Great Big Guitar Book

Absolute Beginners: Acoustic Guitar is the complete guide to playing the Acoustic Guitar from the first time you pick it up all the way to playing your first songs along with backing tracks. With clear images easy-to-understand text and demonstrations of every exercise on an Audio Download this book is the easiest way to learn the techniques that are essential to learning to play the AcousticGuitar. Absolute Beginners: Acoustic Guitar opens with a clear introduction to the parts of the Guitar how to choose one and the different types. After this you'll learn the differencesbetween playing with a plectrum or your fingers you'll tune up then you'll be ready to play! A guide to your first chords and strumming will get you making music before you learn more chords different strumming patterns andsome scales. Throughout this the included Audio Download allows you to hear each exercise as it should sound ensuring you play everything correctly and train your ear at the same time. As you learnfingerpicking the twelve-bar blues some tunes and other techniques you'll find you've gone from knowing nothing about the Guitar to being able to play songs chords and even with others. The Audio Download also featuresprofessionally-recorded backing tracks for the songs so that you can play along and sound great. The book also features a handy guide to the notes of the neck and a chord reference sheet.  If you'rean Absolute Beginner with no knowledge of how to play the Acoustic Guitar this book will guide you on this journey with pictures an audio download and practical advice from expert authorDavid Harrison. The Absolute Beginners series has taught millions to play from novice to confident player over the years. Now it's your turn!

In these lessons for the intermediate fingerstyle guitarist Dave Van Ronk presents his arrangements of blues and a classic rag. The book includes a conversation with Dave, a discography, 6 tunes in notation and tablature, and 3 CDs teaching each tune phrase by phrase. LESSON ONE: A blues in 12/8 with Leroy Carr's Midnight Hour Blues. Blood Red Moon follows played in a dropped D tuning. The lesson ends with Blind Lemon Jefferson's One Kind Favor. LESSON TWO: Sunday Street is an original Dave Van Ronk song and is an excellent example of Dave's arranging skills. Four choruses are taught demonstrating how this tune can develop. Bessie Smith's classic blues You've Been A Good Old Wagon is taught in the key of E. LESSON THREE: Dave's arrangement of St. Louis Tickle was the first great challenge for fingerpickers interested in classic ragtime. This four sectioned rag is played in the keys of C and F. It is an excellent example of contemporary ragtime guitar. / Guitare (Fingerpick) / 32 pages / niveau : Intermédiaire / Partition/3-Cd Set - Format: 11,75 X 8,75

The Complete Guitar Player Acoustic Songbook features a huge collection of 50 acoustic hits from all genres for Guitar. Each song includes full lyrics and Guitar chords as well as strumming and pickingpatterns making this perfect for the aspiring acoustic Guitarist.   Every song included in this Guitar songbook is a bona fide acoustic classic perfect for singalongs at parties or just a strum on asummer's day in the park. Songs like Hey Soul Sister by Train Wonderwall by Oasis and Ho Hey by The Lumineers represent the best in unplugged and fun chill-out music. The book isdesigned to be accessible and enjoyable showcasing the best songs by the best songwriters like Bob Dylan Mumford & Sons The Beatles and Adele. Songs from the past and the present are included so there will be something foreveryone in this acoustic songbook.   Each song has been carefully arranged for Guitar and Voice including the melody lyrics and Guitar chord shapes. Not only this but there are also suggestedstrumming or picking patterns to help you nail the exact sound of the song straight away. This acoustic Guitar songbook is ideal for beginners and intermediate Guitarists looking to expand their repertoire with acoustic songs newand old whereas absolute beginners new to the Guitar might find that the four books of the famous Complete Guitar Player series by Russ Shipton will help them out with the basics.    With these 50acoustic Guitar songs you'll be singing strumming and fingerpicking your way through the folk pop and rock canon in no time at all. The Complete Guitar Player Acoustic Songbook would make a stellar addition toany guitarist's bookshelf and every one of these great songs will make sure that everyone is singing along.

Concentrating on the melody or harmony of a piece is a great exercise for when you have to do both. For this book author James Douglas Esmond has chosen a dozen pieces out of the classical domain which are not found in the standard guitar repertoire. The pieces in this book start off fairly easy and progress to more challenging ones for intermediate guitarists. One guitar is great but two is twice as nice and working with other musicians is great fun. So get together with another guitarist and have a wonderful time discovering these guitar duet pieces! The accompanying CD features 24 tracks.

Do you wonder why lots of practice on scales and arpeggios hasn't made you feel fluent and creative when soloing' If so, then this book is the missing link for you! Line Games is an organized series of practical studies for the development of single-note guitar technique and jazz vocabulary simultaneously. Many examples are transcribed from the recorded solos of great jazz guitarists (Wes Montgomery, Pat Martino, Joe Pass, etc.) and then the book gives you the tools to develop complete fluency in creating similar lines on your own! Randy Vincent's Line Games is a serious, well-conceived book on jazz guitar. It has a tremendous amount of useful information which can be truly helpful to guitarists seeking thorough knowledge and training in jazz music.' ' Kenny Burrell Topics Covered Include: Basic six-note scales commonly used by the jazz greats. How to use all of the chromatic notes to make playing inside the chord changes sound more interesting and melodic. Triad pairs for modern-sounding lines, as used by all the great players from Coltrane on. Exercises that will give you the tools to create many interesting chord extensions from a few simple arpeggios. How to build long lines across many chord changes. How to use thematic development for more cohesive solos. Fingerings often given to aid in getting these lines under your fingers. Plus much more! 156 pages. More Endorsements: This book is probably the most complete explanation of linear improvisation as applied to the guitar that I have come across. Randy Vincent goes into his subjects, which include a novel take on hexatonic applications, chromatic neighbor tones, and various scale forms and arpeggios, with unprecedented thoroughness. It is also refreshing to see the emphasis on thematic development, and I like how some of the great recorded guitar solos are often used as illustrative examples. I highly recommend it.' ' Ben Monder Randy has come up with another Winner. This is one of the most comprehensive studies I have ever encountered concerning single line improvisation!' ' Vic Juris With all the books on jazz improvisation available I didn't think it was possible to find one that offers a new perspective but Randy Vincent's Line Games does just that. It's a great book! There are many real- world examples of players using the archetypal bebop hexatonic sound and many examples of ways to practice and utilize the sound. In suggesting ways of practicing and using the scale Randy gets you started, but it's up to the reader to strike out on their own ' in my opinion the best way to really grasp a sound or concept. There is a whole lot of material here and I'm looking forward to working with it for a long time. Thanks, Randy!!' ' Bruce Saunders With the plethora jazz guitar books on the market today, one must sort through dozens to find one that yields the results of a tried and true method for learning to play jazz as applied to the guitar. I was pleasantly surprised to find a new book that I feel to have such qualities. This being the jazz guitar book written by Randy Vincent called Line Games for Sher Music Co. Inside, you'll find dozens of examples, explanations, techniques, and the application of the jazz language employed by all the great jazz guitarists we know and love. Great job, Randy!' ' Henry Johnson

Arranged For Fingerstyle Guitar-Books have been written about Bix Beiderbecke movies have been made. His incandescent talent meteoric rise and tragic death at 28: this is the stuff of myth and legend. We are fortunate that we have quite a few incomparable recordings. Although it is said that they only capture a shadow of Bix???s sound you can hear right away what the fuss was all about. As Ernie Hawkins attempted to do with some Louis Armstrong songs in an earlier DVD set (Louis and Bix it is said had opportunities toplay together and greatly admired each other) here he is playing and teaching some favorite Bix songs on guitar. Once again the extraordinary fingerpicking style developed by Rev Gary Davis shines through making this approach to the jazz of the 1920???s possible. These songs may be challenging but they are fun and rewarding to learn and play. Hopefully learning this style via these songs will open the student to new possibilities.This lesson is over 2 hours. The arrangements are for the intermediate to advance players. They are multi-section compositions with lots of fingerpicking challenges. But all your hard work will be very worthwhile as these tunes are some of the greatest in the early jazz repertoire. Ernie teaches phrase by phrase and then uses the split-screen so you can carefully study what each hand is doing. A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD.

Boxed Set with Four Publications and One DVD in One Great Package-Get started playing guitar with real songs and solid lessons covering everything you need: notes chords scales techniques and much more! The method's well-paced and logical teaching sequence will get beginning guitarists playing more easily than ever before and music from famous composers like Beethoven Bach and Mozart will keep them playing and having fun. This boxed set includes four books (Classical Guitar Method Guitar Chord Chart Guitar Scale Chart and Guitar Theory Chart) and a Classical Guitar DVD with lessons demonstrating playing position rest and free strokes thumb and finger combinations chordal harmonics bass lines slurred notes sustained bassnotes barre technique arpeggios vibrato and more. Works for those who want to teach themselves or with a teacher!