Music Of The Islands Book 1

Instrument/Discipline : Ukulele Style/Genre : Pop/Rock Support : Livre The latest in the popular Ukulele Playlist series: over 30 classic songs to strum and sing, specially arranged for the ukulele! Includes full lyrics, strumming patterns and ukulele chord diagrams. All Along The Watchtower (Bob Dylan) Angels (Robbie Williams) Blue Moon (Elvis Presley) Bright Eyes (Art Garfunkel) Can’t Get You Out Of My Head (Kylie Minogue) Coffee & TV (Blur) Cum On Feel The Noize (Slade) Don’t You Want Me (Human League) Down Under (Men At Work) Everybody Needs Somebody To Love (Blues Brothers) Faith (George Michael) Great Balls Of Fire (Jerry Lee Lewis) Greatest Day (Take That) Higher Ground (Red Hot Chili Peppers) I Don’t Wanna Dance (Eddy Grant) I’m Yours (Jason Mraz) (Is This The Way To) Amarillo (Tony Christie) Islands In The Stream (Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers) Jenny Don’t Be Hasty (Paolo Nutini) Living Doll (Cliff Richard) Material Girl (Madonna) My Baby Just Cares For Me (Nina Simone) Perfect Day (Lou Reed) Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head (Burt Bacharach) Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll (Ian Dury & The Blockheads) Smooth Criminal (Michael Jackson) Sound Of The Underground (Girls Aloud) Stand By Your Man (Tammy Wynette) Tainted Love (Soft Cell) These Boots Are Made For Walking (Nancy Sinatra) Tragedy (The Bee Gees) Waterloo (ABBA) YMCA (Village People) You Can’t Hurry Love (The Supremes)

Hawaiian slack key Guitar (Ki Ho'alu) is one of the world's great acoustic Guitar traditions. This tradition includes virtuoso Guitar pieces but the majority of songs played slack key are classic Hawaiian melodies eitherplayed as instrumentals or as accompaniment to vocals with instrumental breaks between the verses. The term ''slack key'' does not refer to a type of Guitar but rather to any Guitar played in the slack key style that is in alternate tunings with ''slacked'' strings and fingerstyle technique. Acknowledged slack key master Keola Beamer is a member of a family known for its musical artistry for generations. We are fortunate to have him writing inconjunction with veteran Mel Bay author educator and multi-instrumentalist Mark Nelson who simply followed his love of the music to the Islands. Written in standard notation and tablature to accommodate numerous alternatetunings this book is presented in four sections: 1) The most common tuning introduced by fairly easy songs2) Illustrations of how to build your own arrangements3) A presentation of various slackkey tunings4) A selection of duets in the slack key style.Historical and cultural insights are offered throughout in the spirit of aloha producing an informative musically enlightening book with souland humor. The companion audio download available online features tuning tracks and informal introductions of the audio content by the authors plus some beautiful slack key music.

With this volume the reader is pleasantly surprised with two books in one- Section One by Alec Slater and Section Two by Lisa Schmitz. Alec's portion is intended as a guide for the clawhammer or frailing banjo player with someprevious experience in this style. He stresses the fact that this style of music can be fully learned only from within the oral tradition in which it grew. The instruction included here is meant to provide a review and not totake the place of qualified teacher. Alec recommends that '...anyone wanting to get this playing right should find someone in your area who plays and have him/her teach you. Listen to it watch it and make it your own.' InSection Two Lisa Schmits presents an extensive collection of 163 jigs reels polkas hornpipes strathspeys waltzes and songs from Ireland Scotland the Shetland Islands Cape Breton New England and Southern Appalachia forbanjo solo. The national origin of each tune is indicated. Lisa offers personal authoritative settings of a great variety of tunes at an intermediate level. Written in tablature only.

Thomas Fellow, author of the successful standard work Fellow Guitar Book and a famous concert guitarist who performs all over the world (European Guitar Quartet, Friend `n Fellow, Hands on Strings), expands his Guitar Music Collection with this and the following volume 2 with an extensive amount of compositions in his own modern, stylistically open sound language.This book of 18 DELIGHTFUL CROSSOVER PIECES is aimed at interested students, concert guitarists as well as ambitious amateurs. The pieces are demanding (difficulty level 4 ) and, thanks to the additional notation in TABS, are a perfect addition to the repertoire of modern guitar literature, even for players who cannot read sheet music.FINGERFOOD XXL Vol. 1 includes shorter compositions (STARTER) and a whole series of ballads (SWEET). All pieces are concertante, but each in its own way. And so fingerstyle influences can be recognised as well as Brazilian sounds, sometimes Fellow approaches jazz, sometimes pop music and always conveys joy of playing and listening pleasure.STARTER: The PostmanWakashPilgrimThe FalconerSilence (Nocturne)Can You Kepp A SecretFlow MachineZardozSWEET: The River Flows To The OceanGalapagos IslandsSuaveMimosaDreamcatcherTiffanySilent BeautyBrokenVelvet WaltzEmilia / Guitare / Schott

Book with Audio and Video Access. Preface by Jay Ungar, composer of Ashokan Farewell. A Festival of Violin

Book with Audio and Video Access. Preface by Jay Ungar, composer of Ashokan Farewell. A Festival of Violin