Tutor Books by Instrument
Teaches you the fundamentals of banjo playing through familiar tunes. The book is designed to provide a clear and simple introduction to the 5 string banjo.
This book offers 27 arrangements from around the world written in standard notation and tablature playable on any ‘ukulele.
Ukulele From The Beginning is a great collection of favourite songs specially chosen for primary school-age children starting to learn the instrument! Book with CD.
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.
Presents tuning, proper positioning, basic chords (C tuning) and folk songs for strumming and singing. Very easy to comprehend, even for the absolute beginner.
The most comprehensive guitar chord resource ever, now available for the left-hand. Photos and diagrams for over 2,600 guitar chords.
Includes standard notation and tablature, punched holes to fit a 3-ring binder, and a handy Ukulele chord chart.
The Autoharp Owner's Manual covers autoharp maintenance, conversions, tuning and string schedules (both diatonic and chromatic), building your own instrument, playing techniques, evaluating instruments, chord bar setups, amplification, history, and much more.
Finally! A chord book written for the young beginner (or even beginners of any age) showing a creative and simple way to learn and play ukulele chords. Chords are taught beginning with the most essential to more advanced. Chords are presented with exercises that build upon each other and eventually lead the student to playing logical and common chord progressions. These progressions include I-iii-vi-ii-V-I and twelve bar blues in many different keys. Chords are shown in chord diagram form with photographs showing finger positions in relationship to the fretboard. Examples and exercises are presented in strum bar notation.
Evoke the traditional sounds of the Celtic lands with these instrumental arrangements of songs for solo Celtic harp. These 25 tunes are Manx, Welsh, Irish, Scottish, Cornish, Hebridean, and Bretton, including pieces by Turlough O'Carolan and Robert Burns.
A complete survey of traditional banjo styles complete with tunings, playing tips, and the author's deft drawings. Progresses from easy tunes for the beginner to more difficult pieces. The styles include up-picking or Pete Seeger's basic strum; two-finger picking; three-finger picking; and what had variously been called frailing, clawhammer, knocking, rapping, overhand, fram-style, flayin' hand, and other Appalachian names, here called down-picking. Audio download available online.
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.
Comprehensive and easily understood, this Mel Bay stand-by is arranged in photo, chord diagram and notation form for maximum ease of use by mandolinists of all playing levels. Correct right hand positions are pictured for each chord, as is proper left hand picking position. Major, minor, seventh, diminished, augmented, and ninth chords are shown in photos and diagrams; major seventh, sixth, minor sixth, seventh augmented fifth, and seventh diminished fifth chords are shown in diagram form only. Tuning of the mandolin is also shown. A chart summarizing movable chord patterns ends the book.
The Hal Leonard Ukulele Method is designed for anyone learning to play the ukulele. Acclaimed performer and uke master Lil' Rev teaches the basics of the ukulele and explains tuning, single-note melodies, chords and strumming, and gives practice tips. The on-screen musical examples will help you play the ukulele in no time!
Play Today! is the ultimate self-teaching method - designed to offer quality instruction, terrific songs, and a professional-quality CD with 86 full-demo tracks.
This mandolin method can be used by students who want to teach themselves, or by teachers for private or group instruction.
Simply follow the tips and lessons in the book as you listen to the teacher on the CD.
This complete guide to the basics covers: songs, chords and melodies; alternate picking and strumming; and playing tips and techniques, all in standard notation and tablature.
Learn at your own pace and open the door to the world of mandolin music with over 80 great songs and examples in this book!
Includes the book/CD pack John Sebastian Teaches Blues Harmonica (00841074) and the DVD John Sebastian Teaches Blues Harmonica (00641720) in one money-saving pack.
In the book/CD, John starts at the beginning,explaining the proper way to hold the instrument and make your first tones. He demonstrates essential techniques, such as reed bending, vibrato, rhythm grooves, cross harp playing and more.
In the DVD, John teaches all thebasics in this friendly, jam-along lesson: how to hold the instrument and find the blues notes, then add vibrato, note-bending, wah-wahs, tonguing, rhythm playing, train effects and a variety of great licks and solos that can beused either solo or in a band.
Pete Seeger took an interest in playing the 5-string banjo when he was 16 years old after he heard it played at the 1935 Asheville Folk Festival in North Carolina. It wasn't long after, when he was able to have a short lesson with banjoist Bascom Lamar Lunsford, known as the Minstrel of the Appalachians, where Seeger learned the basics of what would become his basic strum. From then on, Seeger made it a point to seek out, listen to, and learn from any banjo players that he met in his travels, learning a number of different playing styles which he experimented with in backing up his vocals. This book looks at the techniques he was using when he was a member of the Almanac Singers in 1941, seven years before the publication of his first banjo method. Join Pete Seeger as he was evolving his early playing technique through the mid-1950s at the dawn of the folk music era!
Finally! There is a definitive reference guide available for harmonicas in each and every key.
Finally! There is a definitive reference guide available for harmonicas in each and every key.
A handy collection of 24 popular harmonica songs packaged with a split-track CD! Fun music to play. Excellent play- along repertoire for practice with a C diatonic harmonica. All selections are performed on the companion compact disc. Includes a section on basic technique and music reading, and features a diatonic note chart with each song.