ISBN 9781619117396.

This edition features modern electric guitar transcriptions from the Baroque era. The first section features 17 short repeatable passages from Baroque literature. Other sections include 16 unaccompanied solos, 10 duets and 4 multi-movement arrangements for electric guitar and piano including Pachelbel's Canon and the Vivaldi Mandolin Concerto in its entirety. The final section includes guitar parts for the piano - guitar arrangements. The transcriptions are meant to be performed with a pick in a variety of techniques such as: alternate picking, economy and circle picking, sweep picking, hybrid picking, right handed tapping, string skipping, rest strokes, and palm muting. Many of the selections are available on video at www.youtube.com/johnkieferguitar in the electric baroque playlist.

Bourrée I & II from Cello Suite III by Johann Sebastian Bach arranged for solo fingerstyle or classical guitar. Includes 4-page score with tablature plus guitar part without tabs.

ISBN 9781619119499.

In this unique collection, multi-instrumentalist Rob MacKillop presents 30 airs and dances from Scotland, Ireland and England transcribed for the modern guitar in open-D tuning (DADFa-AD). Although conceived for fingerstyle playing, most of these traditional, Classical and Baroque pieces are also playable with a pick. During the mid to late 18th century, a wire-strung instrument which could be described as a cross between a guitar and a cittern appeared in Britain. With the exception of the publications in Edinburgh by Robert Bremmer (c. 1713 a 89), most period writings refer to this instrument as the guittar. In providing extensive historical and performance notes on this music, the author has adopted this spelling. While derived principally from the publications by Scottish guittarists Robert Bremmer and James Oswald (1710 a 69), MacKillop discovered additional Scottish publications and manuscripts in The National Library of Scotland and even more manuscripts in the uncatalogued library of Blair Castle in Perthshire, Scotland. Written in standard notation and tablature, this book brings a particularly uncommon repertoire to light with an exceptional downloadable recording. Includes access to online audio.