New Sher Music Books: Essential Grooves & Three-Note Voicings – Sher Music Co.

We are happy to release two new books at the beginning of 2011 and hope you find them to be useful in your pursuit of beauty.

1. Essential Grooves for Writing, Performing and Producing Contemporary Music

Written by three Berklee College of Music professors—Dan Moretti, Matthew Nicholl, and Oscar Stagnaro—this book is a very useful document for those needing stylistic templates across a wide range of contemporary genres. From soul to jazz to hip hop, Afro-Cuban, reggae, and more, each groove includes:

Fully written-out rhythm section parts
Cogent historical background
An audio CD to hear each groove
A multi-track DVD with isolated rhythm section tracks

Use it to loop the bass part, create your own play-alongs, and explore arranging and production ideas. Especially valuable for arrangers, producers, and writers of contemporary music—all for only $24.

**2. Three-Note Voicings and Beyond by Randy Vincent**

This follow-up to Jazz Guitar Voicings, Vol. 1 has received the best endorsements of any book we’ve ever published—from Pat Metheny, Jim Hall, Mike Stern, Ben Monder, and others. Their praise is well-earned.

This is the second book by veteran guitarist Randy Vincent for Sher Music Co., and he’s already deep into his third. These books are set to become the new standard reference series for serious jazz guitarists.

Randy is one of those rare birds (like Mark Levine) who is not only a great player, but also a master at clearly and thoroughly explaining the inner workings of jazz guitar.

Lots cooking in the Sher Music world for release later this year: