Mariachi music for most of its 200 or so years has primarily been an aural tradition passing songs down from generation to generation ear to ear. This collection puts many popular tunes from the genre in print for any classicalguitarist to play. Author Laura Sobrino has been a professional mariachi and is familiar with the stylistic intricacies that truly make this Mexican traditional and popular music unique. Written in standard notation and tablature.

for Solo Guitar Vol. 1-This collection will help spark an interest in the development of an American repertoire for the classical guitar. Traditional Scottish and Irish tunes were transformed by the African rhythms of banjo players which in turninfluenced popular music and led to ragtime jazz and blues. The amount of folk music in America is staggering. The nineteenth century gave birth to many unique American styles and its songs are an important part of our musicalheritage. Even today quite a few of the tunes in this collection will seem very familiar. Written primarily in standard notation the exceptions being those tunes in altered tunings which logically appear in tablature only.

Par LAURINDO ALMEIDA. This collection of 16 guitar duets offers professionals, teachers or students a wide variety of styles from the Baroque to the Post-Romantic periods. Some of this music is unique to the guitar repertoire. For example, the six Serenades introduce some of the most popular music of the late 19th century by Georges Bizet, Franz Drdla, Enrico Toselli, Moritz Moszkowski, Ricardo Drigo and Sigmund Romberg. The collection ends with selected works by Tchaikovsky and Brahms. These arrangements are skillfully crafted and will delight the intermediate student. / Niveau : Intermédiaire à Avancé / Classic - Duets / Recueil / Guitare Classique

A collection of the most popular songs and traditional music celebrating love and marriage, arranged for piano, voice and guitar, complete with chord symbols and full lyrics where appropriate. Suitable for intermediate standard pianists. Includes Wagner's Bridal March, Schubert's Ave Maria, A Whiter Shade Of Pale by Procol Harum and The Power Of Love by Jennifer Rush

9 pieces in Latin Style-9 Latin style pieces for both study and performance plus notes on the scores & fingering glossary of chord symbols and notes on rasgueados. The A-B-A-C-A Choros form is used as a basic structure for all of the pieces and the styles and moods of the music vary from traditional and classical to Bossa Nova and jazz samba. In Brasil the Choros (diminutive Chorinho) owes its development to musicians performing either solo or in groups who often being obliged to play long hours during functions and festivals would improvise and create variations on popular and traditional themes. The compositions here are all based on this idea of stating a theme andthen creating variations & contrasts. Although the melodic harmonic and rhythmic content of the Choros/Chorinho has evolved greatly over time its underlying beat feel is traditionally 2 per measure and written with a 2/4 time signature. This generally makes comfortable reading for the guitar player because the beamed note groupings define clearly the rhythm patterns to be played. However much music that originally appeared in 2/4 time is now published in 4/4 with a cut time feel and which seems to be favoured by many musicians including guitarists who work in folk and popular idioms. For this edition the time signature which allows a clearer page presentation is chosen for each piece and no musical difference between the 2/4 and the Cut-time signatures is intended.

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.  

Sixteen easy-to-play piano arrangements by Stephen Duro, complete with chord symbols and lyrics. With this book you will find yourself playing today's most popular Irish music in no time. Don't forget to check out the other titles in the excellent I Can Play That! series. / Piano / 48 pages / Partition

Explore how the traditional parlor style guitar backups used during the golden age of the Old Time Music string band performance style were further developed by guitarists during the Depression years of the 1930s.The genesis of those developments lies principally in the techniques popularized by the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers on their recordings that featured the use of the flat pick instead of a thumb pick use of left hand embellishments including adjacent string drone usage development of “hot licks” based on chromatic passing note sequences and syncopations and the popularity of licks played on the higher pitched tenor guitar.

Par MYCHAL GENDRON. This volume contains some of the most popular traditional carols, arranged for flute and guitar. Most of these duet arrangements allow as much dialogue and interplay between the two instruments as possible, while maintaining each carol's character and spirit. While the flute often carries the melody, the guitar has frequent solo passages of its own to help break the 'melody with chords' monotony found in many arrangements of this kind. Modulations, imitative counterpoint and quotations from works by well-known composers will, hopefully, make these little pieces enjoyable for performers as well as listeners. For intermediate level flutists and guitarists. Standard notation only. / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Christmas - Chamber / Recueil / Guitare et Flûte Traversière

Guitar Styles of Merle Watson-During the fifteen years that Merle Watson toured and recorded with his father Doc Watson the duo was one of the most popular and beloved musical teams in folk music history. On these two CDs Merle teaches the traditional fingerpicking flatpicking and slide guitar styles for which he was famous. Doc joins Merle in a dynamic demonstration of twin guitars as they take apart some of their most requested duets and explain in detail how each part is played. CD One - Country Guitar Fingerpicking Solos & Duets: Southbound - Candyman - Will the Circle Be Unbroken - Goin' Down the Road - Make Me a Pallet on the Floor - Nine-Pound Hammer - The Last Thing on My Mind - Worried Blues- Bonaparte's Retreat - Windy and Warm - Blue Railroad Train - Solid Gone - Deep River Blues. CD Two - Slide Guitar and Flatpicking Solos & Duets: Poor Boy Blues - Day Break Blues - Curly Headed Baby - Can't Be Satisfied - Wabash Cannonball - Minglewood Blues - Miss the Mississippi and You - Columbus Stockade - Honky Tonkin' - Will the Circle Be Unbroken - Old Joe Clark - Salt Creek - Florida Blues - Cotton-Eyed Joe - Red-Haired Boy. TWO CDs - INCLUDES TAB - LEVEL 3

Immerse yourself in a treasure trove of timeless classics 244 popular favourites collected into one giant easy to play songbook!This evergreen selection of folk and traditional standards is perfect to play through withfriends or for guitarists looking to expand their repertoire.All tracks are arranged for easy and enjoyable playing with standard notation and guitar tablature.

Perfect for the student of Jazz. --Michael Brecker ?I encourage the jazz guitar students at the University of North Texas to emulate tenor saxophonists. Greg Fishman's book, Jazz Guitar Etudes, contains idiomatic bebop lines and will be a great tool for any guitar teacher with aspiring jazz guitarists. Thanks, Greg!? Fred Hamilton, professor of jazz guitar, University of North Texas ?These are great solos and etudes! I'm always telling my guitar students to learn lines and phrasing from horn players, and Greg Fishman's book is perfect for this approach. The book is nicely done and very well laid out.? Corey Christiansen Professor of Guitar, Utah State University, Visiting Professor, Indiana University This book is very well put together and very thorough. It gives guitar students the information necessary to obtain a vocabulary based on the bebop tradition, yet ultimately encourages them to improvise on these structures, creating their own lines and ideas. I commend you on meeting this challenge head-on, and for effectively clarifying these concepts in your liner notes. --Steve Cardenas Professor of Guitar, The New School, New York City, member of the Paul Motian Band and Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchesra. The lines are great, the rhythm section is terrific, and I really love the fact that the student guitarist working out of this book gets to play along with both the guitarist on the CD and with your tenor. This book is incredibly well thought out. Congratulations on a fantastic book! --Jack Peterson, legendary jazz guitar professor (retired) from Berklee and North Texas State Just Jazz Guitar's rave review of Jazz Guitar Etudes by Greg Fishman: Jazz Guitar Etudes is an excellent resource for all guitarists and teachers. After releasing a very popular etudes book for jazz saxophone, Greg Fishman collaborated with guitarist Mike Allemena to do a guitar version of the book. The book includes standard notation and tablature. The studies in the book are great written improvised solos over familiar chord progressions such as the blues, rhythm changes, and standards. The book comes with a CD that features a guitar version, a saxophone version, and a rhythm section version of each etude. In addition, Fishman begins the book with concepts in developing jazz lines such as proper voice leading and sequences. The melodic lines are very well designed phrases using the the bebop language. Guitarists can gain so much by playing and analyzing these etudes --Just Jazz Guitar Magazine Endorsed by Michael Brecker, Dave Liebman, Phil Woods, James Moody, Plas Johnson, Mark Colby, Bob Sheppard, Jerry Coker, Gary Campbell, Tim Price, Gary Keller, Chip McNeil and many other teachers and players around the world, this series of saxophone etude and duet books will immediately help you take your playing to the next level. Click a cover and hear a sample... New book release for Jazz Guitar: Jazz Guitar Etudes book and CD Play-along set is now in stock and shipping! This book features master jazz guitarist Mike Allemana playing twelve bebop style etudes. Also includes Greg Fishman playing each etude on tenor saxophone. This allows the guitarist the choice of playing with Mike (guitar) or Greg (tenor). Book also features tablature with Mike's own fingerings! 52 pages, 8.5 x 11 format, ISBN 978-0-9766153-7-8