Accommodates one-to-one or group teaching Over 70 pieces in a range of styles including originals plus arrangements of well-known tunes Supporting creative activities covering improvisation playing by ear and accompanying using basic chords and ostinatos Detailed illustrations showing best posture and hand/finger positions CD of play-alongs for school performance or practising at home This revised edition of Enjoy Playing Guitar: Tutor Book 1 is the ultimate resource for all beginner guitarists. It introduces the basics of classical guitar playing and musical concepts through an approach that is clear progressive and carefully paced. It includes tailored solos duets and trios in a range of styles and it develops musicianship through activities in improvisation playing by ear and the art of accompanying. To consolidate learning there are helpful reminders and quizzes covering musical knowledge plus a CD with over 70 play-along tracks. Encouraging self-directed learning outside as well as during lessons this is the perfect book for today's aspiring player. About The Author   Debbie Cracknell studied guitar and piano at Trinity College of Music in London and graduated with licentiate diplomas in both instruments. Since then she has been teaching as a peripatetic guitar teacher for Buckinghamshire County Council. Her very successful series Enjoy Playing Guitar has been followed by many solo and ensemble works aimed mainly at beginners and those in the early grades.

Taking its title from Herb Ellis’ most famous composition Detour Ahead chronicles the life and music of the famed jazz guitarist. From his birth in Farmersville Texas and his early days playing rhythm in the big bands of Jimmy Dorsey and Glen Gray to his innovative work with groups like the Soft Winds Detour Ahead covers every major step of the guitarist’s life. Much attention is given to his groundbreaking work with the Oscar Peterson Trio of the 1950s his days with Ella Fitzgerald his work with the Great Guitars and his many friends in jazz. On-camera interviews include Ray Brown Charlie Byrd Benny Golson Benny Green Al Grey Lionel Hampton Gene Harris Jon Hendricks and Hank Jones. Along with modern interviews Detour Ahead features never-before-seen home movies from jazz’s golden age of Herb on tour with Dizzy Gillespie Ella Fitzgerald and others. Complete musical tunes from various live and studio venues include The Days of Wine and Roses Sweet Georgia Brown Body and Soul Georgia On My Mind Danny Boy John Brown’s Body and Wave. Sidemen include guitarists Charlie Byrd Tal Farlow Terry Holmes; bassmen Norm Cochran and Jack Hannah drummers Tommy Perkins and Ernie Durawa and pianist Sonny Gray.

Forty-Four Classic Solos by the Legendary Guitarist with a Complete Analysis-The solos of Django Reinhardt are an endless source of inspiration and amazement for any musician.In The Music Of Django Reinhardt: Forty-Four Classic Solos the author has compiled precise solotranscriptions (in notation only) as well as a thorough analysis of each. There is also a complete 'how to' section. The Music Of Django Reinhardt: Forty-Four Classic Solos contains some ofDjango's best work. It covers a period of 17 years from Django's first trio and quintet recordings to one of his last bop-influenced sessions Live at the Club St. Germain. Multiple versions ofmany solos are included to show Django's musical development over his long career. Studying the music of the master of Gypsy Jazz can help lay a solid foundation for your own sound and style.

10 Pieces for Solo Guitar. Maria Linnemann was born in Amsterdam in 1947 and grew up in England. She attended the Royal Academy of Music in London, studying conducting, piano and violin. Later, inspired by the guitarist, viola player and painter, Martin Nicolai, she turned to the guitar. Since 1971 she has lived and worked in Germany as a musician, composer and pedagogue. She has travelled through many countries and lived and worked in China for five years. Many of her compositions, numbering around 500 to date, were written on these journeys, and include works for solo guitar, guitar duets and trios, songs and chamber music. Maria Linnemann?s music is loved and much played all over the world.

This exciting revised edition of Enjoy Playing Guitar: Tutor Book 2 picks up where Book 1 left off guiding students to the next level in their musical development. Using the same clear approach and careful pacing it introduces new positions (2nd 5th 7th) techniques (left-hand slurs harmonics the barré) and musical ideas supported by tailored solos duets and trios.With extension activities to advance musicianship a repertoire section for concert pieces and a CD with over 60 play-along tracks this is an ideal one-stop resource for the developing classical guitarist.accommodates one-to-one or groupteachingover 50 pieces in a range of styles including original compositions and arrangements of popular favourites among them tunes from Harry Potter and Oliver!supporting exercises and activities covering improvisation accompanying and transpositiondetailed illustrations showing hand/finger positions and other technical pointsfun quizzes to reinforce learningCD of play-alongs for performance and practice use

A Fresh Approach to Sight-Reading-Joining the Dots offers guitarists lots of material to help build confidence and skill in sight-reading. The series brings together a range of activities to help students improve their sense of fingerboard geography helping them to read new music more quickly and easily. The five books cover the requirements for ABRSM's sight-reading tests at each of Grades 1 to 5 and include: many short characterful pieces to sight-read in a range of approachable musical styles warm-up and technical exercises to establish basic hand shapes and finger patterns within each key simple improvisation exercises in which students canexplore musical ideas and familiarize themselves further with the 'feel' of each key longer solo pieces and some duets and trios for additional sight-reading practice or to learn quickly and play through for fun

A Fresh Approach to Sight-Reading-Joining the Dots offers guitarists lots of material to help build confidence and skill in sight-reading. The series brings together a range of activities to help students improve their sense of fingerboard geography helping them to read new music more quickly and easily. The five books cover the requirements for ABRSM's sight-reading tests at each of Grades 1 to 5 and include: many short characterful pieces to sight-read in a range of approachable musical styles warm-up and technical exercises to establish basic hand shapes and finger patterns within each key simple improvisation exercises in which students canexplore musical ideas and familiarize themselves further with the 'feel' of each key longer solo pieces and some duets and trios for additional sight-reading practice or to learn quickly and play through for fun

A Fresh Approach to Sight-Reading-Joining the Dots offers guitarists lots of material to help build confidence and skill in sight-reading. The series brings together a range of activities to help students improve their sense of fingerboard geography helping them to read new music more quickly and easily. The five books cover the requirements for ABRSM's sight-reading tests at each of Grades 1 to 5 and include: many short characterful pieces to sight-read in a range of approachable musical styles warm-up and technical exercises to establish basic hand shapes and finger patterns within each key simple improvisation exercises in which students canexplore musical ideas and familiarize themselves further with the 'feel' of each key longer solo pieces and some duets and trios for additional sight-reading practice or to learn quickly and play through for fun

Throughout his career Christopher Parkening America's preeminent classical guitarist has had the opportunity to perform with many of the world's leading artists and orchestras. This folio Duets and Concertos contains many selections from those collaborations and features a wide range of musical pairings which show the guitar at its versatile best: voice and guitar guitar duets chamber music and concertos. All of the pieces included here have been edited and fingered for the guitar by Christopher Parkening and to quote Christopher himself ???No compromise has been made in requirement of technique. All of these pieces are suitable for performance by the virtuosoguitarist.??? This folio contains 35 transcriptions.

Par FRANCERIES MARC. 'Gammes et Arpèges' pour la guitare. Ce livre est un premier fruit de l'intégration de l'enseignement de la guitare dans un Conservatoire : la confrontation avec les autres techniques instrumentales, la participationdes élèves aux classes de musique de chambre _ sonates, trios, quatuors, ect., avec guitare _ ont sorti les guitaristes, dès le stade élémentaire de l'enseignement, du 'ghetto' où sétaient enlisés leurs devanciers. Ce recuel exige de ceus qui le pratiqueront, la même base de technique générale qu'ont les instrumentistes de toutes les autres spécialités traditionnelles : mouvements conjoints et disjoints, bases de toute musique, _ gammes et arpèges./ Etude / Guitare