Music & Song Books by Instrument
Popular session tunes in Scotland. This latest volume comes by popular demand. Great tunes from new composers and old tunes that have stood the test of time to add to your Horo Gheallaidh collections 1, 2 and 3. This book is an essential addition to all fiddlers' Scottish repertoires.
Many of the tunes such as Aly's Watz, Doorus Mill, The Strayaway Child, The Cape Breton Fiddler's Welcome, Innisheer Milltimber King of the Mountains and many more, recorded on the best of Scottish albums.
This 50-song collection of popular songs, spanning four decades, will add variety to your mountain dulcimer repertoire and will be loads of fun to play! Each well-crafted arrangement is written in standard notation and tab in standard D-A-d tuning and includes lyrics plus chord diagrams for additional accompaniment. Many songs utilize the 1+ and 6+ frets commonly found on mountain dulcimers, which greatly expand song possibilities. Songs include: Ain't No Sunshine · Can't Help Falling in Love · Fields of Gold · Folsom Prison Blues · Free Fallin' · I Heard It Through the Grapevine · I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry · Leaving on a Jet Plane · The Long and Winding Road · Lyin' Eyes · Maggie May · Mr. Tambourine Man · Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) · Puff the Magic Dragon · Red, Red Wine · Runnin' down a Dream · Smoke on the Water · The Sound of Silence · Sweet Caroline · Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season) · Under the Boardwalk · Wonderful Tonight · Y.M.C.A. · You've Got to Hide Your Love Away · 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'.
While one of a kind is a hard rating to achieve at Mel Bay Publications, Kevin Allison has done it with The Ceilidh Dance Book. A ceilidh is a traditional Scottish gathering where people share songs, stories, music, and dancing that is very much alive today. In Scotland, there are hundreds of ceilidh bands, each of which has their own trademark tune sets, making it possible for a man in a kilt to make a living as a performing musician. This book not only provides 85 Scottish tunes in sets as they might be used in a ceilidh event ”it also offers detailed, beat-by-beat descriptions of the dance steps for twenty-four dances! From The Highland Scottish to The Mooncoin Jig, with this book in hand, you'll be able to both play in the band and step to the music with the locals. The kilt is optional. Arranged for mandolin or fiddle with suggested chord backup, in standard notation only.
In music, the term "bluegrass" describes the hot string-band style pioneered by Kentuckian Bill Monroe, which blends old-time country music with blues rhythms and jazz-influenced improvisation. This book contains 101 authentic bluegrass mandolin licks in the favorite bluegrass keys of C, G, D, and A minor written in notation and tablature. The licks are broken down into phrases of two, four, and eight bars. In addition, several endings and crosspicking licks are included.
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.
Kyle Creed Clawhammer Banjo Master is a collection of clawhammer banjo tablature as played by Kyle Creed, with modern interpretations by Bob Carlin and Dan Levenson. This book is the first in a series of transcriptions of tunes from the old masters 'in this case, Kyle Creed 'who gave definition to our style of old time clawhammer banjo playing. The repertoire, presented in tablature, is intended to be a starting point for your journey through the old time music world. As such, each piece is presented in multiple arrangements, both on the page and through the online audio. Includes access to online audio recordings that are for the most part played at a learning tempo and are close to the written notation but not exact in all cases.
This book and accompanying audio download include popular and lesser-known old-time tunes for the clawhammer banjo. This book is a followup to Dan Levenson's Old-Time Festival Tunes for Clawhammer Banjo (MB20313M) and includes 62 more tunes of varying difficulty. Old favorites as well as new additions are presented, including many time-tested standards. The material is presented in standard notation and basic/advanced tablature. Suggested chords are also included to help you along the way. Fiddle players will enjoy the companion to this book, Old-Time Favorites for Fiddle and Mandolin (MB30225M), which shares the same basic standard notation. Includes access to online audio.
This book introduces fiddlers to 3rd position in a fun and exciting way by using well known Scottish tunes as the examples. It is a very popular book and can be used in on its own or in conjunction with a non-Scottish 3rd position book if supplementary fun material is required.
Also included are some pages of 2nd position tunes to widen the interest in the uses of position work in fiddle playing and enable the players to tackle some of the material from Scott Skinner’s "The Scottish Violinist" book and tunes from the "Session" books, some of which include position work.
With help from top singers. 51 songs on double CD, created by pupils from twenty two Fife schools working with songwriters involved with The New Makars Trust & their class teachers as part of the Celebrating Fife In Song project to encourage trad. music in Fife schools.
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.
This outstanding collection of recorder solos consists of irish songs and melodies famous the world over. It contains a total of thirty pieces including 'Cockles and Mussels', 'The Londonderry Air' and 'Galway Bay'. All the solos have been newly arranged for this book. They are easy to play and are suitable for class use as well as home enjoyment.
A unique assortment of 40 short pieces written for soprano recorder with suggested guitar chords. Selection include: Trouvere (Or la Truix); Estampie; La Rotta; Saltarello; Der Neve Villancico; Basse Dance (La Volunte'); Hoboeckentanz; Der Heiligen Drei Konige Aufzug; Polnischer Tanz; and more. A glossary and brief performance notes are provided.
Eleven solos transcribed for mandolin in notation and tablature. Includes works by Corelli, Handel, Telemann, Bach and others.
As Bill Monroe is commonly lauded as "the father of bluegrass music," his tunes are standard repertoire and should be studied and memorized by any serious student of bluegrass. This book is a collection of transcriptions in notation and tablature taken from classic instrumentals recorded over a span of 40 years, from the early 1940s to the early 1980s.
In music, the term "bluegrass" describes the hot string-band style pioneered by Kentuckian Bill Monroe, which blends old-time country music with blues rhythms and jazz-influenced improvisation. This book contains 101 authentic bluegrass mandolin licks in the favorite bluegrass keys of C, G, D, and A minor written in notation and tablature. The licks are broken down into phrases of two, four, and eight bars. In addition, several endings and crosspicking licks are included.