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The music in this small collection of folk songs from America and the British Isles have an agelessness and familiarity that combine to make them accessible and enjoyable. They are presented here arranged to be played by a quartet of guitarists of beginning to intermediate ability, but are versatile and attractive enough to be useful as duets or trios by players of more experience.

This book's aim is to expose the bluegrass banjoist to the variety of tunings that can be employed in all styles of bluegrass music. It is my hope that it will offer something for every intermediate to advanced-level banjo picker.

THE HAL LEONARD GUITAR METHOD is designed for anyone just leaming to play acoustic or electric guitar. It is based on years of teaching guitar students of all ages, and it also reflects some of the best guitar teaching ideas from around the world.

This special edition includes customized photos and diagrams for the left-handed player.

Many of the devices and techniques used by "Cannonball" Adderley are covered in this text. In addition to the theory chapters, many melodic lines and phrases in the style of "Cannonball" Adderley are presented. All the lines have been transposed into one key and grouped by the harmonic background they can be played against. The accompanying play-along CD enables students to first practice the material in one key, and then master each line in all twelve keys, working around the circle of fourths.

These exercises are intended to help the serious musician internalize the vocabulary of music that comprises most jazz and classical genres today. They will not only enhance one's fluency with the various musical elements, but they will also help develop the ear, an important aspect that has been glaringly absent from many current pedagogical approaches. 

This book presents a selection of original 5-string banjo tunes that can be played by the beginning student familiar with basic chords in G tuning. The author introduces a variety of styles and banjo techniques including hammer-ons, pull-offs, string bending and slides - all in standard notation and banjo tab. Banjo chords are shown in diagram format and suggested chord changes for an accompaniment instrument are provided. With the exception of three frailing pieces, all selections employ the up-picking right-hand technique. A companion CD is included at the unbeatable Mel Bay Value Line price!

Steve Martin's latest CD, Rare Bird Alert, has received raves from critics, fans and players alike. His 13 songs and sparkling banjo solos, in both clawhammer and three-finger picking styles, are whimsical and fun-filled, always beautifully crafted and superbly played. This new book features tablature and lyrics, and Steve has added brief instructions for playing each tune. Songs: Rare Bird Alert * Yellow-Backed Fly * Best Love * Northern Island * Go Away, Stop, Turn Around, Come Back * Jubilation Day * More Bad Weather on the Way * You * The Great Remember (For Nancy) * Women Like to Slow Dance * Hide Behind a Rock * Atheists Don't Have No Songs * King Tut.

Step-by-step pictures take you from first day exercises to playing along with a backing track!  Absolute Beginners has been designed to tell you everything you need to know from the very first time you pick up your guitar.

Mel Bay Presents... The Original 'You can teach yourself Classic Guitar' a comprehensive book of instructions, chord charts, scales and more, everything you need to know to start playing Classical Guitar.

As you are undoubtedly already aware, society's preference for right-handedness runs deep. And nowhere has this been more true than in the field of guitar. In years past, left-handed players have had to adapt their technique to right-handed guitars, playing them upside down and "backwards." Thankfully, that is changing. Many guitar companies today routinely make left-handed versions.

This book is for players and parents who need a working knowledge of basic fiddle maintenance and routine adjustments. It is also for more ambitious do-it-yourselfers interested in experimenting with minor adjustments to their instrument setup.

This book is not for owners of valuable violins. Owners of valuable instruments should do nothing to their own instrument except daily maintenance and changing strings.

The ukulele is a small, guitar like instrument from Hawaii. It is fast becoming one of the most popular instruments in the world, with many pop stars using it in their music.

If you follow the songs and activities in this book you too will become a ukulele musician and maybe even a member of your school ukulele orchestra.

So come on, join the ukulele revolution!

A selection of hymns written in both standard notation and tablature for flatpicking guitar.

Mel bay and Warner Bros. Presents... Guitar Tabsongs/Popular Country for fingerstyle. This book contains: 14 Country Classics, Easy Arrangements for Fingerstyle Guitar and Standard Notation and Tablature.

The great sound of tenor banjo is a cornerstone of Dixieland and traditional jazz. Using classic favorites, Joe Carr teaches the basics of accompaniment, basic melody and the popular chord melody style. Chords and melody are combined to produce professional sounding solo arrangements. This book / CD combo includes play-along practice tracks that speed up the learning process. It doesn't get any easier! Also available as a book/ CD/ DVD set.

This is a selection of 5 pieces for solo guitar, dedicated to 6 great performers of the instrument. Each of these works reflects, for the most part, the rhythms and forms of Latin American dances.

This book is intended for players with limited or no jazz playing experience who wish to develop their own style of improvisation at an acceptable performance level while achieving personal musical goals. The challenge of playing more interesting and difficult progressions of the jazz standard repertoire requires a thorough knowledge of scales and chords. The three sections of this book build this knowledge by focusing on technical facility, chord knowledge, and improvisation styles. Theory topics covered include major and minor scales and arpeggios, blues scales, pentatonic scales, whole tone scales, diminished scales, the cycle of dominant 7th chords, balancing phrases, chord structures and substitutions, and turnarounds. Improvisation styles taught include embellishing a melody, the melodic line approach, the vertical (chordal) approach, and a combined approach. This edition is written entirely in the bass clef for string bass, trombone, electric bass, euphonium, and other bass clef instruments.

This volume in the Frank Vignola Play-Along Series contains nine solos which have been written and recorded over blues and rhythm changes in many different keys. One of the etudes has been recorded both at a slower tempo for practice and also at performance tempo. The performance-tempo recordings of the solos include numerous choruses of rhythm section only. This allows for individual practice of the written solos or practice of original ideas with a live rhythm section. Occasionally, during these rhythm only sections, Frank Vignola will play an improvised solo for four, 12, or 24 measures. This allows the student to interact with the recording by copying ideas, building upon what has just been played, or practicing the chords to the piece. The Frank Vignola Rhythm Changes series gives any student of jazz guitar great ideas for playing solos over one of the most popular musical forms in jazz. Written in notation and tablature.

Solo Solutions is a 3-step guideline for the Electric Guitar player who intends to develop his soloing skills. While the 1st step explains different playing techniques and stylistic devices, the 2nd step is dealing with lead Guitar related music theory and scales. The 3rd step combines the two first chapters with countless examples and suggestions on developing your own style.

This book features an exclusive hands-on approach, which makes it a great learning tool and a must for the modern Guitar player.

A delightful collection of chamber music by Jean Phillipe Rameau and Johan Helmich Roman arranged for four guitars. These seven dances vary in style and tempo and are uniquely interesting both harmonically and rhythmically. Parts range in difficulty from easy to moderate in the lower parts and moderate to more advanced in the first part. Pedagogically, these pieces will challenge and engage both high school and college students. Fingerings have been left out to allow students and directors to explore different possibilities. These dances will make a fine addition to an ensemble's recital program or gig repertoire. In standard notation only. Score and all guitar parts are included in the book. In addition the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th guitar parts are available as online downloads.

It is a challenge to arrange and play American fiddle tunes and Celtic melodies on the guitar. This set of lessons presents several approaches for the intermediate guitarist with 3 CDs containing 3 full hours of instruction. Written in notation and tablature. LESSON ONE: Dave Laibman's arrangement of ""Colored Aristocracy"" features a Chet Atkins approach. ""Midnight on the Water,"" a beautiful Texas waltz, was arranged by Duck Baker and features counterpoint lines and variations on the theme. ""The West Wind"" is an evocative Irish air played with a classical feel. LESSON TWO: American fiddle tunes: ""Boys, My Money's All Gone"" played in a Nashville style and ""Last of Callahan,"" an arrangement using a counterpoint bass line played against the melody. LESSON THREE: Fiddle tunes from Ireland and America: ""Rights of Man"" and ""Drunken Wagoner"" both played in a dropped D tuning (D A D G B E).

Born in 1956 in Moscow, guitarist Nikita Koshkin is one of Russia's leading composers, teachers and concert artists. This collection includes works from throughout his 30-year career as a composer including his three-movement Hispanic Suite, one of his earliest compositions. The other compositions included in this volume are: Pan, Tristan Playing the Lute, Romance, and a five-movement suite called The Ballads: Suite for Solo Guitar. Koshkin uses dropped-D tuning in several of these pieces and favors rhythmic variety and stylistic diversity. These intermediate to advanced compositions appear in standard notation only with suggested left-hand fingering and generous performance notes.

The classical guitar is at its best with music of smaller proportions that is personal, evocative, and imbued with opportunities for subtle, expressive nuances in performance. Like the piano it must stitch together discrete and fading notes into continuous melodies supported by a harmonic background. The joining of Grieg's music and the classical guitar seems to be a most obvious and fruitful endeavor. This collection presents transcriptions from Grieg's best known and loved piano works. They are of intermediate to early advanced difficulty, with detailed fingering indications and extensive notes about the transcriptions and performance suggestions for each piece. This wonderful music, so easily and elegantly translated to the guitar, has previously been overlooked by most guitarists. These arrangements show that the results of the combination is better than might be expected. Standard notation only.

Many of the devices and techniques used by "Cannonball" Adderley are covered in this text. In addition to the theory chapters, many melodic lines and phrases in the style of "Cannonball" Adderley are presented. All the lines have been transposed into one key and grouped by the harmonic background they can be played against. The accompanying play-along CD enables students to first practice the material in one key, and then master each line in all twelve keys, working around the circle of fourths.