Music & Song Books by Instrument

Christmas Strumming will help you play your favourite Christmas songs quickly and easily, with incredible backing tracks to help you sound like a bona fide pro!

This collection of 20 fingerstyle studies for the ukelele is written for uke players looking to expand their prowess on the instrument. The studies cover a vast array of styles and genres as wide-ranging as blues, jazz, minimalism and serialism, showcasing the versatility of the instrument. Each study is designed to be fundamentally pedagogical while simultaneously written with performance and expression in mind. The studies touch on arpeggios, scales, modes, ii-V-I chord sequences, strumming, syncopation, campanella fingerings, improvisation, hammer-ons and pull-offs. Exercises are designed to build technique in both hands. Mastery of these studies will equip the ukulele player with the tools to tackle any style of music on the instrument.

This songbook contains 20 Elton John favourites arranged for Ukulele with melody line, lyrics and Ukulele chords.

Songs include: Bennie and the Jets • Can You Feel the Love Tonight • Candle in the Wind • Crocodile Rock • Daniel • Don't Go Breaking My Heart • Goodbye Yellow Brick Road • I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues • Rocket Man (I Think It's Gonna Be a Long Long Time) • Sad Songs (Say So Much) • Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting) • Your Song • and more!

Over 425 reels, jigs, "set-tunes," waltzes, marches, strathspeys, and airs transcribed from the playing of traditional fiddlers make this a "must have" title. Even the titles that have appeared in print before, feature new and intriguing details. Because each tune is a transcription of a specific performance by an individual player, many subtleties of style--such as ornamentation, double stops, and slurs—are included. Also included are each player’s melodic idiosyncrasies—called twists in local parlance. You will find living, breathing versions of tunes filled with the vitality of a people whose great love for their music is expressed in every bow-stroke.  Includes access to online audio.

Outstanding arrangements of more than 20 beloved classical pieces: Barcarolle • Funeral March of a Marionette • Für Elise • Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring • La donna e mobile • Polovtsian Dance Theme • Pomp and Circumstance • The Sleeping Beauty Waltz • Theme from Swan Lake • Trumpet Voluntary • and more.

Melody, lyrics and chord diagrams for standard G-C-E-A tuning on 30 traditional Irish songs, including: 'Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms', 'Carrickfergus', 'Danny Boy', 'Finnegan's Wake', 'The Galway Piper', 'The Irish Washerwoman', 'Molly Malone (Cockles & Mussels)', 'My Wild Irish Rose', 'Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (That's an Irish Lullaby)', 'The Wearing of the Green', 'When Irish Eyes Are Smiling' and more.

A wonderful collection of 34 popular ukulele songs in C tuning. Chords, melody, and lyrics are shown for each song, and the melody is presented in notation and tablature! Each song is shown both as melody only and an accompaniment arrangement. Also included in the back of the book are a chart of basic chords, a fingerboard note reference, and scale exercises.

This collection presents 39 favorite O'Carolan melodies in easily playable, lively arrangements for alto (treble) recorder, with guitar chords above the staves. Included are four original melodies by Richard Voss inspired by and in the style of the early master.

An exciting collection of 29 traditional tunes from Ireland, arranged for easy Mandolin. All tunes are written clearly in standard notation as well as Mandolin tablature. An accompanying online audio recording contains all the tunes, played at a manageable speed, with Guitar accompaniment.

Easy Banjo Solos For 5-String Banjo contains arrangements for 16 well-known songs by artists such as The Beatles, Hank Williams, Flatt & Scruggs, Woody Guthrie, Merle Travis and more.

The songs are presented in order of difficulty, beginning with basic rolls and chords and ending with 16th notes and fret-hand techniques. With Online Audio

Best selling author Fred Sokolow teaches you how to play blues on the Banjo with this instructional book and audio pack.
Includes classic blues tunes like Ain't Nobody's Business, Careless Love, Frankie and Johnny and St. Louis Blues.

18 of the Fab Four's finest for five string banjo!

World Melodies for the Accordion is a collection of best-loved songs from around the world.

30 songs of the season are presented in 3-chord arrangements for ukulele in this collection of carols.

Parlez-vous Français? This collection of popular compositions for flute illustrates French musical styles at the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century. Written information about the composers and French musical styles is included as well as keyboard accompaniments. The pieces include popular and enjoyable pieces by Debussy, Satie, Fauré, Boisdeffre, Saint-Saëns. On the CD, a native French speaker introduces all of the works in the book, helping you learn correct pronunciation of the composers’ names and performance markings. Play along with the piano accompaniment tracks for all pieces in the book. Accompaniment tracks reflect nuances in tempo, phrasing and articulation used by professional performers. All works are set at a performance tempo and can be used in the practice, studio or recital setting. . Includes access to online audio.

Alan Munde, one of the most respected contemporary banjo players, couples his deep understanding of the banjo with 17 of America’s best loved gospel songs. Book with Online Audio.

Traditional and Contempory Tunes. This collection compiled and arranged by Christine Martin and Anne Hughes was originally intended as a follow up book to Ho-ro-gheallaidh but changed into a selection of tunes from Scotland, Shetland, Canada Ireland and England, reflecting old and new tunes popular in sessions. Includes Music for a Found Harmonium.

20 favourite Scottish and Irish tunes, brilliantly arranged for fingerstyle Ukulele by Rob MacKillop. Titles include such well-known session tunes as Drowsy Maggie, The Kesh Jig, The Connaught Man's Rambles and The Wind That Shakes The Barley. Rob is a master of the campanella style of Ukulele fingering, which exploits the unique tuning of the ukulele, and which helps these airs, jigs and reels flow across the fingerboard effortlessly, at times sounding like a small Celtic Harp. The audio download available online contains all 20 pieces performed by Rob MacKillop, hailed in Celtic World as 'One of Scotland's finest musicians'.

The Bluegrass Picker's Tune Book is a must for all bluegrass pickers! Included are the melody line and chords to over two hundred favorite gospel and bluegrass songs.

The mandolin edition of Tone Poems presents notation and tablature for all 17 solos from the remarkable CD of the same name by David Grisman and Tony Rice.

A fun-to-play collection of 62 favorite Fiddle and Irish tunes arranged in notation and tablature for Mandolin solo. Ideal music for intermediate level technical study in sight reading.

This book is an anthology of Jack Hatfield's most successful teaching arrangements, jam session favorites, show tunes and original compositions. Although it is not a teaching method per se, there are many arranging concepts and general tips included in the performance notes. There are also a few drills. Sections One and Two are intended to be a supplement for beginner and intermediate students, especially those who have used Mel Bay’s First Lessons Banjo. Additional solos are presented for many of the songs in that book. Section Three is basically a lick and repertoire building resource for more advanced players. This entire section with the exception of two arrangements is previously unpublished material

In this you will find the result of Hans-W.F. Landau's work, spanning from Renaissance to Barock, from Ireland and Italy to the Alps. An extra section with more difficult pieces will satisfy the advanced player.

Perfect for beginning to advanced players, this collection contains both note-for-note transcribed mandolin solos, as well as mandolin arrangements of the melody lines for 11 songs from this Grammy-winning Album of the Year: Angel Band • The Big Rock Candy Mountain • Down to the River to Pray • I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow • I Am Weary (Let Me Rest) • I'll Fly Away • In the Highways (I'll Be Somewhere Working for My Lord) • In the Jailhouse Now • Indian War Whoop • Keep on the Sunny Side • You Are My Sunshine. Chord diagrams provided for each song match the chords from the original recording, and all songs are in their original key. Includes tab, lyrics and a mandolin notation legend.