SKU: PE.40784

ISBN 9780739094839. UPC: 038081456867. English.

Aaron Shearer's Classic Guitar Technique is used by serious guitarists all over the world and has long been one of the definitive classic guitar methods. The Shearer Method: Classic Guitar Foundations, Shearer's final work, is the first in a series that encapsulates his lifetime experience as America's premier classic guitar pedagogue. This work is a step-by-step curriculum based on Aaron's innovative and common sense approach that incorporates all the advantages of modern technology. The method includes 63 videos for up-close aural and visual learning, 74 new solo and duet compositions and arrangements (made exclusively for this method by Dr. Alan Hirsh), as well as works by Sor, Carcassi, Giuliani, and more. Plus, recorded tracks masterfully illustrate nuance, tone, and musicality. The book even includes Alfred Music's exclusive TNT 2 software that allows you to slow down and loop tracks for careful practice. In addition, a complete online supplement is available for teachers and students that want a deeper understanding of Shearer's work. The book does not replace Shearer's original classic. It augments and expands on it in ways not imaginable in the early '60s when the original was published. It's a must-have to complete the library of any classic or fingerstyle guitarist! The Shearer Method Classic Guitar Foundations is not just a book but a media experience.

SKU: PE.EP68585

ISBN 9790300759852. 232 x 303mm inches.

Piano Music Arranged for Guitar features five early and mid-career compositions by John Cage, dating from 1933 through 1948, all arranged for solo guitar by Aaron Larget-Caplan. The compositions required little adjustment from the originals, mainly in the form of register modifications, and fit very well on the guitar. All phrase and dynamic markings follow the published originals. Very few left and right hand fingerings are included in the publication to allow the performers their own realizations. All of the works retain their original keys and are presented in chronological order:

Three Easy Pieces (Round, Duo, Infinite Cannon)

A Room

Chess Pieces

Dream

In A Landscape

Cage’s exploration of contrapuntal music and simple forms are found early on in works for two voices and the use of unusual phrases lengths. The later works explore modes, resonance, and begin to show influences of Far East aesthetics in their spaciousness and dealings with time.

The collection is only the second work in the Cage Oeuvre to be published featuring the guitar, the first being Larget-Caplan’s arrangement of ‘Six Melodies’ for violin & guitar issued in 2015.

A recording dedicated to John Cage on guitar will be released in 2018 on Stone Records Limited (UK).

SKU: GI.G-006692

UPC: 641151066929. English.

NEW! Two hundred contemporary songs for worship, by some of the best and brightest artists and composers in Catholic/Christian music! Voices As One Volume 2 will complement Voices As One Volume 1 or any hymnal or missal you have in your pews. Calling on the expertise of Ed Bolduc and Aaron Thompson, and ably assisted by the WLP editorial staff, Voices As One Volume 2 program contains 20 of the top 25 Contemporary Christian Songs as reported by CCLI — the largest Christian licensing company. Two additional top 25 CCLI songs can be found in Voices as One Volume 1 (006591). With this affordable hymnal resource, you can confidently teach and share contemporary songs for worship (including the new Mass of Celebration by Ed Bolduc) secure in the knowledge that they are theologically sound and musically exciting. The 8.5 x 11 Guitar Edition and the 7 x 10 Vocal Harmony Edition both contain all vocal harmony and guitar chords. The spiral bound Guitar Edition (006692) is designed to lay flat on a music stand while the Vocal Harmony Edition (006693) is sized and perfect-bound for ease of use by vocal ensembles or even entire small assemblies.