks from many of his own favorite guitarists, including Charlie Christian, Barney Kessel, Joe Pass, George Benson and Django Reinhardt. These phrases have been chosen because of their versatility and application in a multitude of different styles and contexts as motifs for original improvisations. Vignola covers Minor and Major 7th motifs, chromatics, ii-V7 lines, minor vamps, jazzed blues runs, shuffles, right and left-hand techniques, double-stops, melodic development and a useful variety of picking techniques.
After mastering 50 Jazz Guitar Licks You MUST Know, you’ll have the knowledge to deliver powerful, evocative solos and improvisations within a broad range of jazz guitar style, from bossanova to blues, bebop to swing, funk to Gypsy jazz – your newfound knowledge will turn heads from the moment you take your first eight!
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Inversion Excursion DVD
by Frank Vignola (Guitar Sherpa - TrueFire/Music Sales)
 Frank Vignola is one of the most multi-dimensional artists in the industry. A monster player and composer, Frank’s work with everyone from Les Paul to Donald Fagen make him the perfect guide for this intensive exploration of chord inversions.
Inversion Excursion will exponentially increase your chord, comping and rhythm pattern vocabulary. Instead of simply memorizing chord forms from a book, Inversion Excursion teaches you how to unleash chorus after chorus of fresh ideas by giving you a grip on the chord forms and then illustrating how to apply them in a musical context.
You’ll learn how to instantly pull out an endless variety of interesting voicings and rhythms to keep both the soloist and the audience engaged and motivated. You’ll learn hundreds of inversions up and down the neck, across all string groups, in all keys.
In this first volume, you’ll work through major chord inversions using video demonstrations and extensive charts (over 500 pages!) that illustrate root, first inversion, second inversion and third inversion forms. Unlike your typical chord book, you’ll play your way through the course within a musical context and learn how to apply the inversions with rhythmic ideas in virtually any style of music.
Over the course of your Inversion Excursion journey you'll develop a massive vocabulary of chords, patterns and applications that you can pull out when comping, arranging, composing and improvising. In short, you'll NEVER find yourself struggling to come up with something fresh and appropriate, if not downright dazzling.
Guitar Sherpa's innovative learning systems employ a hands-on approach where students "plays their way" through the curriculum rather than struggle through tedious theory and exercises. Learning tools include picture-in-a-picture video, practice rhythm tracks, charts and text guides.
Hands-On Learning Tools included with Inversion Excursion: Text Lesson Guide, Chord Charts, Practice Rhythm Tracks, Bonus Material. Secure PIN enclosed in DVD package for quick and secure download of learning tools.
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Vamps & James DVD
by Frank Vignola (Guitar Sherpa - TrueFire)
 Guitar players love to jam. Call out a key, lay down a one or two chord vamp, the rhythm section kicks in and everybody starts to get their groove on - simple enough for seasoned players with monster improv chops and big ears. Not so easy for most intermediate and early advanced players who tend to run out of ideas and struggle communicating musically with the other members of the band.
Vamps, Jams and Improvisation illustrates dozens of approaches for developing solid melodic and rhythmic ideas for soloing or comping over one and two-chord vamps. You'll first learn how to think melodically and then how to best express those ideas, in a vamp or jam setting, with the other band members.
Your vamp, jam and improvisation guide is the inimitable Frank Vignola. Frank is one of the most accomplished, multi-dimensional players walking the planet today. Monster player, composer and improviser, Frank’s pedigree is a mile long, a quick Google will illustrate why there’s no one better qualified to shape your jamming skills.
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FRANK VIGNOLA'S COMPLETE MEL BAY CATALOG LISTINGS
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EBOOKS-PLAYALONGS
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click here Frank's mp3/pdf play along's
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