Irish Song Books

Learn To Play 'Irish Tenor Banjo' one of the best and simplest Irish tenor banjo tutor books ever written...by all Ireland champion Owen Hackett.

A collection of irish jogs in melodic style for the 5 string banjo by Ron Hughes

All the tracks from the album arranged for piano, voice and guitar. Full piano/vocal arrangements of each track from the hit album complete with lyrics and guitar chord boxes.

On taking up a musical instrument, it is only natural for the beginner to want to reap some rewards as quickly as possible. After all, music is for the enjoyment of the player, as well as the listener.

The Banjo Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily with incredible backing tracks to help you sound like a bona fide pro! Just follow the banjo tab, listen to the demo track on the CD to hear how the banjo should sound, and then play along with the separate backing tracks. The CD is playable on any CD player and also is enhanced so Mac and PC users can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing the pitch! Each Banjo Play-Along pack features eight cream of the crop songs. This volume includes: Ain't It Enough · The Cave · Forget the Flowers · Ho Hey · Little Lion Man · Live and Die · Switzerland · Wagon Wheel.

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.

Fifty new tunes of Irish dance music composed by Tomás O Canainn, suitable for all traditional players. Many of the tunes in this book have already entered the repertoire of musicians in Ireland and further afield.

In four volumes, each book contains fifty popular Irish songs with music, words and guitar chords plus useful notes on each song.

In four volumes, each book contains fifty popular Irish songs with music, words and guitar chords plus useful notes on each song.

Contains over forty songs in the versions made famous by this world renowned Irish group. Includes fascinating profiles of the members of the group, plus photographs. Complete with lyrics, music and guitar chords.

Gaelic songs are beautiful to listen to and to sing, but until now it has been extremely difficult for anyone without knowledge of the Irish language (Gaelic) to sing the songs of that tradition. A must for anyone who has always longed to sing the old songs of Ireland, this book and CD decodes the Irish language for those who aspire to sing these songs without them having to undertake an Irish language course.

Easy Irish And Celtic Melodies and accompanying audio present Irish, Celtic and British Isles folk melodies for the 5-string banjo.

The book demonstrates contemporary Celtic fingerstyle banjo in G tuning using modern techniques. 32 airs and song melodies are presented, with chords written in standard notation and tablature.

The Banjo Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily. Just follow the banjo tab, listen to the audio to hear how the banjo should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The book includes access to audio tracks online for download or streaming featuring Playback+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down the audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right. This volume includes: Billy in the Low Ground · Cluck Old Hen · Devil's Dream · Fisher's Hornpipe · Little Maggie · Over the Waterfall · The Red Haired Boy · Soldier's Joy.

O'Carolan's best-loved harp tunes are notated in a contemporary style that makes them accessible to all instrumentalists. This ideal collection with accompanying audio lays bare 20 classic Irish compositions for melody and backing players using standard notation and chords. For all 5-string banjo players, fretting and picking-hand fingerings are included in the transcriptions which match the play-along tracks. This is Hanway's fourth collection demonstrating Celtic fingerstyle banjo in G tuning. It is part of a Celtic 5-string series that includes Mel Bay's Easy Irish and Celtic Tunes for 5-String Banjo: Best-Loved Jigs and Reels (2012) and Mel Bay's Easy Irish andCeltic Melodies for 5-String Banjo: Best-Loved Airs and Session Tunes (2013). Tom Hanway's pioneering work, Mel Bay's Complete Book of Irish & Celtic 5-String Banjo (1998), was acclaimed by Bluegrass Unlimited magazine (1999) "as 'the bible' for any 5-string player with an interest in this joyous music." The current collection breathes life into the Gaelic classical melodies of Ireland. Access to online audio download.

Rob MacKillop presents 20 wonderful fingerstyle blues arrangements and compositions in DADGAD tuning. The styles covered in this book include country blues, boogie woogie left-hand piano blues, early jazz blues, gut-bucket blues and modal blues. Great traditional songs are included such as St. James Infirmary Blues, St. Louis Blues, C. C. Rider and more, alongside 15 full-length studies. The book begins with easy arrangements, progressing to intermediate and more advanced ones - in short, these blues studies will improve your technique through playable 12-bar tunes. A wide array of chord and scale fingerings are also provided, including pentatonic minor and major scales, bluesscales, diminished arpeggios and scales, 7th chords, whole-tone scales and the super Locrian mode and much more! All the tunes presented have accompanying audio recorded by Rob MacKillop and are available to download.

Twenty one of your favourite Irish songs, arranged by Gary Meisner for accordion.

A collection of forty Irishsongs with complete words music and guitar chords. Straight from the hearts and hearths of Ireland: a wonderful collection of Ireland's finest folk songs and ballads. Every type of Irish song has found its way into this book - from comic song to lament and musc more.

A collection of forty Irishsongs with complete words music and guitar chords. A second collection of great Irish songs from A Bunch of Thyme to the Wild Rover> Here is a resounding brace of grand old Irish songs to enliven any sing-song, hooley or traditional session.

First wet yer whistle, then proceed with this superb bacchanalian feast of good old Irish songs, ballads and tearjerkers as they may be frequently heard in the bars, lounges, saloons, shebeens and snugs of Ireland. This book contains thirty six of the very best Irish pub songs, with complete words, music and guitar chords.

Over 100 classic Irish songs in three categories: Thro' Tara's Halls, All in Americay, and The Troubles. These songs chronicle the struggle and voyages of Irish and Irish-American history. From the polished lines of Moore and Yeats, to the rollicking rhymes of Percy French, to the anguished cry of the wife upon seeing her crippled husband back from the wars, from Bendemeer's Stream to Brooklyn City...all the good times and hard times in between are portrayed in these songs. Include historical information, melody line, lyrics, and guitar chords.

50 Irish Ballads With Only 6 Chords. In three volumes, each book contains fifty popular Irish songs with words and pictures. Only 6 guitar chords required to accompany them all.

Containing the lyrics, music, guitar chords and chord diagrams for 101 famous Irish ballads.

Celebrating the distinctive style of Mick Foster and Tony Allen. This book contains 14 of their best songs including all their UK hit singles. Arranged for voice and piano. Complete with guitar symbols.

A member of the Irish gentry, William Percy French after taking his degree, turned to the life of a strolling entertainer, becoming a most prolific writer of comedy songs, many of which are now accepted as part of the Irish folk song heritage. James N. Healy has brought together all his known songs together with notes as to how they came to be written. Words, music and chords.