Afro-Caribbean Grooves for Drumset - Over 100 rhythms from a dozen Caribbean countries arranged for drumset, including CD with both audio and visual files. In English and French. Endorsed by Peter Erskine & Horacio Hernandez.
All-Jazz Real Book - Original compositions by most of the great contemporary and bebop jazz composers - Miles, Bill Evans, Brecker, Scofield, Jobim, Trane, etc., including a free CD!
Best of Sher Music Co. Real Books - A collection of over 100 of the most well-known tunes selected from all the Sher Music fake books.
Blues Scales by Dan Greenblatt - only book ever published showing the beginning jazz soloist how to improvise a real solo using only scales, the Major and Minor Blues Scales.
Book Indices - View indices of The World's Greatest Fakebook, The Latin Real Book, The All-Jazz Real Book, The New Real Books, The Real Easy Books, The Standards Real Book and The European Real Book.
Conga Drummer's Guidebook by Michael Spiro - only book on the market for intermediate to advanced conga drummers, showing not just what to play but how to make it feel like the pros.
Digital Book CDs - The Sher Music website gives a list of digital books and a list of outlets where they can be obtained. Free downloads of the CDs that accompany the books that have an audio component are also available at Legal Digital Sher Music Books
Digital Real Book - Over 800 downloadable charts from Sher Music's world-famous fake books.
Essential Grooves - "Essential Grooves for Writing, Performing and Producing Contemporary Music" features 41 different rhythm section grooves for every style from funk to hip hop to jazz to salsa. Multi-track DVD and audio included to play-along with, loop, or use as the foundation for creating original grooves.
European Real Book - A collection of songs by many of Europe's greatest contemporary jazz composers - Kenny Wheeler, Michel Petrucciani, Claus Ogerman, Tim Garland, etc.
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Foreign Distributors - List of overseas distributors of Sher Music Co. jazz and Latin music books.
Forward Motion by Hal Galper - A landmark book on how to play jazz so that the phrasing swings, i.e. how to create forward motion in your solo lines.
Foundation Exercises For Bass - Foundation Exercises For Bass by Chuck Sher. A complete method book for learning all the fundamentals of bass playing needed for any style of music. Endorsed by Steve Swallow, Marc Johnson, etc.
Improvisor's Bass Method by Chuck Sher - Bass improvisations book, filled with information and exercises on all aspects of bass playing, for both acoustic and electric bass.
Jazz Guitar Voicings: Vol 1 The Drop 2 Book - Jazz Guitar Voicings: The Drop 2 Book by Randy Vincent. A thorough look at how to play full, chordal melodies in the style of Joe Pass, Jim Hall, Wes Montgomery, etc, using "drop 2" voicings. With 2 CDs. Endorsed by Julian Lage, John Stowell, etc.
Jazz Singer's Guidebook - Witty, engaging and comprehensive, The Jazz Singer's Guidebook is the first in-depth course in jazz harmony and scat singing for the serious vocalist ever published.
Jazz Solos of Chick Corea - Many of Chick Corea's best solos transcribed for any instrument (single melody line only, not complete piano scores).
Jazz Theory Book by Mark Levine - best-selling jazz theory book ever published, simply because it is the best. Used in universities world-wide and translated into 5 languages.
Latin Bass Book: A Practical Guide - Only comprehensive bass book ever published on how to create bass lines in Afro-Cuban, Brazilian & South American styles - with 3 CDs!
Latin Real Book - Contemporary and classic salsa, latin jazz and Brazilian music arrangements, exactly as recorded, to help your band play in authentic Latin styles.
Latin Real Book Sampler CD - 12 of the original recordings of tunes in The Latin Real Book re-issued - by the original artists.
Latin Real Easy Book - Salsa/Afro-Cuban, Brazilian music and Latin jazz charts presented in "Real Easy" format, with educational material tailored for each tune.
Legal Digital Sher Music Books - Sher Music Co. now has legal digital versions of Mark Levine's "The Jazz Theory Book" and many other books, for use with the iPad, Kindle and other digital readers.
Line Games - An In-Depth Study of Single-Note Lines for Guitar by Randy Vincent is full of practical and inspiring approaches to creating jazz solos on guitar - many with fingerings and string selection included.
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Metaphors For The Musician by Randy Halberstadt - This practical and enlightening book will help any jazz player or vocalist look at music with new eyes - music theory, but with a human touch.
Method for Chromatic Harmonica by Max De Aloe - Method for Chromatic Harmonica by Max De Aloe (endorsed by Toots Thielemans) is the first book to fully treat the chromatic harmonica as a legitimate instrument, with scale studies in every key, arpeggios exercises, rhythmic and melodic fluency studies, and a great play-along CD too.
Real Easy Book - Vol. 1: Tunes for Beginning Improvisers - Designed for high school or even middle school jazz combos, The Real Easy Book features simple jazz tunes and all the instructional material a teacher needs for each tune.
Real Easy Book: Vol. 3 - Classroom-friendly fake book featuring easy tunes from each era of jazz, plus history text on the evolution of the music.
Real Easy Ear Training Book - The most comprehensive, practical guide ever published on how to hear the harmonic movement of chords in any style of music, by the co-chair of Berklee College of Music Ear Training Department.
Serious Jazz Practice Book by Barry Finnerty - A jazz version of Slonimsky's Thesaurus, which gives the reader hundreds and hundreds of cool patterns to play on the scales, chords and intervals that make up jazz songs.
Standards Real Book - Almost 600 pages of jazz standard transcriptions, don't go to the gig without it.
The Real Cool Book - The Real 'Cool' Book is the only collection of transcribed West Coast, 1950s 'cool jazz' charts for five-horn jazz octet ever published by Gerry Mulligan, Miles Davis, Shorty Rogers, Gil Evans, Lennie Niehuas, etc.
Three-note Voicings and Beyond - "Three-Note Voicings and Beyond" is a thorough study of how to construct and use these crucial jazz guitar voicings. Glowing endorsements from Pat Metheny, Mike Stern, Ben Monder and others.
True Cuban Bass by Carlos Del Puerto & Silvio Vergara - first great Afro-Cuban bass book, written by Irakere's Carlos del Puerto, with 2 CDs of Carlos demonstrating the ideas &/or historical Cuban recordings, with analysis.
Tunes Search - Search indices of The World's Greatest Fakebook, The Latin Real Book, The All-Jazz Real Book, The New Real Books, The Real Easy Books and The Standards Real Book.
World's Greatest Fake Book - Sher Music Co.'s first fake book with tunes by Bill Evans, Miles, Coltrane, Weather Report, the Yellowjackets, Scofield, etc. etc.
Yellowjackets Songbook - 20 of the best Yellowjackets songs with separate books for each player. Endorsed by Russ Ferrante.
