A collection of 23 Celtic songs arranged for Guitar with standard notation and Tab. Includes a comprehensive guide to Flatpicking Celtic style Guitar and also a CD of examples.For me playing the Guitar is all about finding pieces of music that you want to play over and over again. I don't know a formula for what makes up a great piece but I know it when I hear it. A good piece of music is not a page with notes hanging in a museum it is music you come back to ten years later and love it just as much as you did when you first heard it. Whether it???s a classic piece by O'Carolan or a traditional piece in the Celtic tradition that is what I believe you will find inthis book. Quite simply these are beautiful arrangements of Celtic Music that you will keep you coming back. So if you love playing the guitar and you are looking for music you will be playing for a lifetime this is the book for you.Allan Alexander

Peter Penhallow presents fifteen American folk songs arranged to be accessible for the beginner guitarist complete with a glossary of terms a guide to music notation and a CD of examples. Get started by playing the music you love. Each of these wonderful folk and traditional favourites includes useful performance notes to help you develop the correct styles and techniques. Each song also boasts a variety of tracks on the CD featuring accompaniment patterns full performances and split rhythm/lead examples. Before you know it you'll be playing and singing such timeless songs as Down By The Riverside Will The Circle Be Unbroken and ThisLittle Light Of Mine.

This 21st Century Pro Method book gives the student a systematically presented technical foundation while also building an enjoyable repertoire in a variety of traditional and contemporary styles.

Media Type : Book Level : Multiple Levels Musical Genre : Flamenco Number of pages : 176 This beginning guitar method is written for aspiring classical or flamenco guitarists who want to learn how to read music up to the intermediate level. Music from the Spanish tradition such as Romanza, Pica-Pica, El Vito, Café de las Chinitas, Perfidía, La Virgen de la Macarena and flamenco music of Juan Serrano provides a technical and musical foundation that improves facility in playing scales, arpeggios, tremelo, and rasgueado. Tablature is not included as the one of the primary aims of this book is to improve note reading and the comprehension of the fundamental elements of music. Performances of all musical examples are available online that includes one performance at tempo for each of the more than 230 musical examples. Short repertoire pieces from Gaspar Sanz, Dionisio Aguado, Fernando Sor, Mauro Guiliani, Ferdinand Carulli, and Mateo Carcassi are included at the end of the book and are repertoire studies that will prepare guitarists for further study in classical and/or flamenco guitar.

Although the cittern has a history spanning 500 years and several countries like its cousin the Irish bouzouki it is a relative newcomer to contemporary traditional music. Doc Rossi a well-known citternist in both traditionaland early music has created this book for intermediate to advanced players who want to improve their technique develop ideas and learn new repertoire. Guitarists can play all of the tunes in this book on the guitar by tuning C FC G C F low to high and putting a capo at the second fret. The lowest line in the tablature then corresponds to the fifth string. The CD features all the tunes played at a medium tempo.

Par DIVERS AUTEURS / ROB MACKILLOP (ARR.). In this unique collection, multi-instrumentalist Rob MacKillop presents 30 airs and dances from Scotland, Ireland and England transcribed for the modern guitar in open-D tuning (DADF?AD). Although conceived for fingerstyle playing, most of these traditional, Classical and Baroque pieces are also playable with a pick.During the mid to late 18th century, a wire-strung instrument which could be described as a cross between a guitar and a cittern appeared in Britain. With the exception of the publications in Edinburgh by Robert Bremmer (c. 1713 - 89), most period writings refer to this instrument as the guittar. In providing extensive historical and performance notes on this music, the author has adopted this spelling. While derived principally from the publications by Scottish guittarists Robert Bremmer and James Oswald (1710 - 69), MacKillop discovered additional Scottish publications and manuscripts in The National Library of Scotland and even more manuscripts in the uncatalogued library of Blair Castle in Perthshire, Scotland.Written in standard notation and tablature, this book brings a particularly uncommon repertoire to light with an exceptional downloadable recording. Includes access to online audio./ Tablatures / Guitare Tablatures

This quick guide to flatpicking Irish traditional music was written by Doc Rossi a well-known citternist and guitarist in both traditional and early music. He's created this book for intermediate to advanced players who want to improve their technique develop ideas and learn new repertoire.Starting with the basics of technique and ornamentation in traditional music Doc then goes directly into the tunes in standard notation and tab. Focusing on traditional music from Ireland Doc has also chosen tunes from England France Flanders North America and Corsica to reflect the guitar's broad range. Right- and left-hand techniques ornamentation arranging and othertopics are taught through the tunes themselves. Doc has developed his own tuning for playing traditional music and this book shows you how to use it. His tuning makes it easy to play tunes in all the important traditional keys without moving a capo around or having to negotiate difficult position shifts while at the same time providing a number of open strings and other possibilities for playing your own accompaniment. An audio CD with all of the tunes played at medium tempo is included.

Par MARTIN JUAN / CAMPBELL PATRICK. The acclaimed first volume of this exciting series gave extensive insights into basic techniques of flamenco Guitar playing and the two important rhythmic forms (palos) of Solea and Alegrias. This second volume continues on with an exploration of further essential rhythmic palos. The first of these, occupying the whole of the first DVD, is the Bulerias. Juan Martin brings his many years of experience as an internationally renowned flamenco soloist and accompanist for singers and dancers to unravelling its mysteries, explaining and demonstrating very clearly the different elements of its rhythmic structure and the various ways it may be accented and counted. He uses traditional and more modern examples of the different kinds of rhythm and melodic passages (falsetas) to provide an invaluable understanding of this wonderful palo. The second DVD is devoted to the popular flamenco Rumba, then Tangos, Tientos and that most profound of all the palos, the deeply moving Seguiriyas. Martin's solo playing is complemented by demonstrations of the Guitar's role in accompanying the flamenco dance (baile) and song (cante) with the help of outstanding dancers Raquel de Luna and Miguel Infante and singers Amparo Heredia (La Repompilla) and Carlos Brias. The music for solo Guitar is transcribed in standard notation and tablature (cifra) and the two DVDs contain nearly three hours of explanation and demonstrations. The series is complemented by two other best-selling Juan Martin volumes published by Mel Bay, shown below. These provide progressively graded solo material to extend the repertoire, from beginner to concert level./ Tablatures / Guitare Tablatures

A Guide to Playing Modern & Traditional Electric Country Lead Guitar-This complete guide to playing modern and traditional electric country lead Guitar includes access to audio demo tracks online for download or streaming.Al Bonhomme's Country Guitar covers the topics: pentatonic and other scales string bending hybrid picking chicken pickin' flatpicking pickin' on the low strings steel Guitar double stops triad basics Banjo rolls open-string cascades cow jazz and intros and endings. Standard notation and tablature are both included.

10 Duette im Stil von Romantik, Blues, Bossa Nova, samba, Pop und Folklore. Par JUERGEN KUMLEHN. This book is for all guitarists who are looking for something new to play and who don't want to limit themselves exclusively to the more traditional type of duet music that's available. Stylistically, the pieces range from romantic, blues and bossa nova to samba, pop and folklore. The included CD contains every piece in two different versions as well as a preparatory exercise. First, there's a complete version for listening with an expanded and properly mixed arrangement. In this version, supporting instruments such as percussion, electric piano, strings, or acoustic bass are added in an appropriate manner for the style and mixed in softly without distracting the focus from the two guitars. After every listening version, a 'picking pattern' follows: the rhythm guitar performs and stays with this picking pattern throughout the entire piece and it forms the common thread that represents the actual core of each composition. This pattern is also presented on the CD in a slow version of a representative section of each song which you can analyze and play along with. Finally, you'll find the play-along version. This version has been reduced to only the two guitars, with one guitar on the left channel and the other on the right. Written in notation and tablature. Text in English and German. / Niveau : Débutant à Intermédiaire / All Styles - Duets / Tablatures / Guitare Tablatures

With Online Audio-An exciting collection of 29 traditional tunes from Ireland arranged for easy flatpicking Guitar. All tunes are written clearly in standard notation as well as Guitar tablature. An accompanying audio download contains all thetunes played at a manageable speed with Guitar accompaniment.The collection contains airs well known songs polkas slip jigs slides double jigs hornpipes and reels all of which are specially arranged by the authorwith the beginning/intermediate guitarist in mind. On the audio download the tunes are played 2 or 3 times so you can really get into the feel of the tune when playing along. The speed of the tunes is quite slow but not soslow as to take away from the essential feel of the music.Irish music is rightly popular all over the world. The haunting beauty of the slow airs and infectious foot-tapping rhythms of jigs and reels are here to bediscovered in this selection of great traditional music.