Guitar Music & Song Books
The latest instalment in Kate's songbook collection, this brand new book of written music (single line melodies and chord letter symbols) and lyrics containing songs from Kate’s 4 recent albums;
Make the Light,
Ghost,
Life in a Paper Boat &
Philosophers, Poets & Kings.
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A total of 44 songs from Kate’s repertoire.
You need only minimal playing skills and three chords--G, C, and D7--to accompany all the great songs in this innovative book. If you are just getting started, or if you are a "casual" player on a chording instrument, this is the perfect book for you. The book is absolutely bursting with a great variety of music: Old-time, bluegrass, gospel, Christmas, children's, Stephen Foster, British and Celtic, cowboy, blues, and more. Because melody and lyrics are provided with every song, singers will also enjoy this wonderful collection of the world's favorite songs. Truly a book of outstanding arrangements, made playable for folks who play for their own enjoyment. (Some of these songs, like "Dark Hollow" and "Way Downtown," are hard to find in print.) Guitar, uke, and five-string banjo diagrams are included for the three chords, along with tips on strumming and transposing tips for singers. An invaluable reference book for teachers and pros, too!
This fingerstyle guitar collection features 20 engaging lyrical tunes from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales plus three original pieces by accomplished guitarist, trumpeter and composer William A. Bay, president, and editor-in-chief at Mel Bay Publications. Tasked with writing intermediate-level arrangements in either standard or dropped-D tuning, guitarist/arranger Raymond Gonzalez displays uncommon music rethinking skills while preserving the plaintive and lilting nature of these enduring melodies. Unique to these settings, you will find sparse, open-chord harmonies accentuated by double hammer-ons and pull-offs, and the odd harmonic mixed with normal tones within a melodic line— all reminiscent of gentle waves washing up against a rocky island shore. Conceived to be played on either steel or nylon-string guitar, these pieces are written in both standard notation and tablature. Includes online access to the author’s own audio recordings.
A comprehensive collection of nearly 50 Bluegrass standards expertly arranged for Piano, Vocal and Guitar.
Featuring 28 well-known Christmas songs arranged for squareneck resonator guitar with chord symbols for an accompaniment instrument. Book contains chord diagrams for accompaniment guitar as well as common strum patterns to use for rhythm backup. All songs are arranged in standard notation and tablature for Dobro®.
My First Blues Guitar Picking Songs is the perfect primer for anyone interested in learning blues guitar played with a pick.
O'Carolan's best-loved harp tunes are notated in a contemporary style that makes them accessible to all instrumentalists. This ideal collection with accompanying audio lays bare 20 classic Irish compositions for melody and backing players using standard notation and chords. For all 5-string banjo players, fretting and picking-hand fingerings are included in the transcriptions which match the play-along tracks. This is Hanway's fourth collection demonstrating Celtic fingerstyle banjo in G tuning. It is part of a Celtic 5-string series that includes Mel Bay's Easy Irish and Celtic Tunes for 5-String Banjo: Best-Loved Jigs and Reels (2012) and Mel Bay's Easy Irish andCeltic Melodies for 5-String Banjo: Best-Loved Airs and Session Tunes (2013). Tom Hanway's pioneering work, Mel Bay's Complete Book of Irish & Celtic 5-String Banjo (1998), was acclaimed by Bluegrass Unlimited magazine (1999) "as 'the bible' for any 5-string player with an interest in this joyous music." The current collection breathes life into the Gaelic classical melodies of Ireland. Access to online audio download.
Rob MacKillop presents 20 wonderful fingerstyle blues arrangements and compositions in DADGAD tuning. The styles covered in this book include country blues, boogie woogie left-hand piano blues, early jazz blues, gut-bucket blues and modal blues. Great traditional songs are included such as St. James Infirmary Blues, St. Louis Blues, C. C. Rider and more, alongside 15 full-length studies. The book begins with easy arrangements, progressing to intermediate and more advanced ones - in short, these blues studies will improve your technique through playable 12-bar tunes. A wide array of chord and scale fingerings are also provided, including pentatonic minor and major scales, bluesscales, diminished arpeggios and scales, 7th chords, whole-tone scales and the super Locrian mode and much more! All the tunes presented have accompanying audio recorded by Rob MacKillop and are available to download.
The first piano/vocal/guitar collection from this Blues legend.
The term "set up" used by a professional guitar repairman can be re-read to mean "guitar adjustment" which is exactly what a set-up involves. All guitars from time to time need adjustment and often what is required is too minor to warrant taking your instrument to a professional. This book will guide you through what is required from the tiny adjustment to major repairs.
Hideo Kamamoto. Absolutely everything on the repair, set-up, restoration and construction of acoustic and electric guitars. Hundreds of illustrations. A must for every true guitarist.
Over 60 songs from the pen of one of this generation's most distinct and eloquent voices.
The Strum Together series enables players of five different instruments – or any combination of them – to “strum together” on dozens of great songs.
This new, easy-to-use format features melody, lyrics, and chord diagrams for five popular folk instruments: standard Ukulele, baritone Ukulele, Guitar, Mandolin, and Banjo.
Bert Transcribed presents 24 songs by legendary singer-songwriter and guitarist Bert Jansch. Each song has been
meticulously transcribed and annotated to detail every aspect of Bert Jansch’s groundbreaking style and technique.
Songs and music feaured in 'The Complete Guitar Player'. Includes 'Blowin In the Wind', 'hey Jude', 'Scarborough Fiar' and 'Wonderful Tonight'. 12 great songs in easy-to-play arrangements.
Eighty acoustic classics from the last twenty-five years, arranged for guitar and voice. Sing and play all your favourite hits with just a few simple chords, all arranged from the actual recordings. Includes songs by David Gray, Travis, Eels, Crowded House, Oasis, The Verve, Belle & Sebastian, Supergrass, Jeff Buckley, Nirvana, The Smiths, Beck, Elliott Smith, Coldplay, Stereophonics and Gomez.
13 classic songs from this popular country guitarist, arranged for piano, voice and guitar. Includes A Better Place • By the Time I Get to Phoenix • Country Boy (You Got Your Feet in L.A.) • Galveston • Gentle on My Mind • I'm Not Gonna Miss You • It's Only Make Believe • Reason to Believe • Rhinestone Cowboy • Southern Nights • True Grit • Try a Little Kindness and Wichita Lineman.
133 Songs from around the world including 'Auld Lang Syne', 'Danny Boy', 'Greensleeves', 'Hava Nagila', 'This Train'. Arranged for Easy Guitar.
Strum the chords and sing along with your favourite hits. All the songs are shown in their original keys complete with chords, strum patterns, melody and lyrics. Contains 35 songs including 'Black Velvet Band', 'Finnegan's Wake', 'The Irish Washerwoman', and 'Whiskey In The Jar'.
Reading music is a skill that all musicians should learn regardless of their instrument. This book is designed to eliminate the apprehension guitarists have in regards to reading music written in a variety of keys. In the firstfewpages, a number of musical symbols and terms are explained. This is followed by etudes and exercises written only in standard notation in the major keys of C, F, B flat, E flat, A flat, D flat, G, D, and A and the minor keysof A,D, G, C, F, B flat, E, B, and F sharp. Additional musical symbols and terms are gradually introduced throughout the practice pieces with helpful, clear explanations. Chord symbols and diagrams are provided forteacheraccompaniment.
The seventh in line of the Mel Bay/Warner collaboration offers 15 country favorites, new and old. All arranged for the beginning to intermediate flatpicking guitarist in standard notation and tablature.
These will beagreat addition to your collection: Chattahoochee, Don’t Rock the Jukebox, God Bless the U.S.A., Guitars, Cadillacs, Liza Jane, My Maria, Nothing’s Changed Here, South Side of Dixie, Take This Job and Shove It, Tempted,ThankGod I’m a Country Boy, There’s Your Trouble, This Time, A Thousand Miles from Nowhere and The Thunder Rolls.
Arrangers include John Harding, Larry McCabe, Joe Carr, Brad Davis, Dylan Schorer and DanBowden.
70 songs with lyrics, melody lines, and chord frames for standard ukulele, baritone ukulele, guitar, mandolin, and banjo. Enjoy strumming and singing these Beatles classics with all your buddies! A great resource for beginning stringed instrument players who are ready to experience the fun of making music together! Songs include: All You Need Is Love · Back in the U.S.S.R. · Birthday · Can't Buy Me Love · Come Together · Day Tripper · Drive My Car · Eight Days a Week · Eleanor Rigby · Get Back · Good Day Sunshine · Got to Get You into My Life · A Hard Day's Night · Help! · Here Comes the Sun · Hey Jude · I Saw Her Standing There · I Want to Hold Your Hand · In My Life · Let It Be · The Long and Winding Road · Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) · Paperback Writer · Revolution · Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band · She Loves You · Ticket to Ride · Twist and Shout · Yellow Submarine · Yesterday · and more!
- 1. A Walk on Winkfield Row
- 2. Adirondack Lullaby
- 3. Emerald City
- 4. Funeral March of a Marionette
- 5. Good Dog
- 6. I Knew It Was You
- 7. Kristina
- 8. Lady Bird
- 9. Life's Too Short (To be in a bad mood)
- 10. My Backyard
- 11. The Most Beautiful Sky
- 12. Tuesday Blues
- 13. Wheelbarrow Boogie