If you're new to the guitar, you are probably eager to learn some songs. This book features special arrangements in standard notation of a variety of songs from pop/rock hits and standards to show tunes and movie themes that guitarists can play with a teacher or band. Includes: Chopsticks · Clocks (Coldplay) · Eleanor Rigby (The Beatles) · Game of Thrones Theme · Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen) · Linus and Lucy (from A Charlie Brown Christmas) · Memory (from Cats) · Over the Rainbow (from The Wizard of Oz) · Star Wars (Main Theme) · What a Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong) · You Raise Me Up (Josh Groban) · and many more.

Etudes and Familiar Chord Progressions for Two Guitars-Jazz Guitar Duets will take you on a journey through the entire range of the fretboard with 10 great jazz duets. Each duet is written in standard notation and is accompanied by audio recordings and in-depthanalysis. Read through the etudes alone or together with a friend to strengthen your sight-reading skills and develop your ability to read one part against a contrasting part. The accompanying online audio featurestracks of the authors playing each duet together along with additional tracks that isolate each part. Play along with one track to learn the nuances of jazz phrasing and articulation or play along with the other to create avirtual duet. Study the lines and read the analysis to develop stylistically authentic jazz vocabulary while increasing your awareness of two-part counterpoint in the context of jazz harmony.