ISBN 9781513459738. 8.75x11.75 inches.

This fingerstyle guitar book includes many wonderful gospel songs adapted for DADGAD tuninga style not typically used in gospel. The material includes standards, as well as songs less familiar to fingerstyle players. Intended for advanced-beginners, intermediate-level players, and anyone looking to dive into alternating-bass music and more complex chordal work. Includes access to online audio.

ISBN 9781619115286. 8.5 X 11 inches.

This book features 22 gems of gospel and hymn music, arranged in various keys in dropped D tuning (DADGBE - 6th to 1st string) for the intermediate and advanced guitarist. The arrangements provide compelling evidence that dropped D tuning has been liberated from its usual position as simply a variant of standard tuning. In this book, it takes on an exciting open-tuning character. Innovative string choices and guitar voicings are employed to evoke different textures for the various melodies. The music ranges from the single-note treatment reminiscent of the solo singer, to the flowing, arpeggiated approach of the harper, to the chordal power of the organist. The pace can be slow and meditative, or up-tempo and celebratory. The presentation is in tablature and standard notation.

ISBN 9781513455020.

This is a collection of 25 beloved old-time Gospel songs arranged for flatpick guitar solo. The selections feature beautiful, lyrical melodies and many have a pleasing Gospel swing feeling. These solos work well as preludes or offertories at church services or just as fun pieces to play, regardless of the setting. All solos are in notation and tablature. Includes access to online audio recorded by the author for each solo.

FORMATTED FOR TWO-SIDED PRINTING: Internationally acclaimed acoustic guitarist Ellsworth ("El") McMeen has been arranging hymns and other spiritual music for guitar for over 30 years. He started in standard guitar tuning, but moved away from that tuning into various so-called "open" tunings. He has been called the "King of CGDGAD tuning," in light of his prolific arrangements and compositions in that lush and evocative tuning. This major work of spiritual music contains 26 guitar settings of hymns, spirituals, and gospel songs, all lovingly arranged for solo fingerstyle guitar in the CGDGAD tuning. This book contains a chord chart for the aid of the reader. El is included in the Digitaldreamdoor listing of the 100 Greatest Acoustic Guitarists. https://tinyurl.com/GreatestGuitarists Many of El's recordings are described here: https://store.cdbaby.com/Artist/ElMcMeen

The audio sampler contains excerpts from these 10 songs, all in CGDGAD tuning:

1. Alleluia, Sing to Jesus
2. In Christ There is No East or West
3. Jacob's Ladder
4. Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
5. Kingsfold (Tune: "Star of the County Down")
6. Poor Wayfaring Stranger
7. Praise to the Lord
8. Simple Gifts
9. This Is My Father's World
10. When I Survey the Wondrous Cross (Tune:
"Water is Wide")

El's double-length recording called "Gospel Guitar Treasures" can be found here: https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/elmcmeen7

ISBN 9781609748289.

Contains 19 gospel favorites arranged for fingerstyle solos and for either flatpicking solo or back-up to singing. Written in standard notation and tablature with chord symbols. A few tunes require the 5th and 6th strings to be tuned down a whole-tone.

ISBN 9781610652360.

Joining a jam session can be intimidating. This book presents everything a beginning or intermediate guitar flatpicker needs to know to participate in a jam session. There are sections that describe how jam sessions work, and jam session etiquette. The book also describes the typical chords and keys for jamming, and describes right hand usage. A section is included on the role each instrument plays in bluegrass rhythm. A play-along audio is included with 9 typical bluegrass jam tunes. The tunes are played twice: once with the tune played on the left channel and a verbal description on the right channel, and once in stereo. Includes access to online audio.

ISBN 9781513459967. 8.75 x 11.75 inches.

With the musically literate steel or nylon-string guitarist in mind, this book features 32 well-known gospel tunes arranged in guitar-friendly keys in standard notation only. While ideal for solo performance in church services, suggested guitar chords provide a foundation for sight reading, improvisation and group singing. To encourage students to pencil-in their own ideas about digitation, minimal right and left-hand fingering is given. Includes access to online audio.

ISBN 9781610657631. The Spirituals Their Story, Their Song Guitar Solos and Songbook is both a collection of guitar solos and a songbook devoted to African-American spirituals. The music is placed in historical context to help the reader better appreciate and interpret this amazing musical legacy. The book provides solo guitar arrangements in standard notation and tablature plus a vocal stave with complete lyrics and chord diagrams for 60 songs of faith, freedom, hope and the human spirit. A companion online audio includes the author's rendition of all of the guitar solos in the book. The book provides an in-depth analysis of the various meanings and messages of the spirituals, and traces the musical forms that grew out of them, namely blues, jazz, gospel, country, calypso, rhythm and blues, soul, and rock. This book is for all who play the guitar including: students, music teachers, parents, performing guitarists, vocalists and anyone with an interest in folk, gospel and sacred music. Includes access to online audio.