Media Type : Book Level : Beginning-Intermediate Musical Genre : Classic Number of pages : 76 Traditionally the classic guitar has been either excluded or inadequately represented in orchestration textbooks, resulting in much misinformation about its technique, its practicality in various performance contexts, and its character. The guitar's unique tuning, broad timbral variety and intimate nature pose a formidable challenge to non-guitarist composers, for whom an extensive amount of time would be required to gain even a minimal hands-on acquaintance. For most composers this is an unrealistic expectation, leading to time-consuming consultations and extensive drafting or rewriting. The purpose of this book is to provide the non-guitarist composer with the fundamental tools needed to write idiomatically for the guitar. The first of its kind for the guitar, the reference was written in consultation with dozens of composers and conceived with three types of end users in mind: - Experienced composers with a concern for writing idiomatically for the guitar. - Guitarists who are commissioning a work from a composer who has never written for the instrument. - Libraries that wish to add this essential sourcebook to their music reference section. The very structure of the book reflects the composer's own intuition by addressing such questions as: - How is the guitar constructed? - What does successful guitar music look like? - How is the guitar played? - How does the guitarist interpret music and express emotion? - Which musical elements and gestures are most effective? - How do these elements combine to create an effective pacing of idioms? By examining the parameters of successfully written pieces, The Composer's Desk Reference for the Classic Guitar provides an expedient resource of ideas and illustrations contributing to the fluency of both first-time and seasoned guitar composers.

This handbook is part of a series compiled by the Registry Of Guitar Tutors that forms an expertly structured and comprehensive method of studying classical guitar. This handbook covers all the sections of the London College of Music Grade Seven classical guitar examination including: all the set pieces; all scales arpeggios and chords; sight reading; ear tests; and spoken tests. In addition there are useful performance tips for all the pieces as well as essential advice on preparing for the examination - enabling you to study for an internationally recognized qualification. Even if you do not intend to take an examination studying this handbook willhelp you to: learn appealing and inspiring pieces from a wide range of styles and periods; improve your sight reading and aural abilities so that you can learn new pieces more easily; develop your technical ability and musical understanding and so achieve your full potential as a guitarist. This volume includes attractive pieces by a wide range of composers including Dowland Praetorius Bach Sor Carcassi Coste Tarrega and Pujol making it ideal for those who wish to improve their playing to a high level and extend their musical range and knowledge.

This handbook is part of a series compiled by the Registry Of Guitar Tutors that forms an expertly structured and comprehensive method of studying classical guitar. This handbook covers all the sections of the London College of Music Grade Four classical guitar examination including: all the set pieces; all scales arpeggios and chords; sight reading; ear tests; and spoken tests. In addition there are useful performance tips for all the pieces as well as essential advice on preparing for the examination - enabling you to study for an internationally recognized qualification. Even if you do not intend to take an examination studying this handbookwill help you to: learn appealing and inspiring pieces from a wide range of styles and periods; improve your sight reading and aural abilities so that you can learn new pieces more easily; develop your technical ability and musical understanding and so achieve your full potential as a guitarist. This volume includes attractive pieces by a wide range of composers including Lindsay-Clark Tarrega Kellner Sor and Carcassi – making it ideal for intermediate level players who wish to improve their playing and extend their musical range.

This handbook is part of a series compiled by the Registry Of Guitar Tutors that forms an expertly structured and comprehensive method of studying classical guitar. This handbook covers all the sections of the London College of Music Grade Five classical guitar examination including: all the set pieces; all scales arpeggios and chords; sight reading; ear tests; and spoken tests. In addition there are useful performance tips for all the pieces as well as essential advice on preparing for the examination - enabling you to study for an internationally recognized qualification. Even if you do not intend to take an examination studying this handbook willhelp you to: learn appealing and inspiring pieces from a wide range of styles and periods; improve your sight reading and aural abilities so that you can learn new pieces more easily; develop your technical ability and musical understanding and so achieve your full potential as a guitarist. This volume includes attractive pieces by a wide range of composers including Dowland Lauro Tarrega Giuliani and Sor making it ideal for intermediate level players who wish to improve their playing and extend their musical range.

In this new guitar method for moderately advanced guitar players, you will learn the best known blues songs and licks quickly and easily.Thanks to melodious exercises and clearly notated lead sheets, you will learn effortlessly what's important in blues - and if you wish to know it for sure, try the optional riffs and solos of famous guitar heroes like Eric Clapton, B. B. King or Stevie Ray Vaughan.The accompanying CD in practical mp3 format contains recordings of all exercises and songs which were performed by the author himself. In addition, there are also jam tracks of the 12 songs for your own solo escapades.With this new guitar method, everybody can play the blues - without getting the blues! / Guitare

The perfect supplementary songbook for those using the Hal Leonard Guitar Method this collection contains 20 popular songs from some of the greatest artists in the history of rock and pop music. With More Easy Pop Rhythms - Second Edition you can strum along to your favourite hits from classic rock artists including The Beatles Eric Clapton Tom Petty and Nirvana as well as more recent newcomers to the pop scene such as The Lumineers and Taylor Swift. All of the pieces in this book are presented in order of difficulty beginning with simple two and three chord songs and ending with songs that contain four and five chords. Songs include HeyJoe (Jimi Hendrix) Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley) Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd) Losing My Religion (R.E.M.) Patience (Guns N' Roses) and more. The price of this book includes access to online audio tracks that can be downloaded or streamed. This book also includes Playback + a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch set loop points change keys and pan left or right - available exclusively from Hal Leonard.

The purpose of Composer's Desk Reference For The Classic Guitar is to provide the non-guitarist composer with the fundamental tools needed to write idiomatically for the Guitar. The first of its kind for theGuitar the reference was written in consultation with dozens of composers and conceived with three types of end users in mind: Experienced composers with a concern for writing idiomatically for the guitar.Guitarists who are commissioning a work from a composer who has never written for the instrument. Libraries that wish to add this essential sourcebook to their music reference section. The very structureof the book reflects the composer's own intuition by addressing such questions as: How is the guitar constructed? What does successful guitar music look like? How is the guitar played? Howdoes the guitarist interpret music and express emotion? Which musical elements and gestures are most effective? How do these elements combine to create an effective pacing of idioms? By examiningthe parameters of successfully written pieces The Composer's Desk Reference For The Classic Guitar provides an expedient resource of ideas and illustrations contributing to the fluency of both first-time andseasoned Guitar composers.

(Formerly titled Basic Bluegrass Runs on Guitar: Volume 1). Tired of just strumming the Guitar? Wish you could add a little variety to your rhythm playing? These runs will do it. Each run is explained note-by-note in Murphy'seasy-to-learn style. She also shows you how these runs fit into simple three-chord bluegrass songs. Most of the runs are taught in the key of G but we also introduce the runs in the key of C. In addition we show you how to makethe F chord and do the 'rocking bass.'These are basic professional-grade runs that all good bluegrass rhythm players use. Yet they are explained so clearly that even beginning Guitar players can use them.This videois a direct follow-up to our Beginning Guitar DVD. If you can make G C and D and play a few songs using these chords you can learn these runs. Also for folks who have been playing a while but don't yet do any runs. A great wayto take your basic strumming rhythm to the next level.

This one-of-a-kind collection presents accessible must-know songs from the Beatles and Bob Dylan to Dave Matthews Band and Tom Petty for those who have been learning 12-string guitar and are eager to put their new skills to work. You'll find a combination of tab chords and lyrics for 50 great songs including: California Dreamin' · Carry On · Closer to the Heart · Do You Believe in Magic · Free Fallin' · Give a Little Bit · A Hard Day's Night · Hotel California · Leaving on a Jet Plane · Life by the Drop · Like the Way I Do · Melissa · Mr. Tambourine Man · More Than a Feeling · The One I Love · Over the Hills and Far Away · Solsbury Hill · Space Oddity · Still the Same · Turn!Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season) · The Waiting · Wish You Were Here · You Wear It Well · and more!

Media Type : Book Level : Intermediate-Advanced Musical Genre : All Styles Series : Complete Number of pages : 248 This is a very comprehensive text that combines theory, harmony and voicing material with emphasis placed on voice leading. Although this book's primary focus is on four-note chord voicings on the middle strings of the guitar, much of the knowledge conveyed here can be appreciated and used by all jazz musicians, not only guitarists. Topics covered include: Tensions, Voice Leading Chord Scales, Enharmonic Chordal Substitutions, Fourth Voicings, Chromatic Guide Lines, Triad Over Bass Voicings, and much more! The best part of this book, however, is the unique and practical way the author takes modern harmonic concepts and shows you how to apply them in real music situations! Written for the intermediate to advanced music theory enthusiast who wishes to master this facet of music.

This is a very comprehensive text that combines theory harmony and voicing material with emphasis placed on voice leading. Although this book's primary focus is on four-note chord voicings on the middle strings of the guitar much of the knowledge conveyed here can be appreciated and used by all jazz musicians not only guitarists. Topics covered include: Tensions Voice Leading Chord Scales Enharmonic Chordal Substitutions Fourth Voicings ChromaticGuide Lines Triad Over Bass Voicings and much more! The best part of this book however is the unique and practical way the author takes modern harmonic concepts and shows you how to apply them in real music situations! Writtenfor the intermediate to advanced music theory enthusiast who wishes to master this facet of music.

Night Dance was written between September 1986 and January 1987 to a commission from David Starobin who gave the first performance on 5 April 1987 at the Wigmore Hall London. It is a miniature tone-poem depicting ascene of an old man sitting in a doorway at dusk. He is playing a guitar and begins by plucking the lowest string as though searching for what he wishes to play. As the music gains momentum it gradually moves upwards by meansof the guitar’s open strings and breaks into a dance. Now it is dark and a nightmarish band of dancers passes by the old guitarist. The dance jerky and uneven develops melodically and harmonically the initial material of thepiece. After a climax the dancers move on - the dance music subsides and a nocturne is heard interrupted periodically by the music of the dance in the distance. Maybe this is not geographical distance but the distance oftime perhaps the whole episode has been mere memories. The piece ends musingly with the motive from which it began.

Superfingering is a revolutionary new way to play Guitar devised by Daniele Gottardo international winner of the 2009 Steve Vai Award in London. This DVD covers many of the typical problems that guitarists will encounter and is suitable both for beginners who want to really get to know their instrument and professionals wishing to broaden their horizons in search of new ideas. Superfingering includes 2 hours of content 100 classes in order of difficulty more than 100 pages of transcripts application examples and backing tracks for each theme and genre. This DVD is in Italian and English.

Learn Unlimited Ways to Harmonize Melody Lines and Progressions-Discover the approach that Jazz players have been using for years and open up a virtually unlimited world of harmony through chord substitution. The topics covered in this comprehensive guide include:Harmonised major minor and pentatonic scalesChromatic alterationSecondary dominant substitutionTritone substitutionQuartal harmonyUsing all 12 tones in every keyChord substitutions as applied to 12-bar bluesTheories of advanced harmony are presented here in a manner that is both practical and accessible to the guitarist wishing to extend their playing and improvising vocabulary enabling you to have seemingly infinitepossibilities at your fingertips! The manipulation of chords is an essential part of the Jazz approach but this book has plenty to offer the composer and arranger as well as the performer. Every lesson is covered by a generous number of exercises examples and even short pieces all of which will fire your imagination and inspire your playing.

The premise of Kitharologus is that 'Guitar technique is made up of a limited number of procedures with an unlimited number of applications. Therefore a sound technical methodology is not one that tries to cover all possibleforms of a given procedure but rather one that identifies and trains the essential mechanism which makes the procedure in all its forms possible'. Covering all grades from novice to expert this book is certain to beenthusiastically embraced by any classical guitarist wishing to maximize his technique.