Music & Song Books by Instrument

This book provides beginning banjo players with easy streamlined arrangements of 40 popular songs. Learn the basics of clawhammer style, strum and sing along, or pick the melody lines. Arrangements are a combo of tab, standard notation, chord grids and lyrics selected and prepared by renowned banjo guru, Fred Sokolow. Songs include: Ballad of Jed Clampett (Flatt & Scruggs) · Blue Moon of Kentucky (Bill Monroe) · Cold Rain and Snow (Grateful Dead)· Folsom Prison Blues (Johnny Cash) · Freight Train (Elizabeth Cotten) · Friend of the Devil (Grateful Dead) · Gentle on My Mind (Glen Campbell) · Ho Hey (The Lumineers) · I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow (Soggy Bottom Boys) · I Saw the Light (Traditional) · I Walk the Line (Johnny Cash) · Jambalaya (On the Bayou) (Hank Williams) · The Long Black Veil (Lefty Frizzell) · Mama Tried (Merle Haggard) · The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (The Band) · Puff the Magic Dragon (Peter Paul & Mary) · (Ghost) Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend) (Stan Jones) · Rocky Top (Osbourne Brothers) · Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms (Flatt & Scruggs) · Sweet Baby James (James Taylor) · Teach Your Children (Crosby Stills Nash & Young) · This Land Is Your Land (Woody Guthrie) · Tom Dooley (Kingston Trio) · The Weight (The Band) · Where Have All the Flowers Gone? (Pete Seeger) · Will the Circle Be Unbroken (The Carter Family) · You Are My Sunshine (Traditional) · and more.

A very popular collection of eight attractive pieces, drawn from many parts of the world. The pieces are suitable for the first year player who is ready to study music in two voices, and have been chosen for their musical value while remaining within strict technical limits. Younger players can use the book as a companion volume to Books 2 and 3 of The Guitarist’s Way.

Progressive Guitar Method For Young Beginners: Book 3 continues on from Method Book 2.

Progressive Guitar Method For Young Beginners: Book 3 extends the range to cover all the naturalnotes on all six strings in the open position and introduces Bb and another F# note. The C major scale is also explained.

Progressive Guitar Method For Young Beginners: Book 3 contains very easy arrangements of over 20 songs, using 6 simplified chord shapes (G, D7, C, G7, D and a new chord, F).

Songs include Humpty Dumpty, Polly Put the Kettle On and Diddle Diddle Dumpling.

Time Pieces for Guitar is a two-volume anthology of well-crafted and idiomatic arrangements of music from the 13th century to the present day. The pieces are presented chronologically within each volume and include the year in which they were written, so you get a sense of the different styles of music through time.

Time Pieces for Guitar is a two-volume anthology of well-crafted and idiomatic arrangements of music from the 13th century to the present day. The pieces are presented chronologically within each volume and include the year in which they were written, so you get a sense of the different styles of music through time.

This 4-volume teaching series continues to be enormously successful and popular. It aims to stimulate young players in particular, with all the new technical and musical ideas introduced one by one in a lucid and logical fashion.The light hearted illustrations by Peter Nuttall and Gerald Garcia are another attractive feature of the series.

Easy and accessible guitar solos with minimal demands on the left-hand so that the student can concentrate on a stable relaxed right tirando technique. Other techniques such as apoyando, tremolo, simple chords, tambora and rasgueado are also covered. This primer was planned to precede the 3-volume Solo Now! series, but is suitable as a stand-alone easy solo book.

The John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course is designed to present the easiest possible approach to piano playing, complete with an amusing family of characters and illustrations to help emphasize the information being taught.

Part one is devoted to developing fluency in reading by note, the biggest hurdle for most young children. The range is purposely limited. Only five notes up and five notes down from middle C are presented and time values do not go beyond crotchets. Each book of the course contains its own writing exercises, sight-reading drills, review work and later, technical studies. Accompaniments for teacher or parent are supplied with most of the examples.

In celebration of 120 years of Willis Music, the beloved characters in John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course Parts One - Four have been redrawn. The content remains the same, so, like countless others before them, today's young students can continue to benefit from the Easiest Courses's clear and simple approach.

JOHN THOMPSON’S MODERN COURSE FOR THE PIANO is the essential piano method for beginner students of all ages. Clearly written, fun and easy to understand, the MODERN COURSE is a proven favourite with piano teachers and students worldwide, with millions of copies sold. This new edition has updated diagrams, clearer musical notation and access to online backing and demonstration tracks via PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right - available exclusively from Hal Leonard. Coming from John Thompson, the author of still the most widely used Piano method in the world, you can be sure that quality and consistency will be the number-one feature of this tutorial for beginner Piano players. This First Grade Book provides an excellent start to your studies and includes:

- 50 easy-to-play pieces, - Online backing tracks and performances of each piece, - Helpful technical exercises, - Fundamental lessons on scales and music theory
Helping students to both think and feel musically, the Modern Course is the most effective and enjoyable way to learn the Piano.

A unique collection of trios for different combinations of recorders: 2 descants and treble, descant and 2 trebles, descant, treble and tenor. This selection features a wide range of well-known arrangements including spirituals,Latin American dances, classical favourites and a Christmas medley, plus original pieces by John Pitts. The Pupil's Book contains the recorder parts and chord symbols; the Teacher's Book provides optional piano accompaniment for all the pieces.

A unique collection of trios for different combinations of recorders: 2 descants and treble, descant and 2 trebles, descant, treble and tenor. This selection features a wide range of well-known arrangements including spirituals,Latin American dances, classical favourites and a Christmas medley, plus original pieces by John Pitts. The Pupil's Book contains the recorder parts and chord symbols - the Teacher's Book provides optional piano accompaniment for all the pieces.

Break out of the bluegrass mode and expand your horizons with this collection of 20 famous classical melodies arranged for three-finger style 5-string banjo. Each piece is written in banjo tab and includes rhythm notation, chord symbols and right hand fingerings. Works include: Air on the G String (Bach) · Ave Maria (Schubert) · Ave Maria (Gounod) · Canon in D (Pachelbel) · Für Elise (Beethoven) · In the Hall of the Mountain King (Grieg) · Ode to Joy (Beethoven) · Pomp and Circumstance (Elgar) · Spring (Vivaldi) · Theme from Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky) · and more!

The Banjo Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily with incredible backing tracks to help you sound like a bona fide pro! Just follow the banjo tab, listen to the demo track on the CD to hear how the banjo should sound, and then play along with the separate backing tracks. The CD is playable on any CD player and also is enhanced so Mac and PC users can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing the pitch! Each Banjo Play-Along pack features eight cream of the crop songs. This special volume also includes extensive performance notes for all the songs. The songs are arranged and recorded by renown clawhammer banjoist Michael Miles and up-picking banjoist Mike Kropp. Songs include: Blue Skies · Get up and Go · If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song) · Kisses Sweeter Than Wine · Mbube (Wimoweh) · Sailing Down My Golden River · Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season) · We Shall Overcome.

Another 200 tunes from England, Ireland and Scotland with chords from the vast collection of Peter Kennedy, many unavailable elsewhere. Again, all the tunes are in a single time signature, this time 6/8. You will discover a hoard of uncommon traditional tunes in this book. Once again, these tunes are for all musicians.

The Ukulele Playlist: Folk features over 40 folk songs and sea shanties, specially arranged for Ukulele.

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Northumbrian Pipers Society - The Northumbrian Pipers Duet Book

USED. In excellent condition.

113 British traditional dance tunes with guitar chords.

The purpose of this collection is to acquaint the newcomer to folk dance music with a selection of good tunes chosen from a variety of the most common rhythms used in the British Isles. They are all well tried tunes, many of them as popular now as they were when used by traditional musicians for the old village dances.

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The complete compositions of Jack Armstrong and a selection from the repertoire of duets which he played with Patricia Jennings 

25 top tunes for the holidays in standard G-C-E-A tuning for ukulele, including: Blue Christmas · Christmas Time Is Here · Frosty the Snow Man · Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas · I'll Be Home for Christmas · The Little Drummer Boy · The Most Wonderful Time of the Year · Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer · Silver Bells · White Christmas · and more.

Shamrocks, shillelaghs and shenanigans ... they are all here in this collection of 55 fabulous Irish favorites! Each song is specifically arranged for the ukulele, with the melody in both standard notation and easy-to-read tab. Includes: An Irish Lullaby · The Band Played On · Cockles and Mussels · Danny Boy · The Irish Rover · McNamara's Band · Peg O' My Heart · The Rose of Tralee · and dozens more.

A collection of 120 melodies meticulously transcribed from recordings by the masters of the klezmer style, including Dave Tarras, Naftule Brandwine, Abe Schwartz and many more. Written in standard notation for C instruments, this book includes chordal accompaniment, program notes for each piece, and interviews with master klezmer musician Andy Statman and ethnomusicologist Dr. Walter Zev Feldman.

Following the success of 'Irish Fiddle Solos' and 'English Fiddle Tunes', Pete Cooper's new book contains a rich selection of tunes from many Eastern European countries including Poland, Ukraine, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Macedonia, and pieces from the Klezmer tradition. There are 80 tunes in a variety of styles: mazurkas, polkas, kolomyikas, freylekhs, horas, csárdás, legenyes, sîrbas, rucenitsas, kopanitsas, etc. The material is wide-ranging in complexity, including very simple pieces as well as many more challenging tunes requiring intermediate to advanced technique. The introduction provides explanations of rhythms, scales, modes, and notes on the individual tunes. As with many other books in the series, there are MP3 files that can be downloaded for free, with all the pieces performed by Pete Cooper.

The full range of traditional fiddle repertoire is now at your fingertips! Using these generous collections, you can create your own ceilidh, barn dance, jazz club or Sarajevo street-café. Some of this music is familiar, some more exotic, but all of it is absolutely authentic, faithfully arranged and, above all, hugely enjoyable. Each title in the series is available in two formats: the Violin Edition (with an optional easy violin part and guitar chords); or the Complete Edition, which also includes both keyboard and violin accompaniments. Either format is hugely flexible, which means the music can be played as solos, duets or trios as well as with larger ensembles. Edward Huws Jones has travelled extensively researching fiddle-playing traditions. In each book he explains the background of the particular musical style, giving his own suggestions for a lively performance.

Unlock the joy of Clawhammer strumming with this latest addition to the First 50 series! Whether you're a beginner or seasoned strummer, this book offers a blend of traditional, folk, pop, country, rock, and bluegrass favorites. Learn the essentials with a detailed clawhammer lesson by renowned ukulele educator Lil' Rev, or jump right in and enjoy clear arrangements with standard notation, tab, lyrics, and chord diagrams. Transform your playing and let the clawhammer strum shine! Songs include: Ain't No Sunshine · Ballad of Jed Clampett · Blowin' in the Wind · The Crawdad Song · Folsom Prison Blues · The House of the Rising Sun · Keep on the Sunny Side · Oh! Susanna · Runnin' Down a Dream · Teach Your Children · Wagon Wheel · You've Got to Hide Your Love Away · and more!