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Jim Loessberg's C6th Pedal Steel Guitar Courses with CDs (sold individually)
Each course includes an audio CD, printed tablature, and chord charts. Descriptions below:
- All Of Me - A medium-tempo jazz standard, taught as a chord melody. A complete solo and the basic chords are included. Key: C
- All The Things You Are - A slow-to medium tempo jazz standard, taught as a chord melody. Key: Ab
- Au Privave - A medium/up-tempo bebop jazz tune by Charlie Parker, taught as a single-string melody. This tune is a variation on the 12-bar blues progression in the key of F. The basic chords are included.
- Billie's Bounce / Now’s The Time - Two slow-to-medium-tempo bebop standards by Charlie Parker, taught as single-string melodies. These tunes are based on the 12-bar blues progression in the key of F. The basic chords and some chord substitution ideas are included.
- Blues For Alice - A medium-tempo bebop tune by Charlie Parker, taught as a single-string melody. This tune is based on a variation of the 12-bar blues progression in the key of F.
- Body And Soul - A standard jazz ballad, taught as a chord melody. Key: Db
- Cherokee - An up-tempo jazz standard, taught as a chord melody. Key: Bb
- Dewey Square - A medium/up-tempo bebop jazz tune by Charlie Parker, taught as a single-string melody. The basic chords are included. Key: Eb
- Donna Lee - An up-tempo bebop jazz standard by Charlie Parker, taught as a single-string melody. This tune is based roughly on the chord changes to Back Home Again In Indiana. The basic chords and some chord substitution ideas are included. Key: Ab
- Four - An up-tempo bebop jazz standard by Miles Davis, taught as a single-string melody with occasional chord punctuation. The basic chords and some chord substitution ideas are included. Key: Eb
- Groovin’ High - A medium/up-tempo bebop jazz tune by Dizzy Gillespie, taught as a single-string melody. The basic chords are included. Key: Eb
- Here’s That Rainy Day - A standard jazz ballad, taught as a chord melody. Key: F
- Hold It - A 12-bar blues tune in C made famous by Buddy Emmons. This CD features the melody, basic chords, a second set of chords for backing up the soloists, some chord substitutions and some Buddy Emmons type variations for the melody. The CD contains a lot of information and runs almost 45 minutes, a little longer than the usual 30-minute CDs.
- Look For The Silver Lining - A slow-to-medium tempo jazz tune similar to the Chet Baker version taught a chord melody. Key: Eb
- Misty - A standard jazz ballad, taught as a chord melody. Key: Eb
- Move - An up-tempo bebop jazz standard, taught as a single-string melody. The basic chords are included. Key: Bb
- My Funny Valentine - A standard jazz ballad, taught as a chord melody. Key: C minor
- My Little Suede Shoes - A simple bossa nova tune by Charlie Parker. The basic chords are included. Key: EB
- On Green Dolphin Street - A medium tempo jazz standard, taught as a chord melody. Key: Eb
- Ornithology - An up-tempo bebop jazz tune by Charlie Parker, taught as a single-string melody. The chord changes are similar to How High The Moon. The basic chords and some chord substitution ideas are included. Key: G
- Perhaps / Cheryl - Two medium-tempo bebop tunes by Charlie Parker, taught as single-string melodies. These tunes are based on the 12-bar blues progression, in the key of C. The basic chords are included.
- Raisin’ The Dickens - An up-tempo jazz steel guitar classic by Buddy Emmons, arranged like the version on the Buddy Emmons, Emmons Guitar Company “Black Album”. Key: D
- Satin Doll - A medium-tempo Big Band jazz standard by Duke Ellington, taught as a chord melody. Key: C
- Scrapple From The Apple - A medium/up-tempo bebop jazz standard by Charlie Parker, taught as a single-string melody. The basic chords and chord substitution ideas are included. Key: F
- Secret Love - A medium tempo jazz standard, taught as a chord melody. Key: Eb
- Stella By Starlight - A medium-tempo standard jazz ballad taught as a chord melody. Key: Bb
- Straight, No Chaser - A medium-to-up-tempo jazz standard based on the 12-bar blues progression in the key of F. Two complete solos are included as well as the basic chords.
- Take The ‘A’ Train - A medium-tempo Big Band jazz standard taught as a single-string melody. The basic chords are included. Key: C
- The Girl From Ipanema - A bossa nova jazz standard, taught as a chord melody. Key: F
- The Preacher - A medium-tempo jazz standard, taught as a single-string melody. A complete solo and the basic chords are included. Key: F
- There Will Never Be Another You - A medium tempo jazz standard, taught as a single-string melody for the first half of the tune and chord melody for the second half of the tune. The basic chords are given for the entire tune. Key: Eb
- The Shadow Of Your Smile - A bossa nova jazz standard, taught as a chord melody. Key: G
- Thriving On A Riff - An up-tempo bebop jazz standard by Charlie Parker, taught as a single-string melody. The chord changes are based on the tune I’ve Got Rhythm. The basic chords and many chord substitution ideas are included. Key: Bb
- Watch What Happens - A Brazilian bossa nova tune, taught as a single-string/chord melody. The chords are included for the entire tune. Key: Eb
- Wave - A bossa nova tune taught as a chord melody. Key: D
- Witchcraft - A medium-tempo jazz standard, taught as a chord melody. Key: F
- Yardbird Suite - A medium/up-tempo bebop jazz tune by Charlie Parker, taught as a single-string/chord melody. The basic chords are included. Key: C
- A Dozen C6th Intros And Solos - A dozen intros and solos I played on albums like Dugg Collins' Sounds Like Texas, Curtis Potter's Walking On New Grass, Dottie Jack's I Can't See Texas From Here, etc.
- 12 More C6th Solos - 12 solos that Jim Loessberg played on albums like Tommy Hooker's Texas Honky Tonk Favorites, Benny Kothmann's Swinging Half Way To Heaven, George Hamilton IV's In The Heart Of Texas, etc.