Learn fun rock and country solos to supplement your piano lessons! Rock and Country Masters for Piano is a wonderful supplement to the student-level piano repertoire. It introduces you to colorful, fun-to-play pieces in a variety of rock and country styles. Take a guided tour through the important styles of the rock and country masters. You'll learn how they get their unique sound---while progressively arranged, original compositions give you a chance to try out these styles on your own. Accompanying every piece are listening suggestions, a biography of the artist who inspired it, and specially tailored preparatory exercises. Rock and Country Masters for Piano is recommended for students age 12 and older, but younger musicians can enjoy playing the pieces under the guidance of a teacher. The included CD demonstrates all the examples and allows you to play along (with solo keyboard or full band).* Perfect for curious piano students and self-learners* A great supplement to piano lessons * For both young and adult learners * Correlates with Alfred Music's best selling piano methods Each solo piano piece in the Masters for Piano series correlates to pages in Alfred's Complete Methods---such as Beginning, Intermediate, and Mastering Rock Keyboard---as well as Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course and Alfred's Basic Adult Piano All-in-One Course. / Piano

Media Type : Book/CD Set Level : Beginning-Intermediate Musical Genre : All Styles Series : McCabe's 101 Series Number of pages : 48 This book will help you play and write songs in both contemporary and classic country styles. The book is for music students, teachers, performing artists, recording studios, composers, songwriters, advertising agencies, and any person or music company who needs a user-friendly, comprehensive reference guide to country chord progressions. Specific chord fingerings are supplied for guitar players. The stereo CD makes the book an ideal tool for study or jamming. No note reading is required. Blank treble and bass staves are included for writing songs, licks and solos. A concise discussion of song form is provided to help beginners understand the structure of country songs. Overall, a great learning and reference tool for beginners and pros alike. All creative musicians and writers who study, perform, or compose country music will benefit from this book.

The seventh in line of the Mel Bay/Warner collaboration offers 15 country favorites new and old. All arranged for the beginning to intermediate flatpicking guitarist in standard notation and tablature.These will be agreat addition to your collection: Chattahoochee Donâ??t Rock the Jukebox God Bless the U.S.A. Guitars Cadillacs Liza Jane My Maria Nothingâ??s Changed Here South Side of Dixie Take This Job and Shove It Tempted ThankGod Iâ??m a Country Boy Thereâ??s Your Trouble This Time A Thousand Miles from Nowhere and The Thunder Rolls.Arrangers include John Harding Larry McCabe Joe Carr Brad Davis Dylan Schorer and Dan Bowden.

Six Country Dances is an anthology of tunes from Playford’s ‘The English Dancing Master’ selected and arranged by Richard Rodney Bennett. Playford’s collection was first published in 1651 and contained 535 popular tunes for country dancing. Richard Rodney Bennett’s skilful and inspired arrangements are perfect for intermediate standard players adding as they do a contemporary slant to these classics of the English folk repertoire. This edition is for Violin and Piano.

Here is a comprehensive stylistic breakdown of country Guitar techniques from the past 50 years. Drawing inspiration from the timelessly innovative licks of Merle Travis Chet Atkins Albert Lee Vince Gill Brent Mason and Brad Paisley the near 90 musical examples within these pages will hone your left and right hands with technical string-bending and rolling licks while sharpening your knowledge of the thought process behind creating your own licks and why and when to play them.Whether you're an intermediate-level player wanting to add chicken pickin' flavors to your jazz lines or a rocker interested in dressing up your licks with chromatic sophistication andhybrid picking techniques turn off the distortion switch to your brightest pickup and bring on the twang!

The songs in the Hal Leonard Easy Rhythm Guitar books are presented with large easy-to-read “Rhythm Tab” notation. The rhythm guitar part or accompaniment is carefully arranged for beginner to intermediate players.Chord frames are provided to help the player with left-hand fingerings. Lyrics and a melody cue are also included. Just listen to the CD to hear how the guitar should sound and then play along using the separate backing tracks.The audio CD works in any CD player and is also enhanced so PC and Mac users can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing pitch!This pack lets you play the chords and riffs of 10 classic country pop songs including: Blue Bayou • Can't Help Falling in Love • The Gambler • Gentle on My Mind • Green Green Grass of Home • King of the Road • Release Me • and more.

Learn from the best. Grandpa Jones was a country music legend and a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame. He was very well known and respected for his own style of clawhammer banjo. The instructions are helpful for thebeginner with tips on caring for your banjo to keep it sounding its best. The text covers tunings chord diagrams and the right hand rhythm patterns that made Grandpa Jones famous with the 5-string banjo. For the intermediatemusician there are alternate tunings drop thumb rhythm and exercises for practicing your new skills. Included are several favorite songs along with lyrics and chords for your accompanist. The preface of the book writtenby Grandpa Jones along with the collection of personal photographs makes this an excellent keepsake as well. This is simply a must for your music library.

Media Type : Book Level : Intermediate-Advanced Musical Genre : Bluegrass & Country Series : Sugar Hill Records Number of pages : 114 Includes every note of every solo by the nine top resonator guitarists who contributed to the Grammy Award-winning album of the same title. All 20 tunes (including the 11 solos on Fireball Mail) appear in tablature with commentary and chordal accompaniment. Feartures Jerry Douglas, Buck Graves, Mike Auldridge, Curtis Burch, Sally Van Meter, etc. (This book does not include Gene Wooten's rendition of Day Tripper from the CD.)

Follow the brilliant but ill-fated career of the legendary hero of fifties country music in this superb songbook. Contains 26 classic songs in easy-to-intermediate arrangements for fingerpicking and flatpicking guitar including 'Lovesick Blues' 'Move It On Over' 'You Win Again' & more.