Guitar Books
The Complete Acoustic Lap Steel Guitar Method is the perfect step-by-step book for beginning and intermediate steel guitar players. Fernando Perez explains in detail every technique necessary to play steel guitar in styles such as Hawaiian, Blues, Country and more. The book teaches you to apply techniques and demonstrates their various purposes. Lessons range from holding the bar efficiently to intricate slant bar harmonizing tricks. This book is an extremely well-written complete method for beginners and is a wonderful additional reference text for guitarists who can already play steel guitar. Written in notation and tablature. Includes access to online audio.
A case size edition of Mel Bay's best-selling Deluxe Encyclopedia of Guitar Chords.- Chord forms uniquely broken into melody forms, inside forms, rhythm guitar forms, and bottom four-string chord forms. Thousands of great-sounding guitar chords presented.- Each diagram shows notes in the chord, fingering, and essential chord tones on the bottom and top note of the chord form. Chords are shown in every key.- Chord forms include major, minor, diminished, augmented, seventh, minor seventh, seventh augmented fifth, seventh flat fifth, major seventh, major seventh flat third, major seventh flat fifth, suspended fourth, seventh suspended fourth, sixth, minor sixth,ninth, minor ninth, major ninth, ninth sharp fifth, ninth flat fifth, seventh flat nine, seventh sharp nine, sixth add nine, eleventh, augmented eleventh, thirteenth, thirteenth flat nine, thirteenth flat nine flat five.
A very popular collection of eight attractive pieces, drawn from many parts of the world. The pieces are suitable for the first year player who is ready to study music in two voices, and have been chosen for their musical value while remaining within strict technical limits. Younger players can use the book as a companion volume to Books 2 and 3 of The Guitarist’s Way.
Progressive Guitar Method For Young Beginners: Book 2 introduces five new notes (E, F, G, D and F#) and five simplified chord shapes (G, D7, C, G7 and D).
Progressive Guitar Method ForYoungBeginners: Book 2 contains very easy arrangements of over 20 songs and introduces the student to eighth notes, eighth note strum patterns and dotted quarter notes.
Songs include Pop Goes The Weasel, ForHe's AJolly Good Fellow, Michael Finnegan, The Muffin Man, London Bridge and many more.
Time Pieces for Guitar is a two-volume anthology of well-crafted and idiomatic arrangements of music from the 13th century to the present day. The pieces are presented chronologically within each volume and include the year in which they were written, so you get a sense of the different styles of music through time.
Time Pieces for Guitar is a two-volume anthology of well-crafted and idiomatic arrangements of music from the 13th century to the present day. The pieces are presented chronologically within each volume and include the year in which they were written, so you get a sense of the different styles of music through time.
This 4-volume teaching series continues to be enormously successful and popular. It aims to stimulate young players in particular, with all the new technical and musical ideas introduced one by one in a lucid and logical fashion.The light hearted illustrations by Peter Nuttall and Gerald Garcia are another attractive feature of the series.
The First 15 Lessons series provides a step-by-step lesson plan for the absolute beginner, complete with audio tracks, video lessons, and real songs! Designed for self-teaching or for use with an instructor, you'll build a solid foundation as you work through each lesson, learning the basics of the instrument and music reading while practicing the many exercises, concepts and song excerpts within. Must-know instruction so you can start playing right away, with a free online tuner and metronome! The electric guitar book, written in rhythm tab notation, features lessons on: guitar fundamentals, chords, strumming, arpeggios, syncopation, hammer-ons & pull-offs, slides, string bending & vibrato, double stops, harmonics, alternate picking, palm muting and scales & basic theory. Includes guitar parts from 33 songs: American Pie · Brown Eyed Girl · Crazy Little Thing Called Love · Hit Me with Your Best Shot · James Bond Theme · Layla · Runnin' down a Dream · Smells like Teen Spirit · Smoke on the Water · Under the Bridge · When I Come Around · You Really Got Me · and more. Fast-paced learning for your first year of instruction!
Easy and accessible guitar solos with minimal demands on the left-hand so that the student can concentrate on a stable relaxed right tirando technique. Other techniques such as apoyando, tremolo, simple chords, tambora and rasgueado are also covered. This primer was planned to precede the 3-volume Solo Now! series, but is suitable as a stand-alone easy solo book.
If you're new to the guitar, you are probably eager to learn some songs. This book provides a convenient combo of chords, tab, and lyrics for 50 of the biggest campfire sing-alongs so you can put your new guitar skills to work! This collection includes: Bad Moon Rising · Blowin' in the Wind · Brown Eyed Girl · California Dreamin' · Folsom Prison Blues · Free Fallin' · Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) · Hallelujah · Have You Ever Seen the Rain? · Hey Jude · A Horse with No Name · I'd like to Teach the World to Sing · Knockin' on Heaven's Door · Let It Be · The Lion Sleeps Tonight · Peaceful Easy Feeling · Puff the Magic Dragon · Ring of Fire · (Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay · Stand by Me · Sunshine on My Shoulders · Sweet Caroline · Take Me Home, Country Roads · This Land Is Your Land · Wanted Dead or Alive · Wellerman · You Are My Sunshine · and more.
SONGLIST
- 1. Flowers [Miley Cyrus]
- 2. Keep On Running [The Spencer Davis Group]
- 3. Since U Been Gone [Kelly Clarkson]
- 4. Go Your Own Way [Fleetwood Mac]
- 5. Come Together [The Beatles]
- 6. Do I Wanna Know? [Arctic Monkeys]
- 7. Headline Act [Rockschool Original]
- 8. Elevator Shoes [Rockschool Original]
- 9. Surfer Ticket [Rockschool Original]
Learn to use the entire fretboard with the Incredible Scale Finder! This book contains more than 1,300 scale diagrams for the most important 17 scale types, including major and minor scales, pentatonics, the seven major modes, diminished, melodic minor, harmonic minor, and more - in all 12 keys! Basic scale theory is also presented to help you apply these colorful sounds in your own music.