Guitar Tutor & Chord Books

Learn to play chords and scales on the pedal steel Guitar. This simple-to-follow guide includes over 1,100 chords and 430 scale forms.

The perfect introduction for anyone just discovering the tenor guitar. This easy-to-use book and audio pack also functions as a crossover method for folks who already play guitar, mandolin, or tenor banjo. Many useful exercises, fun songs and popular arrangements await! Topics covered include: tuning, scales, arpeggios, sequences, position shifting, chord strumming, single-note picking, fingerpicking, hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, and more.

Finally, a method solely devoted to lefties, complete with photos, diagrams, and grids designed especially for the left-handed player! Chords, scales, riffs, strumming, various styles.C.D included.

This book groups chords in a new way that makes looking up and learning new chords easier. The chords are grouped by family, so the chords you are likely to find together in any one piece are next to each other in the book. You can understand how they are related at a glance. Chord diagrams also indicate the position of the root and the third. Includes both moveable and non-moveable chords.

Follow the brilliant but ill-fated career of the legendary hero of fifties country music in this superb songbook. Contains 26 classic songs in easy-to-intermediate arrangements for fingerpicking and flatpicking guitar, including 'Lovesick Blues', 'Move It On Over', 'You Win Again' & more.

With First Lessons Lap Steel Guitar, author Jay Leach has created a fun, easy-to-follow approach to learning the Lap Steel Guitar.

In this comprehensive book, Leach explains the basics of the instrument including bar control, picking, and string groups, with fun exercises to play. First Lessons Lap Steel Guitar also includes several catchy tunes and accompanying online audio with play-along tracks.

Made famous by the legendary Jerry Byrd, the C6 tuning [CEGACE] for the non-pedal lap steel guitar has many advantages due to its versatility. Includes Audio Download link.

The most comprehensive guitar chord resource ever, now available for the left-hand. Photos and diagrams for over 2,600 guitar chords.

Step by step pictures take you from first day exercises to playing along with a backing track. Absolute Beginners has been designed to tell you everything you need to know from the very first time you pick up your guitar. With online audio.

Today's top praise songs scored in notation and tab for easy to play fingerstyle guitar. Songs include Sanctuary, As the Deer, Give Thanks, Lord, Reign in Me, Draw Me Close and many more. A companion CD is included. On the CD each piece is played twice, once as a guitar solo with accompaniment and again as a back-up track so the guitarist may practice the piece and use in a worship setting: ideal for small group or church performance.

Reading music is a skill that all musicians should learn regardless of their instrument. This book is designed to eliminate the apprehension guitarists have in regards to reading music written in a variety of keys. In the firstfewpages, a number of musical symbols and terms are explained. This is followed by etudes and exercises written only in standard notation in the major keys of C, F, B flat, E flat, A flat, D flat, G, D, and A and the minor keysof A,D, G, C, F, B flat, E, B, and F sharp. Additional musical symbols and terms are gradually introduced throughout the practice pieces with helpful, clear explanations. Chord symbols and diagrams are provided forteacheraccompaniment.

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.

Whether you play rock, blues, Jazz, Country or any other style the correct chord information is contained in this essential guide.

First Lessons Bass is intended to introduce beginning students to the fundamental concepts of playing the electric bass. The material covered in this book is approximately the material covered in the first 8 lessons of private bass instruction. This book makes use of the "3-finger" left hand position commonly found in double bass technique. The emphasis on left hand technique allows the student to develop a consistent fingering approach to the fingerboard, reduces unnecessary strain on the left hand, and makes the bass more accessible to younger students or students with small hands. After the left hand technique has been established, the book introduces the student toimportant elements of bass line construction including blues patterns, the root-fifth relationship, and common rhythmic patterns. - Introduction for beginning students to the fundamental concepts of playing the electric bass.- Book is approximately the material covered in the first 8 lessons of private bass instruction.- Makes use of the "3-finger" left hand position commonly found in double bass technique.- Offers student important elements of bass line construction: blues patterns, root-fifth relationship, and common rhythmic patterns.- Includes access to online audio and video.

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.

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.