Guitar Music & Song Books

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 beagreat addition to your collection: Chattahoochee, Don’t Rock the Jukebox, God Bless the U.S.A., Guitars, Cadillacs, Liza Jane, My Maria, Nothing’s Changed Here, South Side of Dixie, Take This Job and Shove It, Tempted,ThankGod I’m a Country Boy, There’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 DanBowden.

70 songs with lyrics, melody lines, and chord frames for standard ukulele, baritone ukulele, guitar, mandolin, and banjo. Enjoy strumming and singing these Beatles classics with all your buddies! A great resource for beginning stringed instrument players who are ready to experience the fun of making music together! Songs include: All You Need Is Love · Back in the U.S.S.R. · Birthday · Can't Buy Me Love · Come Together · Day Tripper · Drive My Car · Eight Days a Week · Eleanor Rigby · Get Back · Good Day Sunshine · Got to Get You into My Life · A Hard Day's Night · Help! · Here Comes the Sun · Hey Jude · I Saw Her Standing There · I Want to Hold Your Hand · In My Life · Let It Be · The Long and Winding Road · Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) · Paperback Writer · Revolution · Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band · She Loves You · Ticket to Ride · Twist and Shout · Yellow Submarine · Yesterday · and more!

• 1. A Walk on Winkfield Row
• 2. Adirondack Lullaby
• 3. Emerald City
• 4. Funeral March of a Marionette
• 5. Good Dog
• 6. I Knew It Was You
• 7. Kristina
• 8. Lady Bird
• 9. Life's Too Short (To be in a bad mood)
• 10. My Backyard
• 11. The Most Beautiful Sky
• 12. Tuesday Blues
• 13. Wheelbarrow Boogie

Add to your repertoire with this collection of early jazz and swing standards! The companion CD features a two-guitar recording of each tune, and the book includes full guitar parts in standard notation and tab with chord diagrams, plus detailed notes on the song origins and arrangements. Includes 15 songs: After You've Gone · Avalon · Baby, Won't You Please Come Home · Ballin' the Jack · Hindustan · I Ain't Got Nobody (And Nobody Cares for Me) · Indiana (Back Home Again in Indiana) · Limehouse Blues · Poor Butterfly · Rose Room · Saint James Infirmary · St. Louis Blues · Tain't Nobody's Biz-ness If I Do · Till the Clouds Roll By · Whispering.

Zebracadabra, music for guitar. 17 original easy guitar solos by David Cottam. This collection of original music for guitar contains charming, witty & entertaining pieces that are easy to play, instantly attractive & make ideal repertoire for theearly guitarist. Featured pieces are - Have a Habanera! & Well of Sighs - are set on the ABRSM Guitar Syllabus from 2009, plus 15 other delightful easy pieces.

World traveling fingerstyle guitarist Pat Kirtley presents 17 solo guitar arrangements of traditional Irish tunes including a few original compositions in the same vein by himself, Pierre Bensusan, and Duck Baker. As all of the tunes in this 1997 recording were arranged in altered tunings (DADGAD, EADEAE or DADEAD), each appears in both standard notation and tablature with insightful performance notes. In general, these transcriptions from Pat Kirtley's 1997 album of the same title are extremely accurate: The Red-Haired Boy, however, played as a duet with Steve Rector on the album - appears as a solo arrangement in this book. Recommended for the intermediate to advanced player,the author provides insightful performance notes for each tune.

Sing and play the best songs from the biggest names in rock and pop with this new addition to the popular Buskers series. This comprehensive songbook contains 101 acoustic classics by artists ranging from the Beatles and Joan Baez to KT Tunstall and Jeff Buckley. All your favourite songs are arranged with lyrics, melody and chord boxes, in a ring-bound, conveniently-sized book that can be used for gigs, practice or just for fun!

As part of Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop Audio Series this comprehensive and thorough collection of fingerpicking Guitar lessons contains invaluable tips and instruction implemented throughout the arrangements in this book.The three audio CDs give 3 full hours of note-by-note, phrase-by-phrase instruction.

This fun and easy book and CD takes you from the very beginning. Learning right and left-hand techniques, learning your first chords, 18 great songs AND you painlessly learn them by reading notes. Anyone can do it. Steve's method and approach to learning to read notes is so simple that 4 year olds have done it. You will start with 4 simple notes. Steve then teaches songs using just those four notes. He systematically adds a few more notes at a time bundled with easy to understand instructions and songs so that in a short time you will know all the notes, chords, strumming patterns to play hundreds of songs. This is a perfect primer for many of Steve's best sellers and other author'books. Audio CD included.

In this book you'll learn creative, fun techniques and ideas on playing backup. Playing backup means responding in a sensitive manner with singers and other musicians. So let's take a serious look at what to do when you're not soloing. The question is: to play or not to play?

15 favorites arranged for solo guitar in notes and tab, including: Down by the Salley Gardens · The Foggy Dew · The Galway Piper · The Gypsy Rover · Londonderry Air · Molly Malone · Sweet Rosie O'Grady · Water Is Wide · The Wearing of the Green · When Irish Eyes Are Smiling · Whiskey in the Jar · Wild Rover · and more.

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.

This book is a complete guide to traditional Irish music. It contains fifty tunes, advice on alternate tunings, chord substitution, technique for accompaniment and solo playing and much more. It also has a bibliography,discography, and Sections On Irish music in general. The book is complete with an accompanying demo CD which features Paul de Grae playing thirty-one tunes from the 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.