Thinkin' Big

The follow-up to the hugely successful Essential Acoustic Playlist, this companion volume features another 70 classic tunes for the acoustic guitar. This book focuses on classic indie hits from the 80s, 90s and beyond. With names like Pulp, Manic Street Preachers, Supergrass, Radiohead, Blur and The Verve all represented, acoustic indie fans need look no further. The book also features a couple of tracks rarely seen in print, such as the classic 'Shine On' from The House Of Love and Jeff Buckley's beautiful version of 'Lilac Wine'. Each song is presented very simply, with lyrics and chord symbols, so there's no need to be able to read music. As with all products on this site, the arrangements are guaranteed accurate and have been checked by an experienced editor. The chord shapes given are authentic and sound great on an acoustic guitar. The book features simple 'lyrics and chords' format; authentic and easy chord shapes given for every song; includes capo and tuning information where appropriate. Songlist: (I'm Gonna) Cry Myself Blind (Primal Scream); A Design For Life (Manic Street Preachers); A Little Like You (Grand Drive); A Man Needs To Be Told (The Charlatans); A Minha Meninha (The Bees); Ain't That Enough (Teenage Fanclub); All Together Now (The Farm); Alright (Supergrass); Am I Wrong (Mull Historical Society); American English (Idlewild); Average Man (Turin Brakes); Beetlebum (Blur); Buy It In Bottles (Richard Ashcroft); Can You Dig It? (The Mock Turtles); Caught By The River (Doves); Coffee And TV (Blur); Come Away With Me (Norah Jones); Come Back To What You Know (Embrace); Common People (Pulp); Crazy Beat (Blur); Creep (Radiohead); Distant Sun (Crowded House); Don't Let Me Down Gently (The Wonder Stuff); Don't Think You're The First (The Coral); Everlong (Foo Fighters); Fallen Angel (Elbow); Fastboy (The Bluetones); Forget About Tomorrow (Feeder); Getting Away With It (Electronic); Go To Sleep (Radiohead); Grace (Supergrass); Here's Where The Story Ends (The Sundays); High And Dry (Radiohead); History (The Verve); Hooligan (Embrace); I Need Direction (Teenage Fanclub); I Will (Radiohead); In A Room (Dodgy); It's True That We Love One Another (The White Stripes); Just When You're Thinkin' Things Over (The Charlatans); La Breeze (Simian); Lilac Wine (Jeff Buckley); Live In A Hiding Place (Idlewild); Long Distance (Turin Brakes); Lucky (Radiohead); No Surprises (Radiohead); Only Happy When It Rains (Garbage); Out Of Time (Blur); Painkiller (Turin Brakes); Pass It On (The Coral); Personal Jesus (Johnny Cash); Pineapple Head (Crowded House); Poor Misguided Fool (Starsailor); Road Rage (Catatonia); Seen The Light (Supergrass); Seven Nation Army (The White Stripes); Shine On (The House Of Love); Silence Is Easy ( Starsailor); Sk8er Boi (Avril Lavigne); Stay Away From Me( The Star Spangles); The Final Arrears (Mull Historical Society); There There (Radiohead); Thinking About Tomorrow (Beth Orton); This Is How It Feels (Inspiral Carpets); Wake Up Boo! (The Boo Radleys); Words (Doves); Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (The Flaming Lips); You're So Pretty, We're So Pretty (The Charlatans); You've Got Her In Your Pocket (The White Stripes)

Devils & Dust; All the Way Home; Reno; Long Time Comin'; Black Cowboys; Maria's Bed; Silver Palomino; Jesus Was an Only Son; Leah; The Hitter; All I'm Thinkin' About; Matamoros Banks.

21 Huge hit songs arranged for Piano Voice & Guitar-The best and most popular Hits Of The Year are included here arranged for Piano Voice and Guitar. Featuring 21 huge hit songs fresh from the charts of the past year now ready to be played sung and strummedwell into the coming year. The biggest catchiest and best-loved of the 2015's chart-toppers are included here with songs by massive pop stars like Taylor Swift (Blank Space) Ed Sheeran (ThinkingOut Loud) and Sam Smith with his song for the 2015 James Bond film Writing's On The Wall.  Other chart hits from 2015 include LunchMoney Lewis' fantastically catchy Bills MarkRonson & Bruno Mars' throwback hit Uptown Funk! and the bizarrely brilliant FourFiveSeconds by Rihanna Kanye West and Paul McCartney. Every song features a Vocal part Piano part and Guitar chord symbols andboxes as well as lyrics allowing you to learn to play the best Hits Of The Year as quickly as possible. Many of the songs in this book have been number one in the charts both in theUK and internationally making them well-loved by practically everyone. You'll enjoy playing the best songs of 2015 and everyone else will enjoy hearing them.  With 21 songs for Piano Voice andGuitar from the year's biggest and best artists Hits Of The Year 2015 is the best way to learn to play all the chart-toppers from the past year.

Music Theory In Band And Orchestra-The more students understand about the music the better they are able to perform it! This practical 56-page resource will build understanding and confidence by providing theory activities that balance rigor higher levelthinking and time. Music Theory in Band and Orchestra makes it possible to teach music theory through repertoire and connect and expand experiences to promote higher level thinking. Nineteen different duplicable customizable forms for class use.

Beautiful Airs and Ballads of the British Isles. This fingerstyle guitar collection features 20 engaging lyrical tunes from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales plus three original pieces by accomplished guitarist, trumpeter and composer William A. Bay, president, and editor-in-chief at Mel Bay Publications. Tasked with writing intermediate-level arrangements in either standard or dropped-D tuning, guitarist/arranger Raymond Gonzalez displays uncommon music rethinking skills while preserving the plaintive and lilting nature of these enduring melodies. Unique to these settings, you will find sparse, open-chord harmonies accentuated by double hammer-ons and pull-offs, and the odd harmonic mixed with normal tones within a melodic line? all reminiscent of gentle waves washing up against a rocky island shore. Conceived to be played on either steel or nylon-string guitar, these pieces are written in both standard notation and tablature. Includes online access to the author?s own audio recordings.

A Fractured Fable of Frogs Folks and Falling Skies-Once upon a time... Talking frogs? A falling sky? A town full of confused folk? What is really happening and who can answer these questions? The librarian? The coach? The Mayor and town council? The sweet and smart-thinkingRachel? With song dance and a fast moving script Thwacked! unfolds to reveal these and many other delightful characters as they attempt to unravel the mystery in a fairytale world.Whether your cast is small orlarge this 35-minute musical will involve all of your students and delight your audience with the amusing dialogue charming songs and clever story. Grades 4-8. Available Separately: Teacher Edition; Singer Edition (5-packoctavo-sized books); Listening CD; Enhanced StudioTrax CD; Preview Pack (1 Singer Edition/Listening CD Combo); Performance Kit (1 Teacher Edition 20 Singer Editions 1 Enhanced StudioTrax CD).

The Physiology Of Guitar Playing: Functional Anatomy And Physiomechanics-This comprehensive guide to the physiology of Guitar playing is the culmination of three decades of deep exploration of the guitarist's playing mechanism and is the most detailed presentation of Ricardo Iznaola'sthinking about these matters to date. Structured in three chapters Chapter 1 surveys basic anatomy and physiology of the upper limb with additional sections discussing general pedagogical considerations. Chapter 2 devoted to the right hand presents detailed information regarding digital joint behavior in general and as applied in actual activity on the guitar as well as introducing an analytical system to study and describe positionalattitudes or `frames' adopted by the hand in the course of playing. Chapter 3 discusses at length left-hand physiomechanics taking the concepts of shifting and mobility as fundamental categories encompassing all aspects ofleft-hand technique. Twenty-six anatomical figures over fifty photos and more than sixty musical examples with access to online video amply illustrate the text. 'In the spirit of ground-breaking scientific pioneers celebrated performer and pedagogue Ricardo Iznaola offers the guitar world the first volume of Summa Kitharologica a comprehensive and highly insightful examination of guitar technique in a remarkable mixture of soaring eruditionand down-to-earth practical and applicable approaches to the instrument. Like a modern-day Charles Darwin of the guitar his insatiable passion for discovery keen eye of the `naturalist' and relentless analytical mind havecarefully and methodically recorded previously little-known or little-recognized observations relationships and nuances about the natural principles at work in artful guitar playing. For guitar instructors serious students andeven advanced performers who desire to go beyond the `what' of guitar technique and delve into its `whys' and `hows' this may well be the definitive text.' - Henry Adams former editor Guitar and Lute

John Tavener's Coplas composed in 1970 for unaccompanied SATB Choir.'Coplas is a short anthem for voices and tape. It belongs to a much larger work called 'Last Rites' which I have beenthinking about for about a year. It is based on the mystical idea of St. John of the Cross which obsesses me - 'the more I live the more I must die.' Hence the deliberately static nature of Coplas.In once sense Coplas is aprolonged decoration of the 'et sepultus est' cadence from the Crucifixus in Bach's Mass in B minor. In another sense I think of it not so much as my music but a way of listening to Bach's music.' - JohnTavener

A Fractured Fable of Frogs Folks and Falling Skies-Once upon a time... Talking frogs? A falling sky? A town full of confused folk? What is really happening and who can answer these questions? The librarian? The coach? The Mayor and town council? The sweet and smart-thinkingRachel? With song dance and a fast moving script Thwacked! unfolds to reveal these and many other delightful characters as they attempt to unravel the mystery in a fairytale world.Whether your cast is small orlarge this 35-minute musical will involve all of your students and delight your audience with the amusing dialogue charming songs and clever story. For Grades 4-8. Available Separately: Teacher Edition; Singer Edition (5-packoctavo-sized books); Listening CD; Enhanced StudioTrax CD; Preview Pack (1 Singer Edition/Listening CD Combo); Performance Kit (1 Teacher Edition 20 Singer Editions 1 Enhanced StudioTrax CD).

Classic James Taylor songs are known for their introspective and understated quality and are arranged here for piano and guitar with vocals including; Everyday Up On The Roof and more.