Hi, welcome to palmermusic.com.au professional guitar player Bill Palmer's personal website.
Bill is an Australian guitar player, teacher and author based on the Gold Coast in Queensland.
For more info on what he's done and who he's played with (you'll be surprised) click on the
link above.
Bill regularly gigs about the place, you've probably seen him around somewhere, he may have even played at your wedding or a recent private function – check out the
link for more info.
If you're one of Bill's students or are interested in getting quality tuition check out the
link. Here you'll find current timetable's / programs and Bill's details should you wish to enquire re lessons.
Merchandise? Yes we have some of that too.
Bill recently completed his first book ‘Concepts of Jazz' Volume 1, you can check out an excerpt by clicking on the
link. Purchases can be made directly through www.conceptsofjazz.com.
Bored and looking for a little musical inspiration?
is a cool little link I have included that contains free technique exercises as well as manuscript and tablature and lots of other stuff – check it out and let me know what you think.
The
page is (surprise, surprise) links to other sites that I'm sure you'll find useful and informative.
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OUTLINES CD
By Bill Palmer Instrumental rock guitar music that straddles the line between rock, ambient and jazz. A fusion of rock stylings with the harmonic content from jazz orientated music all based around Bill's unique guitar voice.
All songs writted and arranged by Bill Palmer in Sydney Aust.
Bill Palmer | all electric, acoustic & bass guitars, keys & synth sounds and drum editing/programming.
TJ Helmerich | mixing, editing, mastering & production. Assistant engineered by R.I.T "summer class" of 2007. Mixed and Mastered in California USA 2007
CONCEPTS OF JAZZ Concepts of Jazz is now available for purchase online
from this site (merchandise link)
or from www.conceptsofjazz.com
The 2nd edition of Concepts of Jazz has just been released via E-BOOK!!
Announcing the 2nd Edition of 'Concepts of Jazz, for all musicians Volume 1'. This book is a self -help guide for musicians of an intermediate level and up looking to get into jazz based harmony.
”...just about the best we've seen in terms of demystifying the art of jazz and teaching the theory in easy-to-swallow mouthfuls..."
Australian Guitar Magazine August 2005
” Bill Palmer's book Concepts of Jazz has been hailed as one of the best in its field." Northern Beaches Weekender, Sydney Australia
The revised and updated 2nd edition has corrected some spelling, grammatical and layout errors and also re-worded and expanded some important concepts thereby making the volume more accessible and much easier to read. Approx 5 extra pages of text have been added in the process.
One of the criticisms of the first edition was that there was no accompanying CD for non-harmonic solo instruments to be able to “hear” the corresponding changes.
Rather than go ahead and print thousands of cd's and thereby drive the cost of the book up, we have opted instead to offer the notated examples within the book as a free audio and midi download from the website. The audio is in mp3 format and may be streamed or saved to disk. MIDI files can also be downloaded freely and may then be used for improvisation practice by playing them back through a host sequencer or sampling program. You don't have to purchase a copy of the book or enter a special serial number to access the download page - anyone can download and save these files.