More than just a handy reference book this book and CD set provides a complete guide to reading tablature for the beginner guitarist.Tablature offers an intuitive and coherent way of using printed music on the guitarwithout having to learn to read traditional notation - rather than seeing only the notes to be played tablature guides your fingers to exactly the right frets and strings! This comprehensive tutorialincludes:Easy-to-follow diagramsPhotos of correct fingeringsClear explanations of TAB notation with examplesAudio recordings of every example on the accompanying CDA host of hints and tips to helpyoualong the way

Traditional and Contemporary - 40th Anniversary Edition-This celebratory collection gathers the very best in music instruction and knowledge from two previous titles Fingerpicking Styles for Guitar and Traditional and Contemporary Guitar Fingerpicking Styles tocommemorate 40 years since their original publication. Happy Traum's landmark transcriptions represent the music and art of twenty-two musicians from the mountains of Virginia the Piedmont of North Carolina the coal-miningcountry of Kentucky as well as places as far-reaching as England the Bahamas and Africa. Every song is presented in notation and tab alongside biographical information about the artist plus any hints and tips that will helpyou achieve a more authentic performance. The book begins with a detailed guide to fingerpicking technique giving you all the information you need to tackle these priceless musical treasures.

Juan Martin's internationally-acclaimed series which reveals the art of playing the flamenco Guitar. A video series of six lessons is now presented on two DVDs with a total duration of three hours.Juan Martin explains and demonstrates the essential techniques and rhythmic forms of flamenco Guiar playing in six lessons designed for all players from beginning to advanced.The lessons show you in detail many varieties of basic rhythms which form the foundation of flamenco Guitar styles. They also give a wealth of traditional and modern flamenco solos accurately transcribed into music notation and easy-to-follow 'cifra' tablature all presented in a video series of sixlessons. In this way you learn not only how to play but also what to play as the lessons build into a substantial repertoire of flamenco music.Juan Martin is a Guitarist in the great tradition of flamenco. From early beginnings immersed in the flamenco culture of Andalucia he mastered the skills of accompanying flamenco singers and dancers before his emergence as an innovative soloist who is now an internationally-celebrated concert and recording artist with many albums to his credit.

With Online Audio-A unique collection of traditional Northumbrian music arranged for fingerstyle guitar.Selections include Salmon Tails Up the Water; Johnny Armstrong; Jimmy Allen; Felton Lonnen; Sir John Fenwick; Bonny Gallowgate Lad;Buy Broom Besoms; Elsie Marley; Sweet Hesleyside; Chevy Chase; Lea Riggs; Noble Squire Dacre; Dolia; Are You My Hinny Burd; and more.Each piece is written in standard notation and tablature and includes brief technical andperformance notes. Includes access to online audio.

With Online Audio-This book will appeal to any guitarist intrigued by the soulful and magical sound of the flamenco Guitar. It presents 10 engaging intermediate to advanced flamenco Guitar solos in traditional forms in standard notation and tabwith performance notes. All selections appear on the book's companion audio download available online. So grab your Guitar and get into flamenco the musical heart of Spain.

Start your guitar playing guitar with this one-of-a-kind collection of accessible must-know traditional folk favorites.Includes easy guitar arrangements in notes and tab with lyrics of 50 songs including Amazing Grace • Buffalo Gals (Won't You Come Out Tonight?) • Down by the Riverside • Good Night Ladies • Home on the Range • I've Been Working on the Railroad • Kumbaya • Man of Constant Sorrow • My Old Kentucky Home • Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen • Oh! Susanna • The Red River Valley • Scarborough Fair • She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain • This Little Light of Mine • Turkey in theStraw • When the Saints Go Marching In • Will the Circle Be Unbroken • The Yellow Rose of Texas and more.

World Guitar (Book And CD)-The Guitarist’s guide to the traditional styles of cultures around the world. Includes lessons on existing guitar traditions along with new guitar arrangements of non-guitar music from Asia and the Middle East. Complete with an audio CD of recorded examples including slower versions for practice. Featured techniques include:Afropop and African acoustic styles Middle Eastern oud and saz Indian veena and sitar Chinese pipa Japanese koto Spanish guitar Celtic folk Andean folk Brazilian jazz Mexican mariachi Hawaiian slack-key guitar

Fiddle Tunes in DADGAD shows how fingerstyle guitarists can use DADGAD tuning to play traditional tunes including twenty-four complete arrangements of common American Irish and Scottish ballads airs jigs and reels. The bookexplores techniques and patterns for playing melodies across the strings producing a harp-like effect that adds a distinctive and beautiful character to traditional melodies. In addition to building repertoire the materialdemonstrates ways to arrange your own melodies or even write your own tunes based on the techniques provided. This is a perfect follow-up for guitarists who have studied Understanding DADGAD for Fingerstyle Guitar and arelooking for tunes to learn or for those who want to go deeper into harp-style playing. It is also an excellent introduction for those who prefer to just dive head-first into DADGAD by learning some classic tunes.

Learn deep funk/R&B Guitar! These hands-on exercises licks and technical discussions will help you play in the style of Kool and the Gang Prince James Brown Sly and the Family Stone Jimi Hendrix CurtisMayfield Soulive and other great artists spanning from old school to contemporary funk/R&B grooves. The audio features demonstration and practice tracks played by the Boston-based R&B/funk group Thaddeus HogarthBand. Guitar tablature fretboard diagrams and traditional notation are included. You'll learn to: Play lead lines and build solos Understand and use scales over funk/R&B harmoniesCreate rhythm-Guitar parts that support funk/R&B grooves Bend strings to expand your palette of scales harmonies and ornamentation and much more!

This collection contains thirty of the most requested Celtic session tunes arranged for DADGAD tuning. Accompanying audio is available as an online download which includes performances by Rob MacKillop. To assistplaying these tunes a technique primer and specific exercises are included. With the use of aTo assist playing these tunes a technique primer and specific exercises are included. With the use of a capo youwill be able to play these tunes in their traditional keys. The tunes can be played fingerstyle or with a pick. The repertoire includes classic tunes such as Drowsy Maggie Soldier's Joy St. Patrick's Day In the Morning TheKesh The Rights of Man and The Wind That Shakes The Barley.A bonus twenty-five traditional Scottish lute pieces are included also arranged for DADGAD tuning.

Mariachi music for most of its 200 or so years has primarily been an aural tradition passing songs down from generation to generation ear to ear. This collection puts many popular tunes from the genre in print for any classicalguitarist to play. Author Laura Sobrino has been a professional mariachi and is familiar with the stylistic intricacies that truly make this Mexican traditional and popular music unique. Written in standard notation and tablature.