You can get ringing notes rich tones and textures simply by retuning your guitar to an open chord. On this easy exploration for novice players Mary Flower teaches some tunings that will help you play beautiful sounding songs and instrumentals almost immediately. An expert player and an experienced instructor Mary helps you work out well-known songs or instrumentals for each tuning. She starts with a simple one - dropping the bass E string to D - and teaches a basic but lovely fingerpicking version of the folk hymn I'll Fly Away. You'll then learn how to get into open G G6 D and D minor tunings. Along the way Mary shows how to embellish your guitar workusing various chord positions scales harmony lines hammer-ons pull-offs and other essential techniques. Songs include the traditional instrumental Spanish Fandango; the powerful folk tune John Henry; a 'carnivalesque' tribute to Bo Carter; and gospel/spiritual songs Amazing Grace I Shall Not Be Moved Do Lord and Jesus is on the Main Line.

Media Type : Book+CD+DVD Level : Multiple Levels Musical Genre : Jazz Series : Complete Number of pages : 256 If you're getting into jazz or expanding your jazz chops, this comprehensive approach is for you. From comping and chord voicings to single-note soloing, you will learn, step by step, the tools necessary for playing jazz guitar. The book is easy to understand and contains hundreds of great-sounding playable examples to serve as springboards for applying the concepts to jazz standards or your own compositions. Whether you're into traditional jazz or fusion, this book has it all. In notation and tablature. CD and DVD included.

If you're getting into jazz or expanding your jazz chops this comprehensive approach is for you. From comping and chord voicings to single-note soloing you will learn step by step the tools necessary for playing jazz Guitar.The book is easy to understand and contains hundreds of great-sounding playable examples to serve as springboards for applying the concepts to jazz standards or your own compositions. Whether you're into traditional jazz orfusion this book has it all.In notation and tablature. Online audio and video available.

Here are two DVD lessons that will be deeply satisfying for any acoustic guitarist who wants to move beyond simple chords and easy strums. Beginning and intermediate players will quickly gain an understanding of guitar basics through the process of creating beautiful compelling arrangements of well-known much-loved traditional songs. DVD 1: The Cuckoo Delia's Gone The Water is Wide. DVD 2: Hard Times Come Again No More Wayfaring Stranger Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies.

The Bumper Book Of Christmas Songs is a massive collection of the best traditional and popular seasonal songs arranged for Piano Vocal and Guitar including two useful CDs of accompaniments.   Featuring all of those amazingly festive tunes that warm everyone's hearts at this time of year it's the most wonderful book of the season. Keep it at home on the music shelf then take it out in the run up to Christmas and play all of those great favourites that everybody loves. Songs like Away In A Manger Silent Night and We Wish You A Merry Christmas are timeless classics that are the epitome of Christmas. Inthe same book the huge contemporary pop hits that get everyone dancing at those Christmas parties are included like Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town Another Rock And Roll Christmas and Fairytale Of New York.   The CDs that complement the book include backing tracks for the songs so if you aren't fortunate enough to have other musicians accompanying you you can still sound like you've got a full band behind you. This Bumper Book is ideal for either practising privately at your Piano or performing in front of a small audience. It's also big and diverse enough to get out every Christmas time when all your family and friends are together for a big singalong. The festive favourites will keep you playing and singing each and every year with the easy-to-use format and the full lyrics sheet music and chord boxes.    So to really get you in the spirit of Christmas this year why not check out The Bumper Book Of Christmas Songs sheet music and learn to play the best of the best of seasonal classics - and keep playing them year after year.  

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.This collection includes 70 traditional Celtic classics such as The Ash Grove Barbara Allen The Blue Bells of Scotland Comin' Through the Rye Danny Boy Down by the Salley Gardens The Drunken Sailor Finnegan's Wake Garryowen A Highland Lad My Love Was Born The Irish Rover Kerry Dance Loch Lomond Molly Malone(Cockles & Mussels) My Wild Irish Rose Red Is the Rose The Rising of the Moon That's an Irish Lullaby 'Tis the Last Rose of Summer Tourelay Tourelay When Irish Eyes Are Smiling Whiskey in the Jar Will Ye Go Lassie Go? Ye Banks and Braes O' Bonnie Doon and many more.

With this 87-track CD and Book pack you can learn to play and improvise like a real pro. You start at the beginning, going through the blues scale and the traditional blues chord sequence, then you move on to some essential techniques: fretboard chord shapes, arpeggios, slides, double-stops, string bends, hammer-ons, pull-offs and more. All exercises are demonstrated on the CD at both full speed and a slower practice speed, so in no time at all you will be creating your own solos in the style of such great blues legends as Eric Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Five complete solos are included in the easy-to-follow tab. / Guitare

Southpaws rejoice! This world-famous method is now available in a special edition just for lefties with customized photos and diagrams. Students enjoy the method's easy-to-follow format that gives them a solid music educationwhile letting them play songs right away. Book 1 provides beginning instruction covering tuning; 1st-position melody playing; C G G7 D7 and Em chords; rhythms through eighth notes; solos and ensembles; and strumming. Featuresa chord chart and traditional songs like: Amazing Grace • Greensleeves • and When the Saints Go Marching In.

Forty traditional and popular Christmas songs arranged for easy piano by John Brimhall.

The traditional Nativity story retold in narration and song for performance by children of mixed ages and abilities. The music is easy to learn and has an up-to-date feel which makes it instantly appealing. Duration: 25mins. Script available in student book.You will require a license to perform this work at your school/youth theatre; please click here for moreinformation and our application form.

With Online Audio-As one can easily imagine it would be very hard for a Guitar student to start reading the scores of the traditional choro repertoire most of them with large number of technical difficulties. It would be much better if theycould start with some easier pieces - of intermediate level - in order to be presented to the choro language in a more gradual and appropriate manner.That is the main goal of this book. It has 13 studies (in the 13 morecommonly used keys for the choro Guitar) written in a reduced form and in the principal stylistic choro variants: besides real choros there are polkas maxixes Brazilian tangos and xotis. The more used and characteristicrhythmical figurations are present in each of the studies as the principal. Also aiming at the simplification of execution all studies were composed with only two voices (melody and bass) and with no chords (although harmoniesare quite evident due to the choro melodic particularities). An audio download available online contains all 13 studies.

Seventeen songs for the modern child - to take their place alongside the traditional nursery rhymes. Includes 'Banks Of The Ohio', 'This Ole House' and 'Rivers Of Babylon'. / Piano/Vocal/Guitare (PVG) (Avec Grille D'Accords)

DVD Two: Mountain Songs Fiddle Tunes and Blues-Learn how to play in the Appalachian style with this easy-to-follow instructional DVD.In Appalachian Fingerstyle Guitar Grammy-winning guitarist Al Petteway continues his exploration of the evocative DADGAD tuning with a variety of must-learn tunes in the Southern mountain tradition.This second DVD in the series features lessons on playing in the bluegrass blues and country style and includes the songs The Coo-Coo Bonapart's Retreat Black Mountain Rag and more. The first DVD in the series can be found here .