Guitar Music & Song Books
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!
- 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
Add to your repertoire with this collection of early jazz and swing standards! The companion CD features a two-guitar recording of each tune, and the book includes full guitar parts in standard notation and tab with chord diagrams, plus detailed notes on the song origins and arrangements. Includes 15 songs: After You've Gone · Avalon · Baby, Won't You Please Come Home · Ballin' the Jack · Hindustan · I Ain't Got Nobody (And Nobody Cares for Me) · Indiana (Back Home Again in Indiana) · Limehouse Blues · Poor Butterfly · Rose Room · Saint James Infirmary · St. Louis Blues · Tain't Nobody's Biz-ness If I Do · Till the Clouds Roll By · Whispering.
Zebracadabra, music for guitar. 17 original easy guitar solos by David Cottam. This collection of original music for guitar contains charming, witty & entertaining pieces that are easy to play, instantly attractive & make ideal repertoire for theearly guitarist. Featured pieces are - Have a Habanera! & Well of Sighs - are set on the ABRSM Guitar Syllabus from 2009, plus 15 other delightful easy pieces.
World traveling fingerstyle guitarist Pat Kirtley presents 17 solo guitar arrangements of traditional Irish tunes including a few original compositions in the same vein by himself, Pierre Bensusan, and Duck Baker. As all of the tunes in this 1997 recording were arranged in altered tunings (DADGAD, EADEAE or DADEAD), each appears in both standard notation and tablature with insightful performance notes. In general, these transcriptions from Pat Kirtley's 1997 album of the same title are extremely accurate: The Red-Haired Boy, however, played as a duet with Steve Rector on the album - appears as a solo arrangement in this book. Recommended for the intermediate to advanced player,the author provides insightful performance notes for each tune.
Sing and play the best songs from the biggest names in rock and pop with this new addition to the popular Buskers series. This comprehensive songbook contains 101 acoustic classics by artists ranging from the Beatles and Joan Baez to KT Tunstall and Jeff Buckley. All your favourite songs are arranged with lyrics, melody and chord boxes, in a ring-bound, conveniently-sized book that can be used for gigs, practice or just for fun!
This set of audio lessons contains three compact discs featuring note-by-note, phrase-by-phrase instruction. All the music is presented in notations and tablature. Lessons are taught in Drop D tuning (DADGBE). As a special bonus, this book includes an interview with Duck Baker and an explanation of the tab system.
As part of Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop Audio Series this comprehensive and thorough collection of fingerpicking Guitar lessons contains invaluable tips and instruction implemented throughout the arrangements in this book.The three audio CDs give 3 full hours of note-by-note, phrase-by-phrase instruction.
These lessons, originally handwritten and in some cases were offered only as tab transcriptions, have now been typeset in standard notation and tab. The audio lessons in this series were initially recorded in the 1970's, released on audio cassettes. We have gone back to our master tapes to get the best possible sound for this new CD edition.
This fun and easy book and CD takes you from the very beginning. Learning right and left-hand techniques, learning your first chords, 18 great songs AND you painlessly learn them by reading notes. Anyone can do it. Steve's method and approach to learning to read notes is so simple that 4 year olds have done it. You will start with 4 simple notes. Steve then teaches songs using just those four notes. He systematically adds a few more notes at a time bundled with easy to understand instructions and songs so that in a short time you will know all the notes, chords, strumming patterns to play hundreds of songs. This is a perfect primer for many of Steve's best sellers and other author'books. Audio CD included.
In this book you'll learn creative, fun techniques and ideas on playing backup. Playing backup means responding in a sensitive manner with singers and other musicians. So let's take a serious look at what to do when you're not soloing. The question is: to play or not to play?
15 favorites arranged for solo guitar in notes and tab, including: Down by the Salley Gardens · The Foggy Dew · The Galway Piper · The Gypsy Rover · Londonderry Air · Molly Malone · Sweet Rosie O'Grady · Water Is Wide · The Wearing of the Green · When Irish Eyes Are Smiling · Whiskey in the Jar · Wild Rover · and more.
Songs and music featured in The Complete Guitar Player. Includes 'Amazing Grace', 'Where Have All The Flowers Gone?' and 'And I Love Her'.
This book is a complete guide to traditional Irish music. It contains fifty tunes, advice on alternate tunings, chord substitution, technique for accompaniment and solo playing and much more. It also has a bibliography,discography, and Sections On Irish music in general. The book is complete with an accompanying demo CD which features Paul de Grae playing thirty-one tunes from the book.
Strum Together songbooks feature melody, lyrics, and chord diagrams for five popular folk instruments displayed together in an easy-to-use format. With this edition, you can play 47 Dylan classics on ukulele, baritone ukulele, guitar, mandolin, and/or banjo! This is a great resource for stringed instrument players who are ready to experience the fun of making music together. Songs include: All Along the Watchtower · All I Really Want to Do · Blowin' in the Wind · Forever Young · Girl from the North Country · Gotta Serve Somebody · A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall · Highway 61 Revisited · It Ain't Me, Babe · Jokerman · Just like a Woman · Knockin' on Heaven's Door · Lay, Lady, Lay · Like a Rolling Stone · Maggie's Farm · Mr. Tambourine Man · Quinn, the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn) · Tangled up in Blue · The Times They Are A-Changin' · and more.
A dozen of Dylan's most popular songs are featured in this collection of easy guitar arrangements in standard notation and tablature. Includes: Blowin' in the Wind · Don't Think Twice, It's All Right · Hurricane · It Ain't Me Babe · Knockin' on Heaven's Door · Lay Lady Lay · Like a Rolling Stone · Mr. Tambourine Man · Positively 4th Street · Shelter from the Storm · Tangled up in Blue · The Times They Are A-Changin'.
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.
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.
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.
Progressive Guitar Method For Young Beginners: Book 2 introduces five new notes (E, F, G, D and F#) and five simplified chord shapes (G, D7, C, G7 and D).
Progressive Guitar Method ForYoungBeginners: Book 2 contains very easy arrangements of over 20 songs and introduces the student to eighth notes, eighth note strum patterns and dotted quarter notes.
Songs include Pop Goes The Weasel, ForHe's AJolly Good Fellow, Michael Finnegan, The Muffin Man, London Bridge and many more.