Guitar - Intermediate

SKU: MB.31008M

Perfect binding. Blues. Book and online audio. 160 pages. Mel Bay Publications, Inc #31008M. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc (MB.31008M).

ISBN 9781513467016. 8.75x11.75 inches.

Blind Lemon Jefferson was a trail blazer, both as a singer and guitarist, but also as a commercial phenomenon, for he was the first blues musician to establish the tremendous appeal that blues, as played and sung by rural African American folk, had for the record-buying public. It is no exaggeration to say that the sales of Lemon’s records paved the way for a host of other solo rural blues musicians to record in his wake and made the record companies more willing to give other musicians a chance, in the hopes of achieving similar success. 

Lemon’s record sales weren’t what made him a great musician, though - that could only be attributed to his startlingly virtuosic guitar - playing and soulful singing, developed over years of busking, building on his natural gifts with a great deal of practice and work. In the Guitar of Blind Lemon Jefferson author John Miller presents transcriptions, in standard notation and tablature, of 22 of Lemon’s greatest performances, with an additional essay examining Lemon’s senses of time and phrasing and his picking techniques. Also included is a download link to all the original recordings. 

To present a picture of Lemon the man, noted blues researchers Alan Governar and Kip Lornell have contributed an essay focusing on Lemon’s early life, the origins of his music, and his time spent in a musical partnership with Lead Belly. Links are provided to downloadable performances of the songs in the book from which the transcriptions were made, so that you can have Lemon’s sound in your head as you learn to play his songs.

Blind Lemon Jefferson was remarkable, even in a style that abounded in great musicians, and some measure of his influence can be seen in the fact that musicians recorded in the 1960s, more than thirty years after his death, were still covering his songs and stealing guitar licks from him. The Guitar of Blind Lemon Jefferson gives you the resources needed to learn what was so special about Lemon’s music, and to experience his musical excellence from inside the music itself.

Titles include: One Dime Blues, Got The Blues, Dry Southern Blues, Big Night Blues, Rabbit Foot Blues, Shuckin' Sugar Blues, Where Shall I Be, Wartime Blues, Black Horse Blues, Prison Cell Blues, Piney Woods Money Mama, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean, He Arose From The Dead, Beggin' Back, Broke And Hungry, Bad Luck Blues, Matchbox Blues, Lemon's Worried Blues, That Crawlin' Baby Blues, Easy Rider Blues, Stocking Feet Blues and Right of Way Blues

Level 2/3 • 160 pages • Direct download link to audio files. 

Guitar

SKU: UT.CH-289

Edited by Piero Bonaguri. Saddle stitching. Piero Bonaguri Collection. Classical. Ut Orpheus #CH 289. Published by Ut Orpheus (UT.CH-289).

ISBN 9790215325852. 9 x 12 inches.

Giovanni Podera: Fantasia (In memoriam Joaquín Rodrigo)
Marco Reghezza: Nana Estrellada
Marco Simoni: Junto a Rodrigo
Marco Smaili: Fronda de la tarde (Homenaje a Joaquín Rodrigo)
Paolo Ugoletti: Fuga a 4 voci

Following the successful publication of Homenaje a Rodrigo (2015), containing four pieces by Alessandro Spazzoli – one of which was performed in the presence of the composer’s daughter, Cecilia Rodrigo, during her visit to the International Convention in Alessandria –, here is the second volume. It contains more tributes to Rodrigo written on my input by five well-known Italian and Spanish composers, two of whom are also guitarists and have therefore written the fingering for their own pieces.
Giovanni Podera plunges us into a typically Rodrigo-like atmosphere with his evocative Fantasia, while the following three compositions are full of direct quotations from pieces also for guitar by the great composer from Valencia. Thus, Marco Simoni, in his expressive Junto a Rodrigo – which also provides the title to the volume – plays with themes taken from Junto al Generalife and from Dos piezas caballerescas for a cello ensemble as well as hinting at reminiscences of Tiento antiguo. As for Marco Smaili, in his impressionistic Fronda de la tarde, he evokes quite evidently Zarabanda lejana and Invocación y Danza, but there are more hidden references to Caminos de Santiago and even to the very famous Concierto de Aranjuez. Marco Reghezza builds his heart-breaking Nana estrellada on a sequence of chords used by Rodrigo in the fantasia ¡Que buen caminito!.
On the other hand, there are no direct quotations and echoes of Rodrigo’s way of writing in the Fuga a quattro voci by Paolo Ugoletti. However it was Rodrigo himself who constructed four-part imitative passages for guitar in Pasacalle and in the Ricercare of the Fantasia para un Gentilhombre. The close polyphony of the piece by Ugoletti may be considered as a tribute to this kind of craft shown by Rodrigo who, like Ugoletti, was able to write such dense and idiomatic counterpoint without being a guitar-player.
I am pleased that this volume comes out in the imminence of the 20th anniversary of the disappearance of the illustrious Spanish composer who gave so much to the musicians – and not only to them.
(Piero Bonaguri)

Muchas gracias por este emotivo y excelente musical homenaje a mi padre. La edición es excelente y la difundiremos con todos nuestros medios por las redes sociales a nuestro alcance. Ha sido un gran trabajo por su parte, fruto de sus grandes conocimientos guitarrísticos y su devoción por Joaquín Rodrigo.  Le reitero mi gratitud y mi felicitación con el ruego transmita a los cinco compositores mi felicitación y deseos de éxito.
(Cecilia Rodrigo).

Spanish Edition Guitar

SKU: HL.114930

Metodo De Tab Para Guitarra. Guitar Tab Method. Instruction, Method, Spanish Edition. Softcover with CD. With guitar tablature. 32 pages. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.114930).

ISBN 9781480312579. UPC: 884088876326. 9.0x12.0x0.17 inches.

The revolutionary Hal Leonard Guitar Tab Method (HL00697411) is now available in a Spanish edition.

Guitar - advanced to difficult

SKU: HL.49045125

For Solo Guitar. Composed by Thomas Fellow. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. Guitar. Der 1. Band der neuen Reihe Fellow Guitar Music Collection, in der von Thomas Fellow Ausgaben mit moderner Gitarrenmusik herausgegeben werden. Classical. Softcover. 16 pages. Schott Music #ED22595. Published by Schott Music (HL.49045125).

ISBN 9790001161350. UPC: 841886028371. 9.0x12.0x0.093 inches.

The exceptional guitarist Thomas Fellow (European Guitar Quartet, Friend 'n Fellow, Hands On Strings) has dedicated a musical tribute to the fascinating figure of MEDUSA from Greek mythology.The result is a wild concert piece with folk sounds and surprising changes of time, describing intensively the intricate, literally drop-dead impressive character of Medusa.'Medusa' is the first volume of the new series 'Fellow Guitar Music Collection' in which Thomas Fellow publishes modern guitar music editions.

Guitar

SKU: GI.G-3966

Composed by Gary Daigle, Rory Cooney, and Theresa Donohoo. Sacred. Collection. With guitar chord names. GIA Publications #3966. Published by GIA Publications (GI.G-3966).

Text by various.

Hear these once and the tunes and lyrics will remain with you for a long time. One Is has become an instant success that unites the living, the unborn, the dead. Covenant Hymn is perfect for weddings and anniversaries. Now bespeaks our need for peace and justice. Four new psalm settings bring ancient words to life. Three inspired liturgical musicians combined their talents once again to create this hit. Rory Cooney wrote all the music and lyrics except for the music of Covenant Hymn which was written by Gary Daigle who also produced the recording. The incredible vocal talent of Theresa Donohoo contributes to wonderfully pleasant listening. CONTENTS: I AM FOR YOU (G-3967) • ONE IS (G-3968) • PSALM 1:ROOTS IN THE EARTH (G-3969) • IF/SI (G-3970) • PSALM 85:YOUR MERCY LIKE RAIN (G-3971) • BE THOU MY VISION (G-3973) • NOW (G-3974) • PSALM 51:CREATE ME AGAIN (G-3975) • ALL THINGS NEW (G-3976) • COVENANT HYMN (WHEREVER YOU GO) (G-3977) • MISSION SONG (G-3978) • SPIRITS SEEKING LIGHT AND BEAUTY (G-3979) .