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William Leavitt (musician)
American jazz musician
William "Bill" G. Leavitt (October 4, 1926 – November 4, 1990) was an American jazz guitarist and arranger best known for his long series of guitar instruction books and for developing a related curriculum at Berklee College of Music as chair of the guitar department.[1]
Method books
Leavitt's books contain no guitar tablature and consist only of standard notation and chord symbols with occasionally written-in fingering numbers, string numbers, and position numerals.
William leavitt artist biography
They range in level from the beginning reader to the professional.
Emphasis is placed on using a guitar pick, rather than a fingerstyle approach. At the time, although many players were using picks, very few college-level educational materials existed that were specifically designed with the pick-style in mind.
With the exception of Classical Studies for Pick-Style Guitar, all of Leavitt's published studies are originals. This differs from many