SKU: BT.RSK200074

ISBN 9781789360103. English.

Learn to play rock and pop with Rockschool. These specially written arrangements develop the skills and techniques you need to help you achieve your musical goals. Rockschool Classics Guitar Grade 6-8 contains eight of thebiggest rock tracks from the past five decades arranged for you to play in your exam for Grades 6-8. You can choose two pieces from Rockschool Classics to play in your Grade Exam or three to play in your PeformanceCertificate.

Featuring:

• Iron Maiden - 2 Minutes To Midnight
• Metallica - Holier Than Thou
• Foo Fighters - Rope
• AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long
• King's X - We Were Born ToBeLoved
• Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows

Plus:

• Band and artist fact files with recommended listening
• In-depth walkthroughs of every track
• Easy-access downloadableaudio
• Example tests and exercises
• Amp settings and tone advice for each track

SKU: MB.31008M

ISBN 9781513467016. 8.75x11.75 inches.

Blind Lemon Jefferson was a trail blazer, both as a singer and guitarist, but also as a commercial phenomenon, for he was the first blues musician to establish the tremendous appeal that blues, as played and sung by rural African American folk, had for the record-buying public. It is no exaggeration to say that the sales of Lemon’s records paved the way for a host of other solo rural blues musicians to record in his wake and made the record companies more willing to give other musicians a chance, in the hopes of achieving similar success. 

Lemon’s record sales weren’t what made him a great musician, though - that could only be attributed to his startlingly virtuosic guitar - playing and soulful singing, developed over years of busking, building on his natural gifts with a great deal of practice and work. In the Guitar of Blind Lemon Jefferson author John Miller presents transcriptions, in standard notation and tablature, of 22 of Lemon’s greatest performances, with an additional essay examining Lemon’s senses of time and phrasing and his picking techniques. Also included is a download link to all the original recordings. 

To present a picture of Lemon the man, noted blues researchers Alan Governar and Kip Lornell have contributed an essay focusing on Lemon’s early life, the origins of his music, and his time spent in a musical partnership with Lead Belly. Links are provided to downloadable performances of the songs in the book from which the transcriptions were made, so that you can have Lemon’s sound in your head as you learn to play his songs.

Blind Lemon Jefferson was remarkable, even in a style that abounded in great musicians, and some measure of his influence can be seen in the fact that musicians recorded in the 1960s, more than thirty years after his death, were still covering his songs and stealing guitar licks from him. The Guitar of Blind Lemon Jefferson gives you the resources needed to learn what was so special about Lemon’s music, and to experience his musical excellence from inside the music itself.

Titles include: One Dime Blues, Got The Blues, Dry Southern Blues, Big Night Blues, Rabbit Foot Blues, Shuckin' Sugar Blues, Where Shall I Be, Wartime Blues, Black Horse Blues, Prison Cell Blues, Piney Woods Money Mama, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean, He Arose From The Dead, Beggin' Back, Broke And Hungry, Bad Luck Blues, Matchbox Blues, Lemon's Worried Blues, That Crawlin' Baby Blues, Easy Rider Blues, Stocking Feet Blues and Right of Way Blues

Level 2/3 • 160 pages • Direct download link to audio files. 

SKU: GI.G-8753G

English, Polish. Text by Rory Cooney.

SKU: HL.14021531

9.0x12.0x0.154 inches. French.

Les caracteristiques de la guitare sont telles qu'il existe un nombre quasi-illimite de possibilites (positions, doigtes, techniques de liaison) pour jouer une meme phrase melodique. Cet ouvrage a donc pour but de donner quelques exemples de phrases et d'arrangements des Standards du Jazz issus de repertoire Swing et Be-Bop a l'aide d'un CD d'accompagnement. Vous trouverez dans cette methode deux types de themes et d'arrangements: * Les themes Be-Bop: Ils sont arranges pour deux guitares, une basse et une batterie. * Les themes Swing: Ils sont arranges pour guitare, basse et batterie. La guitare joue les accords et la melodie simultanement. The guitar idioms give an endless comnbination of fingerings, neck positions and legato techniques to play one single musical line. The purpose of this book is to provide examples of phrasing and arranging of swing and be-bop standards. You will find two types of tunes * Be-Bop tunes: These tunes are arranged for two guitars, a bass and drums. * Swing tunes: These are arranged for guitar, bass and drums. The theme and chords are played by one guitar only.

SKU: HL.242081

ISBN 9781785588617. UPC: 888680704407. 4.75x7.75x0.956 inches.

A pocket-sized collection of 195 Beatles hits presented in chord songbook format. Includes complete lyrics, chord names & a handy chord box reference sheet. Including classic hits such as: All You Need Is Love • Can't Buy Me Love • Day Tripper • Do You Want to Know a Secret • Eleanor Rigby • From Me to You • Get Back • Help! • Hey Jude • I Want to Hold Your Hand • Let It Be • Magical Mystery Tour • Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da • Please Please Me • Ticket to Ride • Twist and Shout • and more.

SKU: HL.14030881

ISBN 9781900428255. English.

William Percy French was one of Ireland's favourite sons and his influence on traditional Irish Music can still be felt today. His lyrics are still humorous, ironic and perceptive, but never mocking or scornful, and these exemplify his love of his motherland. Representing some of the finest examples of this genre, this volume contains forty-seven of his most famous and enjoyed songs all lovingly arranged by James Nealy, with melody-line, complete lyrics and chords. Includes notes on the inspiration and background of each of the songs and a commentary on the life and talents of French himself. This is a wonderful reference book as well as a compilation of his magnificent works for enjoyment. Songs include Eileen Oge, The Emigrants Letter and 'Who said the Hook Never Hurted the Worms?'.