Guitar Music & Song Books
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!
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.
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 heartedillustrations by Peter Nuttall and Gerald Garcia are another attractive feature of the series.
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.
A comprehensive collection of nearly 50 Bluegrass standards expertly arranged for Piano, Vocal and Guitar.
The first piano/vocal/guitar collection from this Blues legend.
My First Blues Guitar Picking Songs is the perfect primer for anyone interested in learning blues guitar played with a pick.
Over 60 songs from the pen of one of this generation's most distinct and eloquent voices.
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.
Whether you play rock, blues, Jazz, Country or any other style the correct chord information is contained in this essential guide.
101 excellent traditional dance tunes that, over the years, have been popular in the North-West of England. However, The tunes, were chosen and the settings were derived mainly from manuscripts to be found on The Village Music Project website, along with numerous traditional music books. All are listed inside. The tunes are relatively easy for the average player, are suitable for every instrument associated with traditional music and fall within the range of the D tin whistle, concert flute and D/G melodeon.
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.
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.
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'.
Today's top praise songs scored in notation and tab for easy to play fingerstyle guitar. Songs include Sanctuary, As the Deer, Give Thanks, Lord, Reign in Me, Draw Me Close and many more. A companion CD is included. On the CD each piece is played twice, once as a guitar solo with accompaniment and again as a back-up track so the guitarist may practice the piece and use in a worship setting: ideal for small group or church performance.
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!