With Online Audio-For decades Guitar students and teachers alike have struggled with the idea of left-handed individuals playing right-handed. Now that the idea of letting the dominant hand rule is widely accepted as the best course of action here at last is a proven method for the left-handed Guitarist! The world's premier method for learning modern plectrum style Guitar time-tested and proven successful in building the theoretic and technical foundation needed toplay in any style. All seven grades of this method are written in standard notation only to encourage better sight reading. In Grade 1 the student guitarist will learn to play solos duets scales and chords in the keys of C Aminor G and E minor. Even in Grade 1 the student is already exposed to the chord/melody concept of guitar performance.The world's premier method for learning modern plectrum style Guitar time-tested and proven successfulin building the theoretic and technical foundation needed to play in any style. All seven grades of this method are written in standard notation only to encourage better sight reading. In Grade 1 the student Guitarist will learnto play solos duets scales and chords in the keys of C A minor G and E minor. Even in Grade 1 the student is already exposed to the chord/melody concept of Guitar performance. A supplementary study book entitledGrade 1 Studies two different play-along audio recordings (pop version and traditional) and video are available. The companion recordings feature Tommy Flint and William Bay playing in split-track format withthe solo parts performed on the right channel and the accompaniment or second duet parts played on the left. The student can play along with the full recording or tune out either channel and play the missing part. TheLeft-Handed Modern Guitar Method Grade 1 provides a valuable enhancement to the world's most popular Guitar method. Includes access to online audio.

Book With Online Audio and Video-This beginning Guitar method is unique in that it teaches the basics of playing Guitar while focusing on the style of folk Guitar.Designed to teach students the fundamentals of playing chords and melody on Guitar FirstLesson Folk Guitar also provides lessons on correct posture caring for the Guitar proper right and left-hand technique and tuning the Guitar to its self a pitch pipe or a Piano.Subjects covered include strumming chords accompaniment patterns fingerstyle basics reading standard notation reading tab and alternating bass strum patterns. Time tested folk standards with lyrics are included to teach playing fundamentals. Accompanying audio andvideo provides students a professional recording of tunes and exercises. 

Learn Guitar. Read Music. Fight Space Monsters.-Any new skill is easier to acquire when the task of learning is made fun. Why shouldn't the same hold true for learning the guitar? In Guitar Games you'll be developing the same skills and knowledge you would by takinglessons but you'll be thoroughly enjoying yourself in the process with fun clever computer games that keep you motivated to do more. Aside from guitar-specific skills such as chord fingerings notes on the fretboard etc. you'll also spend time on important music theory concepts and the often-overlooked subject of ear training. With Guitar Games learning the guitar (and music in general) isn't something you'll have to convince yourself todo ? you'll look forward to each and every practice session. Just pop the CD-ROM into your Mac or PC and you're on your way! Guitar Games covers topics such as: notes on the fretboard and staff chord shapes keysignatures and scales ear training with intervals and chords music theory and building chords/scales musical theory and more.

Amongst the many Guitar methods you can buy today this book is something special. After many years of teaching and a close look at available Guitar tutors the authors of this method are convinced that there is something that has been missing:That is a Guitar method that keeps the student's mind open for all musical styles and doesn’t limit him to only one musical direction.A Guitar method that provides the student with music he is familiar with i.e. pop music.A Guitar method that slowly and gently introduces the student to classical music and offers a carefully selected choice of musical pieces in this field.A Guitar method thatintroduces staff notation and music theory in a simplified way that is easy to understand.A Guitar method that includes a CD which does not only support the student’s practice but is fun to listen to as well.

Boxed Set with Four Publications and One DVD in One Great Package-Get started playing guitar with real songs and solid lessons covering everything you need: notes chords scales techniques and much more! The method's well-paced and logical teaching sequence will get beginning guitarists playing more easily than ever before and music from famous composers like Beethoven Bach and Mozart will keep them playing and having fun. This boxed set includes four books (Classical Guitar Method Guitar Chord Chart Guitar Scale Chart and Guitar Theory Chart) and a Classical Guitar DVD with lessons demonstrating playing position rest and free strokes thumb and finger combinations chordal harmonics bass lines slurred notes sustained bassnotes barre technique arpeggios vibrato and more. Works for those who want to teach themselves or with a teacher!

Recognized for over 50 years as the best-paced and most comprehensive guitar method available, Alfred's Basic Guitar Method has introduced over five million beginners to the joy of playing guitar. Now included are blues, country, folk, jazz, and rock styles, plus more pop songs! Videos are available for the visual learner, and correlating theory, chord, and pop books provide everything you need from one complete method. Learning to play has never been easier or more fun than with Alfred's Basic Guitar Method---the first and best choice for today's beginning guitar students. The Complete Edition includes Books 1, 2 and 3 of Alfred's Basic Guitar in one convenient volume. It begins with the basics like how to hold your guitar and read music and takes you all the way to advanced playing techniques. For the first time, companion audio tracks that can be downloaded or streamed online are included with the book, so you'll have everything you need in one place. The DVD is newly updated and features video lessons, MP3 audio tracks, as well as TNT 2 software which lets you slow down tracks, isolate and loop parts, and change tempos for customized practice. All of the audio, video, and software include free online access. / Guitare

Recognized for over 50 years as the best-paced and most comprehensive guitar method available, Alfred's Basic Guitar Method has introduced over 5 million beginners to the joy of playing guitar. Alfred's Basic Rock Guitar Method 1 provides a completely new approach to learning guitar for students who want to play in the rock style. By starting on the 6th string, you are immediately able to play riffs and licks that inspire guitarists to continue learning and have fun doing it! The book features clear, well-paced instruction along with large photographs of fingerings that are expected from the Alfred's Basic series. Companion audio tracks that can be downloaded or streamed online are included with the book, and you can also download the TNT 2 software which lets you slow down tracks, isolate and loop parts, and change tempos and keys for customized practice. The included DVD features video lessons and MP3 audio tracks. Learning to play has never been easier or more fun than with Alfred's Basic Guitar Methods---the best choice for today's beginning guitar students. / Guitare

The composer says: Several musical threads led to my writing this piece of music to celebrate my friend Matanya Ophee?s (AKA MO) 80th birthday - a life lived with the guitar. Jelly Roll Morton once asserted: ?In fact, if you can't manage to put tinges of Spanish in your tunes, you will never be able to get the right seasoning; I call it, for jazz.? Over the last couple of years I moved back to Jelly Roll Morton?s city: New Orleans, home of my adolescence and reacquainted myself with the tinges of Spanish in its rich musical heritage. One of these pieces was the Mardi Gras Mambo, an iconic song frequently played during Mardi Gras and, in David Newman?s reworking of the lyrics, at the New Orleans Saints football games as the Super Bowl Mambo. Uncited sources on both Wikipedia and Essortment say the word Mambo means ?conversation with the gods? in Kikongo, the language spoken by Central African slaves taken to Cuba where it became the name for a musical form and a dance style that developed originally in Cuba in the able hands of Cachao?s (Bassist Orestes Lopez) tune: Danzon Mambo. This rhythmic style became famous in the 1950?s following its use in dance bands in Mexico and through New Orleans to the United States. The infectiousness of the New Orleans re-interpretation of the Mambo?s ostinato bass line and the reaction of people who are readily moved to dance when they hear it spoke to me of dance and celebration. This led me to choose some of this piece?s characteristics and title for this piece: Mambo for MO. As we have progressed on the instrument, some of us may have encountered the four-chord descending minor chord progression known as the Andalusian cadence: i - VII - VI - V in many different genres and guises. After all, it appears in Ray Charles? Hit the Road, Jack, the verse on Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys, Walk, Don?t Run by The Ventures, Runaway by Del Shannon and in that great work arranged and embraced by the Guitar: J.S. Bach?s Chaconne from the Partita in D minor for solo violin, BWV 1004. This bass line derived from a Latin American musical style as reinterpreted in New Orleans, a chord progression that evokes the Flamenco Music of Spain, and my impressions of the sinuous lines of people dancing the Second Line in the streets of New Orleans at Mardi Gras led me to this synthesis as a tribute to a man who has contributed so much in his lifelong efforts for the guitar, its history and lore on the occasion of his birthday! Happy Birthday, Matanya! Carlos Barrientos was born on June 25, 1954 in Tela, Honduras. He began his formal music studies at the National Music Conservatory in Guatemala City, Guatemala C.A. His training with Maestro Elias Barreiro, Director of Guitar Studies at Tulane University, was supplemented with Master Classes with Manuel Barrueco, Leo Brouwer, Juan Mercadal, Michael Newman, Tommy Tedesco and Carlos Barbosa-Lima. He studied composition under the tutelage of Dr. Jerry Sieg, University of New Orleans, and Dr. Roy Johnson, Florida State University. He consulted with Michael D. Martin, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Music, Albany State University, Albany, GA in the creation of a recordings library that reflects Western Art Music and American Jazz for the students at Albany State University. The New York Premiere of the First Movement of his Second Guitar Sonata was dedicated to and performed by Classical Guitarist Maestro Carlos Barbosa-Lima in 2003 at Carnegie Hall. At the request of U.S. Senator Bob Graham one of his compositions, Si Tu Te Vas (If You Go Away), was included on a recording to promote The Everglades Trail. In 2004, at the American Church in Paris, France the World Premiere of his Romance for Flute and Guitar was performed by the award-winning Serenade Duo, flutist Michelle LaPorte and guitarist Gerry Saulter. He has performed with such legendary musicians as Herbie Mann, Donald Byrd and Debbie Reynolds, led an on stage Renaissance Trio in a University of New Orleans production of Shakespeare?s Twelfth Night, and played incidental music for their production of Bertold Brecht?s The Good Woman of Sichuan. He has performed Carulli?s Guitar Concerto in A, Leonard Bernstein?s West Side Story and Marvin Hamlish?s A Chorus Line with the Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra and Okaloosa-Walton Community College, Niceville, FL, and with the Southern Art Music Ensemble, a Jazz/Latin Fusion Sextet, including an Honors Convocation in Atlanta for Mr. Ted Turner. He has been a guest performer with the Albany State University Jazz Ensemble at The Fletcher Henderson Jr., Macon and Atlanta Jazz Festivals, and played the banjo in the Albany State University /Albany Symphony?s co-production of George Gershwin?s Opera Porgy and Bess.

16 Guitar and Lute Pieces-The third volume is the latest addition to the Baroque Guitar Anthology series and contains 16 original works by composers of the 17th and 18th centuries transcribed for guitar by co-author Stuart Willis. Including pieces by Weiss de Visée Hagen and Daube amongst others it presents a carefully selected range of work and as with the other volumes in the series is ideal for any players interested in gaining an insight into the richness and variety of the Baroque guitar and lute repertoire. The book contains composer biographies and teaching notes on all of the works and is accompanied by CD recording of all pieces performed by Jens Franke. Suitable for students ofca. 6-7 years of playing experience or those of grades 5-6 level. Also available: Baroque Guitar Anthology: Vol 1 – ED 13357 Vol 2 – ED 13437 Romantic Guitar Anthology: Vol 1 – ED 13110 Vol 2 - ED 13111 Vol 3 – ED 13112 Vol 4 – ED 13113

Guitar Solos By Howard Alden From The Film Sweet And Lowdown. Par HOWARD ALDEN. Sweet and Lowdown, Woody Allen's film from 1999, starred Sean Penn as the legendary, but fictitious jazz guitarist of the '30s, Emmett Ray. Emmett considered himself to be the second greatest jazz guitarist in the world next to Django Reinhardt. The versatile Howard Alden played all of the solo acoustic guitar parts for the movie, as well as coaching Mr. Penn to play guitar for his role (for which he received an Oscar nomination, best actor). This book contains note-for-note transcriptions in both standard notation and tab of Howard's Django-esque interpretations and improvisations of classic standards of the 1930s, as well as original solo guitar pieces written by Woody's longtime musical director, jazz pianist Dick Hyman. Sweet and Lowdown contributed greatly to the recent renewal of interest in and revival of swing and gypsy jazz guitar. Howard's guitar work is a warm and personal example of the timeless musical vocabulary of swing guitar. / Niveau : Intermédiaire à Avancé / Jazz - Solos / Recueil / Guitare

Seven classic books all-in one-You get seven books under one cover with this great compilation: Acoustic Rock for Guitar Basic Blues for Rock Guitar Major Pentatonic Scales for Guitar Minor Pentatonic Scales for Guitarists Modes for Rock & Blues Guitar Rock Riffs for Guitar and Warm-Up Exercises for Guitar. Everything you need to improve your chops!

Description This very easy to understand, step by step introduction to note reading and guitar solo performance presents basic notes in first position. It features a companion play-along CD and special sections on types of guitars, frequently asked questions, how to string a guitar, musical and guitar terms. •easy to understand, step by step introduction to note reading and guitar solo performance •presents basic notes in first position •companion play-along CD •special sections on types of guitars, frequently asked questions, how to string a guitar, musical and guitar terms Esta introducción fácil de entender, paso a paso a la lectura musical y guitarra solista presenta notas básicas en la primera posición. Incluye un CD de acompañamiento y una sección especial de tipos de guitarras, preguntas frecuentes, como encordar la guitarra y términos guitarrísticos y musicales. •

The Complete Guitar Player-The Complete Guitar Player: Essential Acoustic Songs is a fantastic collection of classic and contemporary acoustic songs arranged for guitar and voice. Many of the greatest artists including Bob Dylan EricClapton and Adele are included here with melody full lyrics guitar chord shapes and suggested strumming or picking patterns.Easy to read and fun to play this is an essential songbook for all acousticguitarists looking to expand their repertoire whether it's for gigging or simply practice. Songs like Blackbird by the Beatles Adele's Rolling In The Deep Bob Marley's One Love areincluded representing the finest rock and pop tunes for guitar. With 50 songs this is a collection of guitar sheet music that is sure to become a mainstay of your gig bag.