ISBN 9781513459950. 8.75x11.75 inches.

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 authors own audio recordings.

This is an arrangement for classical guitar in standard tuning. I included percussion effects to enhance the groove and the overall atmosphere of the music. You don´t have to play all the effects but I included a description of how to play them in the appendix. I composed my own solo-part for the guitar in the section where the trumpet plays it´s solo. It is very exciting to play! Enjoy and please let me know If you have any questions. It would be my pleasure to help you out! Here is my E-mail: info@nikymusic.com .