Classical Guitar Tunes - English Folk Songs. This book presents 42 English folk songs arranged for the intermediate classic guitarist in standard notation with phrase and dynamic markings plus light fingering. The collection includes popular melodies like Sprig of Thyme, Seventeen Come Sunday, and Blow the Wind Southerly, but also lesser known but no less beautiful tunes like Cupid the Pretty Ploughboy, Dabbling in the Dew and Saucy Sailor. All the arrangements present the basic tune faithfully and simply before offering more elaborate and sophisticated variations suitable for concert performance. Without compromising their sophistication, these polyphonic arrangements are elegant and idiomatic to the guitar, all but devoid of excessive physical demands; even barré chords are kept to a minimum so the player can relax and focus on tone and interpretation. The primary objective of this collection is to draw attention to these deserving melodies, some of which are now rarely heard. Longtime fans of the genre will recognize a few songs once performed by folk-rock groups like Steeleye Span and The Fairport Convention, here presented anew for the solo classic guitar. ?It?s an excellent collection - good to play for pleasure, good for learning and consolidating rhythm, good for sight-reading. Just marvelous. It should meet a lot of needs. Gilbert Biberian. ?These are very accessible arrangements of 42 English folk tunes, some of which are familiar and many others which deserve to be better known. They are all tuneful and have interesting harmonies and rhythms in arrangements which will be well within the reach of intermediate guitarists. These fine settings would be useful pieces for a teacher looking for supplementary material and also for the performer looking for unhackneyed repertoire. They are thoughtfully presented with good fingering and phrasing, with idiomatic guitar writing and interesting harmonies. Congratulations to Peter Worley for presenting this compendium of gems from a lesser known tradition.? Gerald Garcia

The Complete Idiot's Guide songbooks are designed to get novice guitarists playing immediately, and playing the songs that inspired them to pick up a guitar in the first place. Each song in The Complete Idiot's Guide books is preceded by a lesson that focuses on the most important technical and musical features. Fingerings, patterns, and techniques are discussed and broken down to help make learning smooth and simple. Most guitar songs are relatively easy to play, and the arrangements in these books are simplified just enough to show those core, natural guitar parts without being overcomplicated, just the way a friend might show another how to play a song one-on-one. Learning is made even simpler with each song written in standard music notation plus TAB and guitar chord diagrams. Learning hit rock songs was never so easy! Pick up The Complete Idiot's Guide to Rock Guitar Songs and learn all 30 tunes from acclaimed artists like Cream, AC ,DC, Guns N' Roses, Jimi Hendrix, Green Day and many more. After Midnight; All Along The Watchtower; American Idiot; Back In Black; Bad Company; Bad To The Bone; Boulevard Of Broken Dreams; Casey Jones; China Grove; Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap; Dr. Feelgood; Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile); For What It's Worth; Gimme Some Lovin'; The House Of The Rising Sun; How You Remind Me; In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida; Jump; Layla; Long Train Runnin'; Mama Told Me Not To Come; Panama; Peter Gunn; The Reason; Sunshine Of Your Love; Sweet Child O' Mine; Truckin'; Welcome To The Jungle; When I Come Around; Wild Night.

This matching songbook features solo guitar transcriptions from the Grammy-winning CD which showcases a dozen of the world's greatest acoustic guitarists performing beloved melodies of legendary composer Henry Mancini.Here are solo guitar transcriptions of: Baby Elephant Walk (William Coulter) • Charade (Aaron Stang) • Days of Wine and Roses (David Cullen) • Dear Heart (Wayne Johnson) • It's Easy to Say (Doug Smith) • Moon River (Ed Gerhard) • Peter Gunn (Pat Donohue) • The Pink Panther (Laurence Juber) • and manymore!Includes a bonus masterclass CD with performance tips by the artists.

Tracing the history of blues guitar from Robert Johnson through Eric Clapton John Lee Hooker Stevie Ray Vaughan Jimi Hendrix Peter Green and many more Neville Marten explains each player\'s definitive playing techniques showing how to emulate their solos and develop their tricks to expand your own musical vocaulary. Playing styles personal trademarks and characteristics are explained and illustrated clearly in notation and tab as well as played in full on the CD. The CD includes two licks from each player a solo using those licks and finally a jam track which you can play along with eventually creating your own solo. A short biography of each player assessestheir historical position in the genre\'s development while the musical traditions from generation are examined.